Posted on 07/14/2017 12:31:43 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse
A federal judge in Honolulu has expanded the Trump administration’s list of family relationships needed by people seeking new visas from six mostly Muslim countries to avoid a travel ban.
U.S. District Court Judge Derrick Watson ruled today that the travel ban exemptions should include grandparents, grandchildren, uncles, aunts and other relatives.
President Donald Trump’s travel ban, which was partially allowed by the U.S. Supreme Court, did not include grandparents, grandchildren and other relations considered “bona-fide” family relationships to be granted an exemption to the ban. The administration said a bona fide relationship would be a parent, spouse, fiance, son, daughter, son-in-law, daughter-in-law or sibling already in the United States.
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Welll, Our First Hawaiian (Truly Born in the US, that is) President has ruled.. All hail President Watson.
yes i understand, but isn’t htere a judge higher than him- not the SC- that can over-rule him?
I would ignore him completely.
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