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2017-03-11 Home Front: Politix

Madison, WI Judge: Revised Trump ban cannot be enforced on Syrian family

[AP] MADISON, Wis. - A federal judge on Friday blocked President Donald Trump's administration from enforcing his new travel ban against a Syrian family looking to escape their war-torn homeland by fleeing to Wisconsin.

The ruling likely is the first by a judge since Trump issued a revised travel ban on Monday, according to a spokesman for the Washington state attorney general, who has led states challenging the ban.

A Syrian Muslim man who was granted asylum and settled in Wisconsin has been working since last year to win U.S. government approval for his wife and 3-year-old daughter to leave the devastated city of Aleppo and join him here. The man, who is not identified because of fears for his family's safety, filed a federal lawsuit in Madison in February alleging Trump's first travel ban had wrongly stopped the visa process for his family. U.S. District Judge William Conley set that challenge aside after a federal judge in Washington state blocked the entire Trump travel order.

Trump signed a new executive order on Monday. The Syrian man filed a new complaint on Friday afternoon, alleging the new order is still an anti-Muslim ban that violates his freedom of religion and right to due process. He asked Conley to block its enforcement against his family.

Judge Conley granted that request, saying there were daily threats to the Syrian man's wife and child that could cause "irreparable harm." He issued a temporary restraining order barring enforcement against the family. The order doesn't block the entire travel ban. It simply prevents Trump's administration from enforcing it against this family pending a March 21 hearing.

After the Trump ban was blocked the first time, the approval process restarted for the Syrian family and they're now preparing to travel to Jordan for visa interviews at the U.S. embassy, the last step before U.S. customs officials decide whether to issue them visas. But the family doesn't have dates for the interviews yet and Trump's new travel ban goes into effect March 16, stirring fears that the process could halt again before visas are issued, according to the Syrian man's attorneys.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-03-11 01:21|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top
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#1 very simply - "your interviews are scheduled for March 10, 2020"

Posted by Frank G 2017-03-11 06:49|| 2017-03-11 06:49|| Front Page Top

#2 That may be why AG Sessions asks remaining 46 US attorneys to resign. We need attorneys who can make effective arguments, instead of wimpy arguments like the former administration attorneys are wont to do.

Posted by Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-03-11 06:51|| 2017-03-11 06:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Actually, Trump should imitate Andrew Jackson.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-03-11 07:16|| 2017-03-11 07:16|| Front Page Top

#4 No one in a republic or a democracy should be able to sit in a public office for life.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-03-11 08:31|| 2017-03-11 08:31|| Front Page Top

#5 Not sure why the ban would be applied to someone who is already here. I'm sure the judge knows.

Posted by Bobby 2017-03-11 10:48|| 2017-03-11 10:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Bobby, the ban doesn't apply to the guy, it's for his wife and child who he hope to have come and join him in America.

Posted by Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-03-11 11:53|| 2017-03-11 11:53|| Front Page Top

#7 A Syrian Muslim man who was granted asylum and settled in Wisconsin has been working since last year (to win U.S. government approval for his wife and 3-year-old daughter)

Almost had me there, AP - I thought this guy had a job!

Posted by Raj 2017-03-11 11:56|| 2017-03-11 11:56|| Front Page Top

#8 Obama selected Judge Conley has been the lawfare 'go to guy' for many liberal causes, including a major Planned Parenthood ruling.

In that one, he struck down the new Wisconsin law requiring doctors who perform abortions have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of their clinic.

Plus, he was a long-time member (maybe still is) of the Southern Poverty Law Institute.

No more need be said.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2017-03-11 16:16|| 2017-03-11 16:16|| Front Page Top

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