Well, we’ve got some progress over here, folks.
Hours after a federal judge in Washington placed a nationwide, temporary stay on Donald Trump’s Muslim ban, the State Department has reportedly reinstated the visas that were affected by the ban.
In order to comply with the ban, as was reported late on Friday, the State Department “provisionally revoked” the visas for at least 60,000 people from the seven Muslim majority countries placed under Trump’s ban.
Now, however, the Associated Press is reporting that the State Department, acting at the direction of the Justice Department, has reinstated those visas on account of Washington’s Federal Judge Gobart’s ruling.
Trump’s ban was placed on travel to the United States from the seven Muslim majority countries of Iraq, Iran, Somalia, Yemen, Sudan, Libya, and Syria. In addition, Trump ordered the re-settlement of Syrian refugees in the United States to be halted.
The Trump admin claimed that this ban was necessary for protecting national security, but they still haven’t produced any evidence backing up that claim. No terror attack has been carried out on U.S. soil by individuals from the seven countries that Trump targeted at any time in the past several decades.
It is not immediately clear what the fate is of the component to Trump’s ban that forbids Syrian refugee resettlement in the United States. The Trump admin has announced plans to challenge Judge Gobart’s stay on the ban.
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