Federal judge weakens Trump travel ban


US President Donald Trump’s travel ban has been weakened by a federal judge, who ruled that grandparents and relatives should be exempted from the ban. – EPA pic, July 14, 2017.

A US federal judge weakened the terms of the Trump administration’s controversial travel ban on visitors from six majority-Muslim countries, dealing another legal setback to the government.

Judge Derrick Watson in Hawaii ruled yesterday that grandparents and some other relatives of people in the United States should be exempt from the clampdown, saying the terms of the ban as enforced defied common sense.


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