{"id":13353,"date":"2017-06-29T09:01:27","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T16:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/?p=13353"},"modified":"2017-06-29T09:09:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T16:09:59","slug":"comment-on-muslim-ban-guidance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/2017\/06\/29\/comment-on-muslim-ban-guidance\/","title":{"rendered":"Comment on Reported Guidance for Trump Muslim Ban Implementation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n<\/strong>June 29, 2017<\/p>\n

CONTACT
\n<\/strong>Email: media@nilc.org<\/a>
\nJuan Gastelum, 213-375-3149
\nHayley Burgess, 202-384-1279<\/p>\n

Comment on Reported Guidance for Trump Muslim Ban Implementation<\/h1>\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 The federal government has reportedly issued extremely restrictive guidance on how it plans to implement a portion of President Trump\u2019s Muslim ban.<\/p>\n

The ban had been blocked by court orders, but on Monday the Supreme Court issued a ruling allowing the government to move forward with a narrowed portion of the ban starting today.<\/p>\n

As modified by the Supreme Court, the federal court orders governing the ban provide that the government may not apply either the 90-day ban on nationals of six countries or the 120-day ban on refugees to any individual who can credibly claim a \u201cbona fide relationship\u201d with a person or entity in the United States.<\/p>\n

Reports indicate, however, that the guidance arbitrarily refuses to treat certain categories of familial relationships (grandparents, grandchildren, uncles, aunts, cousins, fianc\u00e9s,\u00a0fianc\u00e9es, and more) as \u201cbona fide\u201d relationships.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt remains clear that President Trump\u2019s purpose is to disparage and condemn Muslims. The reported guidance does not comport with the Supreme Court\u2019s order, is arbitrary, and is not tied to any legitimate government purpose,\u201d said Omar Jadwat, director of the ACLU\u2019s Immigrants\u2019 Rights Project.<\/p>\n

The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Maryland, and National Immigration Law Center are challenging the ban on behalf of HIAS, the International Refugee Assistance Project, the Middle East Studies Association, and individuals affected by the ban.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis reported guidance would slam the door shut on so many who have waited for months or years to be reunited with their families. Those engaged to be married, for example, have been cruelly left out. This reported guidance should leave no doubt that the Trump administration will exploit any opportunity to advance its xenophobic agenda,\u201d said Karen Tumlin, legal director at the National Immigration Law Center.<\/p>\n

More information is available at www.nilc.org\/irap-v-trump\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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[vc_row el_class=”holder” css=”.vc_custom_1444345515294{margin-top: -90px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 29, 2017 CONTACT Email: media@nilc.org Juan Gastelum, 213-375-3149 Hayley Burgess, 202-384-1279 Comment on Reported Guidance for Trump Muslim Ban Implementation WASHINGTON \u2014 The federal government has reportedly issued extremely restrictive guidance on how it plans to implement a portion of President Trump\u2019s Muslim ban. The ban […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13353"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13356,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13353\/revisions\/13356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}