Federal judge in Hawaii declines to clarify scope of Trump travel ban

International travelers arrive in Virginia.
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On Thursday, a federal judge in Hawaii denied a motion filed by the state seeking to clarify who is allowed to enter the United States under President Trump's partially reinstated travel ban.

Last week, the Supreme Court ruled that part of Trump's ban — which blocks entry over the next three months of people from six majority-Muslim countries and suspends the refugee resettlement program for six months — could be enforced, unless the people trying to get visas had a "bona fide relationship" with a person or entity in the United States. The Trump administration does not consider grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, and nephews "bona fide" relatives, and the state of Hawaii argued that the administration is wrong to exclude these relations from the list of close family members.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.