Muslim travel ban
Justices uphold refugee ban but say grandparents still OK
By Jerome Socolovsky — July 19, 2017
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says the Trump administration can strictly enforce its ban on refugees, but is leaving in place a weakened travel ban that includes grandparents among relatives who can help visitors from six mostly Muslim countries get into the U.S.
Unitarian Universalists elect first woman president
By Adelle M. Banks — June 27, 2017
(RNS) One of her first acts as president was to decry the Supreme Court decision permitting partial enforcement of President Trump's travel ban.
US top court set to rule on religious rights; travel ban looms
By Reuters — June 25, 2017
WASHINGTON (Reuters) The ruling in Trinity Lutheran v. Comer potentially could narrow the separation of church and state.
The travel ban has been particularly harsh on Shiite Muslims
By Faiyaz Jaffer — May 26, 2017
NEW YORK (RNS) The Trump administration's attempts to ban travel to the U.S. by Muslims has had a severe and repugnant impact on Shiite Muslims in particular.
Why Trump’s travel ban deserved another thumping
By Mark Silk — May 26, 2017
The President has had his 90 days and then some.
His fellowship cut short by travel ban, Iranian dissident returns to US
By Yonat Shimron — February 17, 2017
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (RNS) Mohsen Kadivar is no stranger to political turmoil. As an outspoken critic of Iran’s hard-line clerical leadership, he spent 18 months in Tehran’s infamous Evin Prison. But he didn't expect such turbulence in the United States.
Muslim students join lawsuits against Trump
By Zachary Siegel — February 16, 2017
LOS ANGELES (RNS) For Hadil Mansoor Al-Mowafak, a 20-year-old international affairs student at Stanford University, the president’s executive order meant that if she went to see her husband in Yemen, she risked not being able to return.
Vietnamese refugee priest to Trump: Give my citizenship to a Syrian
By David Gibson — February 11, 2017
(RNS) The Catholic priest, who fled to the U.S. from war-torn Vietnam as a youth, wrote the president asking that his citizenship be given to a refugee barred under Trump’s Muslim travel ban.
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