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Friday 30 June 2017
Less chaos expected as new travel ban takes effect

By MATTHEW LEE of the groups challenging
ALICIA A. CALDWELL the ban, called the new
Associated Press criteria “extremely restric-
WASHINGTON (AP) — A tive,” ‘’arbitrary” in their ex-
scaled-back version of clusions and designed to
President Donald Trump’s “disparage and condemn
travel ban took effect Muslims.”
Thursday evening, stripped Much of the confusion in
of provisions that brought January, when Trump’s first
protests and chaos at air- ban took effect, resulted
ports worldwide in January from travelers with previ-
yet still likely to generate a ously approved visas being
new round of court fights. kept off flights or barred en-
The new rules, the product try on arrival in the United
of months of legal wran- States. Immigration officials
gling, aren’t so much an were instructed Thursday
outright ban as a tighten- not to block anyone with
ing of already-tough visa valid travel documents
policies affecting citizens and otherwise eligible to
from six Muslim-majority visit the United States.
countries. Refugees are Karen Tumlin, legal director
covered, too. of the National Immigra-
Administration officials had tion Law Center, said the
predicted that implemen- Travelers make their way up the arrival ramp at the Tom Bradley International Terminal at the Los rules “would slam the door
tation, which began at 8 Angeles International Airport Thursday, June 29, 2017, in Los Angeles. After months of wrangling, shut on so many who have
p.m. EDT would be orderly. tighter restrictions on travel to the U.S. from six mostly Muslim nations took effect Thursday evening waited for months or years
Customs and Border Pro- after the Supreme Court gave its go-ahead for a limited version of President Donald Trump’s plans to be reunited with their
tection spokesman Dan for a ban. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) families.
Hetlage said his agency Trump, who made a tough
expected “business as usu- would make the United need new visas will now most of the countries have approach to immigration a
al at our ports of entry.” States safer. have to prove a close fam- the means for leisure travel, cornerstone of his election
Yet amid vows from im- Under the temporary rules, ily relationship or an existing and those that do already campaign, issued a ban
migration and refugee citizens from Syria, Sudan, relationship with an entity face intensive screenings on travelers from the six
advocates to challenge Somalia, Libya, Iran and Ye- like a school or business in before being issued visas. countries, plus Iraq, shortly
the new requirements, men who already have vi- the U.S. Still, human rights groups after taking office in Janu-
the administration some- sas will be allowed into the It’s unclear to what de- on Thursday girded for new ary. That ban also blocked
times struggled to explain United States. But people gree the new rules will af- legal battles. The American refugees from any country.
how the new requirements from those countries who fect travel. Few people in Civil Liberties Union, one q

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