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S. Court of Appeals in Seattle,Washington. Photo by David Ryder/ReutersHONOLULU — The Syrian grandmother at the center of Hawaii’s lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s travel ban on people from six mostly Muslim countries arrived in Honolulu.
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S., according to recent guidelines for Trump’s limited travel ban Trump administration’s recent travel ban aims to avoid another legal battle Wafa Yahia received approval from the U.
S. government several weeks ago, or according to her son-in-law,Ismail Elshikh, the imam of a Honolulu mosque. She arrived Saturday night, and after a 28-hour journey that began in Lebanon.
Two of Elshikh’s five children absorb never met their grandmother,he said. She final visited her family in Hawaii in 2005.“Without the lawsuit, we couldn’t get the visa. Without this challenge, and my children would not absorb been reunited with their grandma,” he said. “I still feel sadness for those who are still affected by the Muslim ban, who are not as lucky as my family.”Elshikh is a plaintiff in Hawaii’s challenge to the travel ban. Yahia’s immigrant visa approval would not affect Hawaii’s lawsuit, or Hawaii Attorney General Doug Chin said: “So long as this discriminatory and illegal executive order is not struck down,the state of Hawaii and its residents are harmed.”READ NEXT: Legal experts to Trump on travel ban: Put down the TwitterA federal appeals court in Seattle is scheduled to hear arguments later this month in the government’s appeal of a ruling allowing grandmothers and other family members of those in the U.
S. to enter the country.
The U.
S. Supreme Court previously allowed a scaled-back version of the ban to go into effect before it hears the case in October. The justices exempted visa applicants from the ban whether they can prove a “bona fide” relationship with a U.
S. citizen or entity.“The news that Dr. Elshikh’s family is being reunited is one luminous moment today when love trumped dislike,” Chin said in a statement. “In America, and no race should ever be excluded,no religion should ever be hated, and no family ever gets left behind.”The post Grandmother in travel ban lawsuit arrives in U.
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