The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled in favor of the third version of President Trump鈥檚 travel ban. This ban, citing , suspends entry to immigrants from many Muslim-majority countries, earning the colloquial title of 鈥淢uslim Ban.鈥
Justice Breyer鈥檚 , cited that legal exemptions in the ban, including refugees and asylum seekers, weren鈥檛 working, thereby making the travel ban unconstitutional. Specifically, he referenced the 15,000 refugees from Syria who arrived in the U.S. in 2016, and the dramatic drop to only 13 Syrian refugees in the first half of 2018.
Though the numbers are not yet in for 2018, Muslim refugee seekers in the U.S. have been up over the past 5 years, with that number expected to dramatically drop in 2018 due to this new statute.
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