Judge tweaks Trump’s travel ban, saying grandparents are family too
A federal judge in Hawaii has exempted grandparents, grandchildren and other relatives of people in the US from the Trump administration’s travel ban targeting travelers from six majority-Muslim countries. The decision, by Judge Derrick Watson on Thursday, was a victory for opponents of the ban, who say it singles out Muslims in violation of the US constitution. The Trump administration insists the restrictions are necessary to keep out terrorists. The US supreme court had allowed part of the ban to go into effect on June 29, putting an end, at least temporarily, to five months of skirmishes in the lower courts. Specifically, the court allowed a 90-day ban on visitors from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen, and a 120-day ban on refugees, with exceptions for people with "close family relationships" in the US. The Trump administration defined this to mean parents, spouses, children, sons- and daughters-in-law, siblings and step- and half-siblings. But Watson found that "the...
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