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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 351

Trump travel ban

Dahouk Idriss shows a page on her passport during an interview with AFP at her house in the Syrian capital Damascus on January 16, 2021. (Photo by LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)
January 19, 2021, 11:41 am
After years of waiting to see their children, Mideast moms count days to Biden
US president-elect has vowed to overturn travel ban from Muslim-majority countries; Syrian woman: ‘I’m probably more impatient for Biden to become president than he is himself’
By Maher Al Mounes
A passenger wears a protective mask at Adolfo Suarez-Barajas international airport on the outskirts of Madrid, Spain, March 11, 2020. (Bernat Armangue/AP)
March 12, 2020, 1:18 pm
Locked out: Europeans grapple with new US travel ban
Trump administration order to block arrivals from ‘Schengen Area’ of Europe means North America is now off-limits to citizens of dozens of countries
By John Leicester
President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari in the Rose Garden of the White House, Monday, April 30, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
January 31, 2020, 11:20 pm
Trump limits immigration from 6 countries in election-year push
US president to impose new visa restrictions on citizens of Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Eritrea, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania, but stops short of total travel ban
By Colleen Long and NOMAAN MERCHANT
US President Donald Trump gestures after speaking during the Republican Jewish Coalition's annual leadership meeting at The Venetian Las Vegas, April 6, 2019. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images/via JTA)
April 12, 2019, 2:54 pm
18 Jewish groups urge Congress to pass bill to end Trump’s travel ban
After Democratic members introduce legislation aimed at repealing president’s immigration efforts, liberal groups led by HIAS send letter stating they stand by ‘Muslim neighbors’
By Josefin Dolsten
In this December 2018 photo released by the Council on American Islamic Relations, Sacramento Valley, Shaima Swileh, of Yemen, holds her dying 2-year old son Abdullah Hassan at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital in Oakland, California, USA. (Council on American Islamic Relations, Sacramento Valley via AP)
December 30, 2018, 3:51 pm
Boy whose Yemeni mom fought US travel ban to see him dies
Abdullah Hassan, 2, laid to rest days after his mother wins year-long legal battle to bid him final farewell
By DAISY NGUYEN
This recent but undated photo, released Dec. 17, 2018, by the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Sacramento, Calif., shows Ali Hassan kissing his dying 2-year-old son Abdullah in a Sacramento hospital (Council on American-Islamic Relations via AP)
December 19, 2018, 9:56 am
Yemeni mom to fly to US to give dying 2-year-old son a kiss
After a year-long battle, Shaima Swileh, barred from entry under Trump travel ban, can visit her child who is undergoing treatment for a genetic brain disorder
By JULIE WATSON
Nadia Batool Bokhari, a Pakistani journalist forced to seek refuge in the United States because of her job. (Courtesy)
December 3, 2018, 2:34 am
Female Muslim journalist persecuted in Pakistan reboots life in the US with HIAS
The onetime Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society applies humanitarian Jewish values to ‘strangers’ as a powerful mix of climate change and conflict drive migration to new heights
By Cathryn J. Prince
Illustrative: Activists march and rally against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Trump administration's immigration policies, across the street from the ICE offices at Federal Plaza, June 29, 2018 in New York City. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)
June 30, 2018, 5:21 pm
Over 600 marches underway across US over Trump immigration policy
Thousands of protesters take to the streets, motivated by accounts in recent weeks of children separated from their parents at the US-Mexico border
By AP
Protesters hold signs during a demonstration against President Donald Trump's revised travel ban outside a federal courthouse in Seattle, May 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
June 26, 2018, 8:40 pm
Jewish groups decry Supreme Court upholding of Trump travel ban
Leading immigrant rights organization HIAS expresses ‘disappointment’; Reform Jewish leader calls on Congress to ‘push back against offensive and dangerous policy’
By JTA and ToI Staff
Poster sized enlargements of passports marked as "rejected" by United States Immigration are on display during an anti-Muslim ban rally as the Supreme Court hears arguments about whether US President Donald Trump's ban on travelers from several mostly Muslim countries violates immigration law or the Constitution, April 25, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
June 26, 2018, 7:33 pm
Court upholds Trump travel ban, rejects discrimination claim
Ruling passes on a 5-4 decision, with majority opinion noting US presidents have substantial power to regulate immigration, while rejecting allegation of anti-Muslim bias
By Mark Sherman
In this Dec. 2, 2016 file photo, US Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., listens during a forum on the future of the Democratic Party, in Denver (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
June 6, 2018, 7:41 am
First Muslim in Congress wants to take on Trump in court
Keith Ellison files to run for Minnesota attorney general, saying it was state legal officials who ‘led the fight against the Muslim ban’
By Kyle Potter
People gather to protest US President Donald Trump's travel ban in front of the US Supreme Court, on April 25, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images/AFP)
May 2, 2018, 6:39 am
ADL report: 90% of Islamist attacks in US since 2002 were homegrown, not foreign
Organization says findings call into question Trump administration’s assertions on the dangers posed by Muslim immigrants and visitors
By ToI Staff
US Supreme Court Associate Justice Elena Kagan participates in a discussion at the George Washington University Law School, September 13, 2016 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images via JTA)
April 26, 2018, 3:05 am
US Jewish justice: Imagine if a travel ban targeted Israelis
In hypothetical challenge during oral arguments, Elena Kagan raises example of a US president who is a ‘vehement anti-Semite’
By JTA
Poster sized enlargements of passports marked as "rejected" by United States Immigration are on display during an anti-Muslim ban rally as the Supreme Court hears arguments about whether US President Donald Trump's ban on travelers from several mostly Muslim countries violates immigration law or the Constitution, April 25, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
April 26, 2018, 1:00 am
Trump’s travel ban likely to be upheld, justices indicate
Hearings on controversial order open to packed court; conservative-leaning judges appear unmoved by challengers’ arguments
By Mark Sherman
Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) president Morton A. Klein (Joseph Savetsky/courtesy of ZOA)
April 5, 2018, 11:00 am
Jewish group calls on Supreme Court to uphold Trump travel ban
Zionist Organization of America says countries listed on order are ‘marked by combat zones and infested with terrorist groups and sympathizers’
By JTA
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