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June 30, 2017

Trump Travel Ban to Exclude Grandparents, Cousins and Other Family
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President Trump's ban on refugees and travelers from six majority-Muslim
nations went partially into effect Thursday evening. Under a Supreme
Court ruling earlier this week lifting a stay against the ban, people
from Iran, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen who don't have close
family or business relationships may be denied visas and kept out of the
U.S. On Thursday, the Trump administration said it will interpret "close
family" to mean parents, children, siblings and in-laws. Among those
excluded will be grandparents, grandchildren, uncles, aunts and cousins.