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US under Trump Series: This is why courts would fail to uphold restrictions on Trump’s travel ban

Backlashes are rising in the U.S. courts as four federal judges issued rulings to scale back the travel ban issued by the President Donald Trump last weekend. President Trump halted arrival of immigrants from seven Muslim-dominated countries in the war-torn region of the Middle East and North Africa.

However, the President’s order is likely to pass the test of the courtrooms, despite all the outrages and protests crying that these orders defy the American constitution. The Federal immigration law, section 1182(f) says, Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem appropriate.

In addition to that, the ban can’t be viewed as a “Muslim ban”, since the vast majority of the Muslims around the world are not affected by the ban on these seven countries and the President has broad authority to exclude non-citizens from coming into the United States.

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