Challenges likely to follow Trump's travel ban, migration expert says

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Challenges likely to follow Trump's travel ban, migration expert says  Challenges against President Donald Trump's new sweeping travel ban are likely to hit the courts soon, a legal expert said on June 5, 2025. Trump signed a proclamation the day before barring citizens of 12 countries from entering the US starting on June 9, 2025, asserting that the restrictions were necessary to protect against 'foreign terrorists.' 'It is terrible that we are closing routes to legal immigration. I expect that this will be challenged in the courts,' said Katerina Linos, a Heyman professor of law and co-director of the Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law at UC Berkeley Law in California who has researched migration extensively.  REUTERS VIDEO  Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe  Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net     Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion    Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital    Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer  Stitcher: https://tmt.ph/stitcher Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein   #TheManilaTimes #WorldNews #Trump

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00:00I am disappointed but not shocked. It is terrible that we are closing routes to

00:16legal immigration. I expect that this will be challenged in the courts. Based

00:26on the prior travel bans, there will be an emphasis on the way countries were

00:33included and excluded. Why is Afghanistan first on the list, for example? And there

00:40will be challenges based on the process by which individuals with ties to the U.S.

00:46can seek waivers and other exemptions from these overall bans. The Supreme

00:54Court made different decisions based on the facts of the different travel bans

01:00and I believe a fact-specific inquiry is likely to follow when this is

01:05challenged before lower courts and ultimately the Supreme Court. Let me

01:10start by saying that it's a different list of countries. So the version that the

01:16Supreme Court allowed to go forward excluded some of the countries initially

01:20listed, I expect this Supreme Court, these lower courts, to start looking at the

01:25justifications for particular countries. I personally am deeply concerned, indeed

01:31ashamed, that the first country on that list is Afghanistan. I think that we have

01:38behaved in a variety of ways that are unacceptable and by denying people who

01:49supported the U.S. and their families what we promised them, we are not behaving in an

01:59acceptable or responsible way. So I believe the first scrutiny will be on who is

02:03included and for what reasons, and then we will need to think a lot about who should

02:09be able to petition to be exempt from this very broad-ranging measure. Misinformation is a major problem for everyone,

02:18for everyone, but it is especially so for migrants and refugees because there is this

02:24industry, the smuggling industry, that has a business model that's often reliant on

02:30misinformation and competes with governments that often don't communicate in the

02:35language of migrants. So governments are often not in a position to communicate in

02:44the correct languages, in a trustworthy manner. So I think the misinformation

02:49environment will only facilitate risky and unauthorized smuggling. This is why closing

02:59down legal pathways, closing down the ability of the U.S. to vet very, very extensively who

03:05comes in and who comes, who does not, is so disappointing to me.

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