A federal judge on Friday blocked President
Donald Trump's administration from enforcing his new travel ban against a
Syrian family looking to escape their war-torn homeland by fleeing to
Wisconsin.
The ruling
likely is the first by a judge since Trump issued a revised travel ban on
Monday, according to a spokesman for the Washington state attorney general, who
has led states challenging the ban.
A Syrian Muslim man who was granted asylum
and settled in Wisconsin has been working since last year to win U.S.
government approval for his wife and 3-year-old daughter to leave the
devastated city of Aleppo and join him here.
The man, who is not identified because of
fears for his family's safety, filed a federal lawsuit in Madison in February
alleging Trump's first travel ban had wrongly stopped the visa process for his
family.
U.S. District Judge William Conley set that
challenge aside after a federal judge in Washington state blocked the entire
Trump travel order.
Judge Conley
granted that request, saying there were daily threats to the Syrian man's wife
and child that could cause "irreparable harm." He issued a temporary
restraining order barring enforcement against the family. The order doesn't
block the entire travel ban. It simply prevents Trump's administration from
enforcing it against this family pending a March 21 hearing. Read the fullstory here
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