(Hill) The Trump administration is facing the first legal challenge to its travel ban on nationals from five Muslim-majority countries following the recent Supreme Court ruling that upheld the ban.
Muslim Advocates, Lotfi Legal LLC, the Immigrant Advocacy & Litigation Center PLLC and Public Counsel have filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of 36 people whose visa applications they say were wrongfully denied or stalled by the administration.
The immigrant groups note that President Trump’s proclamation, which was upheld by the high court in June, provides for case-by-case waivers from the ban for people who can demonstrate certain criteria: that a denial would cause undue hardship, that they are not a threat to national security and that it would be in the nation’s interest to let them enter.
