Attorneys in Hawaii first to file lawsuit against travel ban
Q. Which US state was the first to sue President Trump over the revised travel ban?- Published on 10 Mar 17a. Hawaii
b. California
c. Illinois
d. None of the above
ANSWER: Hawaii
Attorneys for the state filed the lawsuit Wednesday in federal court in Honolulu.
The state had previously sued over U.S. President Donald Trump’s initial travel ban, but that lawsuit was put on hold while other cases played out across the country.
The revised executive order bars new visas for people from six predominantly Muslim countries and temporarily shuts down the US refugee program.
It doesn’t apply to travellers who already have visas.
Twenty percent of the people are foreign-born, 100,000 are non-citizens and 20 percent of the labor force is foreign-born in Hawaii.
Hawaii find the idea of a travel ban based on nationality distasteful because they remember when Japanese Americans were sent to internment camps during World War II.
Hawaii was the site of one of these camps.
US District Judge Derrick Watson granted the state’s request to continue with the case and set a hearing for March 15 the day before Mr. Trump’s order is due to go into effect.
It bars new visas for people from the six predominantly Muslim countries and temporarily shuts down the U.S. refugee program.
The order affects people from Iran, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen and Libya. It does not apply to travellers who already have visas.
While Hawaii is the first to sue to stop the revised ban, the restraining order is still in place and could apply to the new one, too.
