13-03-2017 05:44 via ktoo.org

A judge orders one Syrian family’s asylum request be processed

A federal judge temporarily blocked enforcement of President Trump’s revised travel ban on Friday, but only as it applies to a family of Syrian asylum seekers.
The ruling, issued by U.S. District Court Judge William M. Conley, said the wife and 3-year-old daughter of a Syrian Muslim man living in Wisconsin faced the possibility of “suffering irreparable harm” if the executive order forced them to remain in Aleppo. It marks the first legal setback for Trump’s revised order
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