The Supreme Court upheld a stay Tuesday that will prevent refugees with assurances from U.S. resettlement agencies from entering the country. The AP writes:
The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to maintain its restrictive policy on refugees.
The justices on Tuesday agreed to an administration request to block a lower court ruling that would have eased the refugee ban and allowed up to 24,000 refugees to enter the country before the end of October.
The order was not the court’s last word on the travel policy that Trump first rolled out in January. The justices are scheduled to hear arguments on Oct. 10 on the legality of the bans on travelers from six mostly Muslim countries and refugees anywhere in the world.
However, it's unclear whether the high court will even issue a ruling on the refugee matter before the 120-day refugee ban is due to expire on October 27.
The administration asked the high court to block exemptions to the refugee ban that were put in place by a federal court ruling in Hawaii and upheld by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Government lawyers, however, dropped the request that the ban cover what the court defined as “close familial relationships” such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins of U.S. citizens.