…[E]fforts to define and manipulate the definition of
“family” in immigration matters are not new. For more than 100 years the
government has done so, often reflecting political exigency and racial bias
rather than the real needs and desires of families.
By Mae Ngai, New York Times
July 19, 2017
The Trump administration lost another round on Wednesday in
its continuing legal battle over its travel ban against people from six
majority-Muslim countries and all refugees. The Supreme Court let stand —
pending full review of the ban in October — a Federal District Court ruling in
Hawaii that included grandparents and other close relatives of those in the
United States within the scope of exemptions to the ban.
Last month, the Supreme Court authorized the administration
to implement the ban but instructed the government to exempt people with “bona
fide” relationships to relatives and institutions (like employers and
universities) in the United States. The State Department issued guidelines that
narrowly defined those family relations as spouses, parents and parents-in-law,
children and siblings. It excluded grandparents, aunts and uncles, nephews and
nieces, and brothers- and sisters-in-law. It also excluded all refugees.[…]
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