He Left the U.S. for an Internship. Trump’s Travel Ban Made It Impossible to Return

He left the U.S. for an internship. Trump’s travel ban made it impossible to return

The first time Patrick Thaw saw his University of Michigan friends together since sophomore year ended was bittersweet. They were starting a new semester in Ann Arbor, while he was FaceTiming in from Singapore, stranded half a world away. One day last June he was interviewing to renew his U.S. student visa, and the next his world was turned upside down by President Trump’s travel ban on people from 12 countries, including Thaw’s native Myanmar. …

Lawsuit challenges Trump’s travel ban on 39 nations

The lawsuit against secretary of state Marco Rubio and the state department at large alleges the administration’s suspension of visa processing for nationals of near 40 countries under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) is unlawful.   The plaintiffs argue the INA allows the president to restrict immigrants from entering the US but that it does not permit the state department to halt visa processing “because of the person’s race, sex, nati…