On June 26, 2018, the US Supreme Court upheld the Trump Administration’s third travel ban and, more significantly, affirmed the president’s broad authority to restrict immigration by Executive Order (EO). In Trump v. Hawaii, the Court found that the EO was within the president’s authority under an Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) provision that gives the president the ability to restrict the entry of foreign nationals into the US whenever the president finds that such entry “would be detrimental to the interests of the United States.”

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