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		</div><p>Hawaii has become the first US state to file a lawsuit against President Donald Trump&#8217;s revised travel ban, saying the order will harm its Muslim population, tourism and foreign students.</p>
<p>Lawyers for the state filed the lawsuit against the US government in federal court in Honolulu on Wednesday.</p>
<p>The state had previously sued over Mr Trump&#8217;s initial travel ban, but that lawsuit was put on hold while other cases played out across the country.</p>
<p>The revised executive order, which comes into effect on March 16, bars new visas for people from six predominantly Muslim countries and temporarily shuts down the US refugee programme.</p>
<p>It does not apply to travellers who already have visas.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;Hawaii is special in that it has always been non-discriminatory in both its history and constitution,&#8221;</i> Attorney General Douglas Chin said.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;Twenty percent of the people are foreign-born, 100,000 are non-citizens and 20% of the labour force is foreign-born.&#8221;</p>
<p>Separate news conferences were planned on Thursday by Mr Chin in Honolulu and Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson in Seattle to discuss lawsuits filed against the travel bans.</p>
<p>Washington state and Minnesota challenged the initial travel ban from the administration.</p>
<p>Mr Chin, who noted the state has budgeted about 150,000 US dollars for an outside law firm to help with the lawsuit, said people in Hawaii find the idea of a travel ban based on nationality distasteful because they remember when Japanese Americans were sent to internment camps during the Second World War.</p>
<p>Hawaii was the site of one of the camps.</p>
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<p>People in Hawaii know that the fear of newcomers can lead to bad policy, Mr Chin said.</p>
<p>The move came after a federal judge in Honolulu said earlier on Wednesday that Hawaii can move forward with the lawsuit.</p>
<p>US district judge Derrick Watson granted the state&#8217;s request to continue with the case and set a hearing for March 15 &#8211; the day before Mr Trump&#8217;s order is due to come into effect.</p>
<p>The US Department of Justice declined to comment on the pending litigation.</p>
<p>The state will argue at the March 15 hearing that the judge should impose a temporary restraining order preventing the ban from taking effect until the lawsuit has been resolved.</p>
<p>Hawaii&#8217;s complaint says it is suing to protect its residents, businesses and schools, as well as its &#8220;sovereignty against illegal actions of President Donald J Trump and the federal government&#8221;.</p>
<p>The order affects people from Iran, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen and Libya.</p>
<p>Imam Ismail Elshikh of the Muslim Association of Hawaii, a plaintiff in the state&#8217;s challenge, says the ban will keep his Syrian mother-in-law from visiting.</p>
<p>Mr Trump&#8217;s &#8220;executive order inflicts a grave injury on Muslims in Hawaii, including Dr Elshikh, his family, and members of his mosque&#8221;, Hawaii&#8217;s complaint says. A federal judge in Seattle issued a temporary restraining order halting the initial ban after Washington state and Minnesota sued.</p>
<p>The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals refused to reinstate the order.</p>
<p>While Hawaii is the first to sue to stop the revised ban, the restraining order is still in place and could apply to the new one too, said Peter Lavalee, a spokesman for the Washington attorney general&#8217;s office.</p>
<p>University of Richmond Law School professor Carl Tobias said Hawaii&#8217;s complaint seemed in many ways similar to Washington&#8217;s successful lawsuit, but whether it would prompt a similar result was tough to say.</p>
<p>He said he expects the judge, an appointee of former president Barack Obama who was a long-time prosecutor, to be receptive to &#8220;at least some of it&#8221;.</p>
<p>Given that the new executive order spells out more of a national security rationale than the old one and allows for some travellers from the six nations to be admitted on a case-by-case basis, it will be harder to show that the new order is intended to discriminate against Muslims, Mr Tobias said.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;The administration&#8217;s cleaned it up, but whether they have cleaned it up enough I don&#8217;t know,&#8221;</i> he said.</p>
<p>&#8220;It may be harder to convince a judge there&#8217;s religious animus here.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Mr Tobias also said the fact that Hawaii&#8217;s lawsuit includes an individual plaintiff could be significant because some legal scholars have questioned whether the states themselves have standing to challenge the ban.</p>
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