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		</div><p>A federal judge in Hawaii has decided to extend his order blocking President Donald Trump&#8217;s travel ban.<br />
US District Judge Derrick Watson issued the longer-lasting hold on the ban hours after hearing arguments.<br />
Hawaii says the policy discriminates against Muslims and hurts the state&#8217;s tourist-dependent economy.</p>
<p>The implied message in the revised ban is like a &#8220;neon sign flashing &#8216;Muslim ban, Muslim ban'&#8221; that the government did not bother to turn off, state attorney general Douglas Chin told the judge.</p>
<p>Extending the temporary order until the state&#8217;s lawsuit is resolved would ensure the constitutional rights of Muslim citizens across the US are vindicated after &#8220;repeated stops and starts of the last two months&#8221;, the state has said.</p>
<p>The government says the ban falls within the president&#8217;s power to protect national security. Hawaii has only spelled out generalised concerns about its effect on students and tourism, Department of Justice lawyer Chad Readler told the judge by telephone.</p>
<p>The Trump administration had asked Judge Watson to narrow his ruling to cover only the part of Mr Trump&#8217;s executive order that suspends new visas for people from six Muslim-majority countries.<br />
Mr Readler said a freeze on the US refugee programme had no effect on Hawaii.</p>
<p>Judge Watson rejected that argument, preventing the administration from halting the flow of refugees.<br />
He said in court that the government only argued for that narrower interpretation after a federal judge in Maryland blocked the six-nation travel ban but said it was not clear that the refugee suspension was similarly motivated by religious bias.</p>
<p>Judge Watson noted that the government said 20 refugees had been resettled in Hawaii since 2010.<br />
&#8220;Is this a mathematical exercise that 20 isn&#8217;t enough? &#8230; What do I make of that?&#8221; the judge asked Mr Readler.</p>
<p>The lawyer replied that 20 is simply a small number of refugees. &#8220;In whose judgment?&#8221; Judge Watson asked.<br />
Hawaii was the first state to sue over Mr Trump&#8217;s revised ban. The imam of a Honolulu mosque joined the challenge, arguing that the ban would prevent his Syrian mother-in-law from visiting family in Hawaii.</p>
<p>In his arguments, Mr Chin quoted Mr Trump&#8217;s comments that the revised travel ban is a &#8220;watered down&#8221; version of the original. &#8220;We cannot fault the president for being politically incorrect, but we do fault him for being constitutionally incorrect,&#8221; Mr Chin said.</p>
<p>Earlier this month, Judge Watson prevented the federal government from suspending new visas for people from Somalia, Iran, Syria, Sudan, Libya and Yemen and freezing the nation&#8217;s refugee programme. His ruling came hours before the federal government planned to start enforcing Mr Trump&#8217;s executive order.</p>
<p>The president called Judge Watson&#8217;s previous ruling &#8220;unprecedented judicial overreach&#8221;.</p>
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