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		</div><p>The Trump administration can strictly enforce its ban on refugees, the US Supreme Court has ruled.</p>
<p>However, the court is leaving in place a weakened travel ban that includes grandparents among relatives who can help visitors from six mostly Muslim countries get into the US.</p>
<p>The justices acted today on the administration’s appeal against a federal judge’s ruling last week.</p>
<p>US District Judge Derrick Watson ordered the government to allow in refugees formally working with a resettlement agency in the United States.</p>
<p>He also vastly expanded the family relations that refugees and visitors can use to get into the country.</p>
<p>The high court blocked his order as it applies to refugees for now, but not the expanded list of relatives.</p>
<p>The justices said the federal appeals court in San Francisco should now consider the appeal.</p>
<p>It is not clear how quickly that will happen.</p>
<p>In the meantime, up to 24,000 refugees who have already been assigned to a charity or religious organisation in the US will not be able to use that connection to get into the country.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;This ruling jeopardises the safety of thousands of people across the world including vulnerable families fleeing war and violence,&#8221;</i> said Naureen Shah, Amnesty International USA’s senior director of campaigns.</p>
<p>That part of the court’s ruling was a victory for President Donald Trump, who rolled out a first ban on travellers and refugees after just a week in office, prompting a legal fight that has raged ever since.</p>
<p>However, the Supreme Court also denied the administration’s request to clarify its ruling last month that allowed the administration to partially reinstate a 90-day ban on visitors from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen and a 120-day ban on refugees from anywhere in the world.</p>
<p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/refugeesGreeceFeb16_large.jpg"><img src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/refugeesGreeceFeb16_large.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="325" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-115524" /></a></p>
<p>The court’s ruling exempted a large swath of refugees and travellers with a &#8220;bona fide relationship&#8221; with a person or an entity in the US.</p>
<p>The justices did not define those relationships but said they could include a close relative, a job offer or admission to a college or university.</p>
<p>Judge Watson’s order added grandparents, grandchildren, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins to a list that already included a parent, spouse, fiance, son, daughter, son-in-law, daughter-in-law or sibling in the US.</p>
<p>The expanded list of relatives remains in effect, and the State Department already has instructed diplomats to use the broader list when considering visa applicants from the six countries.</p>
<p>Hawaii Attorney General Doug Chin said the court’s order &#8220;confirms we were right to say that the Trump administration over-reached in trying to unilaterally keep families apart from each other&#8221;.</p>
<p>Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas would have blocked Judge Watson’s order in its entirety.</p>
<p>Those same three justices said last month they would have allowed the Trump travel ban to take full effect.</p>
<p>The travel ban is already on the court’s calendar for October, though the 90-day pause will have expired by then.</p>
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