Thursday June 13, 2024
Protesters gathered at Washington Dulles International Airport after President Trump signed an executive order barring visitors from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States for the next 90 days. LEIGH VOGEL/SIPA USA VIA AP IMAGES
A major agreement in the long-running cases to repair the lasting harms of the so-called "Muslim ban" that former President Donald Trump enacted in 2017 calls for the government to provide a clear visa reconsideration process, free of charge, to nearly 25,000 people from Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen who were prevented from getting U.S. visas.
When Biden took office, he rescinded the ban, but people are still affected. This settlement seeks to repair some of those harms.
Here & Now's Deepa Fernandes speaks with Maral Elliott, one of the plaintiffs in the case, and Baback Yousefzadeh, chair of the Iranian American Bar Association Board of Advisors, one of the groups that litigated the case.
This segment aired on June 12, 2024.