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AirTalk

The mounting legal challenges to Trump’s travel ban

By AirTalk Staff
Published Feb 2, 2017
LOS ANGELES, CA - JANUARY 29: Protesters hold signs during a demonstration against the immigration ban that was imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump at Los Angeles International Airport on January 29, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. Thousands of protesters gathered outside of the Tom Bradley International Terminal at Los Angeles International Airport to denounce the travel ban imposed by President Trump. Protests are taking place at airports across the country. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Protesters hold signs during a demonstration against the immigration ban that was imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump at Los Angeles International Airport on January 29, 2017.
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The mounting legal challenges to Trump’s travel ban

In yet another legal challenge to President Trump’s immigration executive order, L.A. federal judge Andre Birotte, Jr. issued a stay that would, for long, allow people from the seven Muslim-majority countries in the ban to enter the U.S.

AirTalk looks at the legal challenges that are mounting against the President’s controversial travel ban.

Guests:

Ahilan Arulanantham, legal director and director of advocacy at the ACLU of Southern California

James Copland, director of legal policy and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute