The U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii modified its preliminary injunction to prevent the government from enforcing the travel ban, Executive Order 13780, against grandparents, grandchildren, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, and cousins of persons in the United States. It held that the government’s narrow interpretation of “close familial relationship” was unconstitutional.
The modifications also exclude from the Executive Order refugees who have a formal assurance from a resettlement agency in the United States or who are part of the Lautenberg Program.