Just a few weeks later, a court in Hawaii ruled that the Trump administration’s definition of “close family” relationships defied common sense. … Indeed, grandparents are the epitome of close family members.” On January 31, 2020, the Trump administration added six more countries to the Muslim Ban travel list, slamming the door on immigrants from the African nations of Nigeria, Sudan, Tanzania, and Eritrea, as well as Myanmar in Southeast Asia and Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia. Two of these countries (Sudan and Kyrgyzstan) are Muslim-majority countries and three others (Eritrea, Tanzania, and Nigeria) have sizeable Muslim populations nearing 40 percent.

Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Gl…, loc. 351