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February 10, 2017

Outspoken Texas bishop welcomes appeals court ruling against refugee ban

Nizar al-Qassab, an Iraqi Christian refugee from Mosul, gets a kiss from his children as they prepare to depart from Beirut international airport Feb. 8 en route to the United States. A three-panel federal appeals court upheld a temporary restraining order against President Donald Trump's refugee and travel ban.

WASHINGTON – The chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Migration welcomed a federal appeals court ruling that upheld a temporary restraining order against President Donald Trump's travel ban on refugees from seven predominantly Muslim countries that also temporarily suspended the country's refugee resettlement program.

Published in International