US: Supreme Court allows Trump’s ‘travel ban’ to enter effect

The Court ruled by 7-2 to allow the controversial policy to enter full force, affecting people from Chad, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen, pending a number of legal challenges making their way through the courts.

The ban also covers people from North Korea and some Venezuelan government officials, but those provisions were already in effect.

People from the affected countries will be categorically refused entry visas unless they have “bona fide” links inside the US, such as business transactions or close family relationships.

It is technically the third iteration of a policy which Trump has attempted to implement since taking office in January.

The announcement of the policy at the start of the year sparked international protests, with thousands gathering outside the US Embassy in Dublin and hundreds at Shannon and Clare airports.