美國六個州挑戰川普新的旅行限令

Six U.S. states are challenging President Donald Trump's revised executive order banning travel from six Muslim-majority countries.

The state of Hawaii already has filed suit, arguing the new federal order will harm Muslims living in the Pacific island state. Five other states have banded together in a combined challenge to the latest order from Trump, meant to replace an earlier decree that was overturned by U.S. courts.

The West Coast state of Washington, which played a leading role in resisting the original presidential order, asked a federal judge in Seattle to affirm that a court order suspending enforcement of Trump's January 27 edict also applies to the new version released by the White House.

The states of Oregon, Minnesota and New York have joined Washington state's legal action, and Massachusetts announced late Thursday that it, too, will take part when an amended complaint is filed next week.

Bob Ferguson, Washington state's attorney general, said the states have a solid legal argument. The president's new immigration order is "narrower" than the original version, Ferguson said, but "that does not mean that it's cured its constitutional problems."

Trump signed a new executive order Monday barring citizens from six countries -- Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen -- from traveling to the United States for three months, and suspended for four months a U.S. refugee resettlement program. Foreign travelers who received visas to the United States before January 22, or who already are legal permanent residents of the U.S., are exempted from the new order.美國六個州對川普總統修改後的禁止六國公民入境美國的行政命令提出法律挑戰。

夏威夷州已經遞交了訴訟狀，指出新的旅行限令傷害到生活在該州的穆斯林。另外五個州則一起對川普的新政令提出挑戰。這一新命令是要代替之前被美國上訴法院駁回的版本。

美國西海岸的華盛頓州在抗拒川普總統最初的新政令上起了主導作用。該州要求西雅圖的一名聯邦法官確認，阻止實施川普最初限令的法院裁決也適用於白宮新的限令。

俄勒岡州、明尼蘇達州和紐約州也加入了華盛頓州的法律行動。麻塞諸賽州星期四晚間宣佈，也將加入下週提出的訴訟。

華盛頓州的總檢察長鮑勃·弗格森說，這些州有充分的法律依據。弗格森承認新的限令比原先的版本範圍要窄，但是他說“這並不意味着解決了自身的憲法問題”。

川普星期一簽署的新命令要求在三個月內禁止伊朗、利比亞、索馬里、蘇丹、敘利亞和也門這六個國家的公民進入美國，而且停止接收難民四個月。命令不適用於在1月22日之前獲得簽證或有永久合法居留權的人。