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President-elect Biden plans to end the Trump administration's travel ban on Muslim-majority countries on Day 1. But immigrant advocates say the lasting effects of the policy will be harder to undo.

A key medical adviser to the president on COVID-19 defends the travel restrictions as "the right public health call." But others dismiss the move as "remarkably pointless" or, potentially, dangerous.

President Trump's decision to bar visitors from Europe has been followed by new restrictions in other nations. Here's a survey of which doors are being closed to travelers and where.

The Trump administration plans to bar Nigerians from applying for immigrant visas in the future, citing security concerns. Nigerian communities in the U.S. worry how this could affect them.

The president confirmed a plan to expand one of the signature pieces of his immigration policy. A person briefed on the plan said Trump will soon announce travel restrictions for seven more countries.

Scientists from nations including Iran, Mexico, and India were refused visas to attend this year's Society for Neuroscience meeting in Chicago. Some researchers got stand-ins to present their work.

In Southern California's Tehrangeles, business owners feel the effects of the travel ban, sanctions and increasing White House threats of war against Iran.

Nageeb Alomari is an American citizen from Yemen. When the civil war started there, Alomari decided to bring his wife and daughters to the U.S. But then President Trump imposed the travel ban.

By a 5-4 decision, the court upheld President Trump's travel ban. Read the court's opinion — and dissents — here.

On Monday morning, the Supreme Court might release opinions in a number of significant cases, from gerrymandering challenges to religious rights disputes. We've got a roundup of the possibilities.