Half sib? Welcome. Fiance? Not so fast. New travel ban rules decried as illogical

Grandparents, cousins, uncles, and aunts do not make the cut, but parents, siblings, half-siblings, and in-laws apparently do.

The Supreme Court partially revived the Trump administration’s travel ban affecting six Muslim-majority countries. But it made clear the ban should not apply to those with “a credible claim of a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States.”

Muslim and other civil rights groups charge the administration’s interpretation of “bona fide relationship” is unreasonably narrow, so that a grandmother from one of those countries will not be able to visit the grandchild she raised when the ban went into effect again at 8 p.m. Eastern on June 29.