Trump is trumped again!

The ban applies to most of the entire population of the countries targeted.

I looked at the text of Trump's executive order. There was something about allowing students that had already been to school in America. I didn't see a single thing about letting in new students that had not already been here. I didn't see a single thing about jobs other than direct employment by the US government.

The ban as written applied to most of the population of the countries targeted, because most people in those countries don't have a relative or a job or school here, so they don't even want to come here.

The parts of the ban allowed by the Supreme Court allows most of the people who actually come here to continue to do so.

The text of Trump's order is not the most important factor. It's the parts of Trump's order which are allowed by the Supreme Court which matter.

And the Supreme Court has ruled that Trump's order does not apply to anyone with “a credible claim of a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States”. Relationship to a person has been defined as meaning by blood, by marriage, or even step relations.

Entities means something established, such as a business or school.

That pretty much leaves refugees without a relative, (60% have relatives here),

and people who somehow have the means to move from the Middle East to the US without working here.

That isn't many.

As usual, the significance of the 1886 ruling has escaped you altogether. No surprise there.

The ruling clearly specifies nationality as a category of discrimination which is unacceptable by the terms of the first paragraph of the XIVth amendment.

Whether or not a person is physically present in the United States is not relevant.

That dodge was tried with those detained in Guantanamo to deny appeals for writs of habeas corpus--it failed.

Is that specific enough for you, hot shot?

Your understanding is limited to what is acceptable to you in terms of your narrow polemical positions.

[The ban as written] Applies, present tense.

I've only heard of one change that the courts made to his executive order. He defined close relations as spouses, children, or parents. The courts added grandparents.

Jobs and acceptance to college were not under Trump's definition of a bona fide relationship.

I'm not aware of any court expansion of the list to include any jobs other than for the federal government.

Nope. After it was written, the ban was struck down entirely and then only minimal parts re-instated. All that applies now are those few parts the Supreme Court re-instated or changed.

As I've mentioned before, the Supreme Court says the ban can NOT apply to anyone who has a bona fide relation to a person or entity in the US. That means a private of public job, a school. Even if someone has a contract to make a speech someplace in the US, the ban does not apply to him.

The court did expand the exceptions to the ban to include anyone with a bona fide relation to someone or some entity in the US. Even if what you say is true about relations with people-I'm not sure you are-you are absolutely mistaken about the job having to be a Federal job.

The Supreme Court's decision made clear it was any job, even a one night speaking engagement.

Officials said those exceptions would be defined narrowly. In a lengthy cable sent to embassies and consulates around the world, officials said that extended family connections would not be enough to evade the President's ban on entry. Parents, including in-laws, are considered "close family," but grandparents are not, for instance. Stepsiblings and half-siblings will be allowed, but not nieces or nephews.

you are absolutely mistaken about the job having to be a Federal job.