"Donald J. Trump is calling for a complete and total shutdown of Muslims entering the United States. They enslave women and they murder gays. I don't want them in our country."
So said US President Donald Trump on the campaign trail last year, pledging to ban Muslims from entering the United States.
Now he's had a partial victory, with the US Supreme Court narrowing the scope of earlier lower-court rulings that blocked his travel ban on people from six Muslim-majority countries and agreeing to hear his appeals in the cases.
The ban on visitors from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen means that immigrants and refugees will now have to prove they have a connection to the US through family, school or employment.
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer says the President is pleased with the unanimous decision.
