This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Wednesday, February 8th, 2017.

I'm Caleb Brown.

As a federal court weighs the Trump travel ban on a few of the world's majority Muslim countries, what could be the next

steps in either case?

Alex Narasta, an immigration policy analyst at the Cato Institute, comments.

The administration and the president said that 109 people have been affected directly by this,

have been stopped at the airports and turned around.

However, recording the court documents recently released from the government's case on this,

we found out that at least 60,000 people had their visas canceled or were turned around

due to this order and at least another 350,000 their trips were interrupted or harassed or they had to go through additional paperwork

or more screening as a result to analyze their paperwork coming into the United States.

So a substantially larger number of people

than what the president originally stated have been affected by this.

All right, so is there any rational reason why this disparity in calculation would exist?

The only reason I can think of that for the president and for the administration's benefit is that they were counting

only the number of people who are one intercepted on the US side in the course of

one day who left their foreign ports before arriving at the US

with travel documents from those places that were turned back.

So it's the absolute, I believe, minimum definition of the number of people who are affected.

Not all the other people who had their visas canceled.

How are these people, what kind of respite can these people expect? So there is a temporary restraining order on

enforcing the president's executive order right now. So a lot of these folks

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