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Since January 27, the less-than-sexy minutiae of immigration policy and the alphabet soup of visa classes have been headline makers thanks to President Trump's executive order on immigration, which has come to be called, simply, "the travel ban." It's a subject dear to our hearts, given its profound and far-reaching effect on border crossings—and unless you're willing to spend a lot of time reading court papers, it can be a challenge to understand. So we decided to dive in and do a play-by-play of how we got to this point and what it actually means for travelers—those directly affected by the ruling, and the trickle-down effect to other parts of the travel industry— knowing full well that news could (and, it turned out, did) break *during* the taping of the podcast.

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