President Trump Expected To Sign New Travel Ban Executive Order Today
The Trump administration is expected to unveil a new travel ban executive order today, senior administration officials tell ABC News.
President Trump expected to sign new travel ban executive order today (ABC News)
The new executive order officially revokes and replaces the controversial order signed by President Trump in January and blocked by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals last month.
The new order
has been crafted to withstand legal challenges, exempting permanent
legal residents and applying only to future visa applicants, not those
who already hold valid visas.
The
new order also narrows the list of counties targeted, limiting travel
and immigration from six majority-Muslim countries -- Syria, Yemen,
Sudan, Somalia, Iran and Libya -- instead of seven.
The
provision on refugees has also been changed: The new order puts a
temporary halt on all refugees entering the United States. T
he first
order included a 120-day stoppage on all refugees except Syrians, who
would have been banned indefinitely.
Sources say President Trump
was reluctant to replace the original executive order and wanted to
continue fighting to defend it in court, signing this one as a
supplement of the first.
His legal team, however, made the case that the first one had to be revoked and he reluctantly decided to defer to them.
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