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Trump signs revised travel ban

by City News Service • March 6, 2017

President Donald Trump [White House press photo]
LOS ANGELES – President Donald Trump on Monday signed a revised executive order that restricts travel into the United States from six primarily Muslim countries and bars all refugee entries for 120 days. [View the order here.]

Trump’s order is expected to take effect in 10 days, providing a preparation window that was lacking in his previous order that was ultimately put on hold by a federal appeals court in Northern California. The new order puts a 90-day halt to visitors from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. The order does not include Iraq, which was included in the previous order.

The new order also suspends all refugee entries for 120 days.

Trump signed the order without fanfare Monday morning, but he has been vowing for weeks to take such an action after the federal court rejected the previous one. He has repeatedly called the order necessary to protect national security by temporarily halting visitors from select countries so the process of vetting immigrants can be revamped.

In a briefing with reporters, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called the order a “vital” tool for “strengthening our national security.” Administration officials, including Attorney General Jeff Sessions, said 300 people who entered the United States as refugees were being investigated by the FBI in terrorism-related probes.

Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Los Angeles, called the revised order harmful and incompetent.

“Trump’s Muslim Ban 2.0 is nothing short of a strategic failure,” Lieu said. “A leaked DHS report from his own cabinet called citizenship from the banned countries an unreliable indicator of threat. If the banned countries are such a threat, then why does this second ban arbitrarily drop the nation of Iraq? And why does the ban go into effect on March 16? Where’s the urgency in that? This second executive order just makes no sense.”

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., added, “Just like the first order, it simply seeks to carry out the president’s campaign promise to create a Muslim ban’ by imposing a blanket prohibition on travel to the United States from Muslim-majority countries. Just like the first order, we will work to rescind it.”

Previous related stories:

Appeals court refuses to reinstate Trump travel ban

L.A. County officials support effort to rescind White House Travel ban

AG joins opposition to trump immigration ban

Iranian man barred by Trump ban returns to LAX

Judge’s order blocks part of Trump’s immigration order at LAX

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Filed Under: Politics

6 comments for "Trump signs revised travel ban"

  1. F Tim scott says

    March 7, 2017 at 11:05 pm

    He is yo prez cuz

    • Tim Scott says

      March 8, 2017 at 7:16 am

      Not King. Not dictator. Every time he oversteps his authority I’ll be there to protest. That protects the rights of the people who voted against him, as well as the dupes who voted for him.

  2. Ron says

    March 7, 2017 at 12:21 pm

    GO PRESIDENT TRUMP WE ARE BEHIND YOU!!!!!!!!!!!

    • Laughing says

      March 7, 2017 at 1:08 pm

      AS WE SHOVE HIM OFF THE CLIFF!!!!

      • SMHX2 says

        March 8, 2017 at 7:37 am

        LOL!

    • Tim Scott says

      March 7, 2017 at 6:08 pm

      I’m certainly hoping he goes. Don’t much care where.

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