Donald Trump Signs New-Travel Ban Order

President Trump is expected to issue a revised version of his controversial executive order on immigration Monday, two senior White House officials tell NBC News – more than a month after his original travel ban caused nationwide and worldwide disruption and outrage before being blocked in federal court.

But it was no coincidence that the seven countries singled out were all overwhelmingly Muslim, and account for over 80 percent of Muslim refugees entering the United States from 2014 to 2016.

President Trump signed the new order behind closed doors around 11:30 a.m., NBC reported.

Hawaii was expected to ask Judge Watson later Wednesday to immediately suspend the executive order, and state lawyers attached a copy of their new lawsuit to a different court filing asking the court to unfreeze the litigation over Mr. Trump’s original travel ban.

In a tweet a few hours after Trump issued his latest order, Ferguson said: “It will take a few days to gauge how new order may harm Washington businesses, universities, etc”. After all, as a candidate for the White House, Donald Trump made clear that his goal as president would be to ban Muslims from entering the United States. “And so these are mostly minor, technical differences”, Miller said during a town hall hosted last month by Fox News.

The initial travel ban – which critics contended was Trump making good on a promise to ban Muslim immigrants from the US – caused a litany of legal and political trouble for Trump and his administration.

Administration officials said Monday that they do not see the ban as targeting a specific religion.

The new order aims to withstand court challenges while still barring new visas for citizens from six mainly-Muslim countries and shutting down the U.S. refugee program. Those people who are travelling on valid visas and arrive at a USA port of entry will still be permitted to seek entry into the United States.

The original ban’s lack of clarity on existing visas led to chaos at airports and resulted in about 60,000 visas being revoked. It also says the island state’s economy would be hit by a decline in tourism.

The administration argues that this executive order – called “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States” – will effectively keep out individuals who may pose a threat to the country. Concerns over the consequences to US bids for the 2024 Olympics have been voiced to no avail.

But Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer predicted Monday that the improved coordination and narrower scope would have little effect on the new ban’s chances in the courts. The government appealed this decision to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals which upheld the lower court’s ban on the travel ban.

At the March 15 hearing, the judge will also hear arguments from the state on a motion to impose a temporary restraining order that would prevent the ban from taking place until the lawsuit has been resolved. It sends a message that goes far beyond our zero-tolerance policy for terrorism; it tells Muslim people in America and around the world that they are less than, and that because of how they look and what they believe, they must be assumed to be unsafe until proven otherwise. We can turn those scary news notifications into updates about justice and peace. Additionally, the White House included in the order Department of State terrorism data as a means of assuring people that interagency evidence was used to support the ninety-day suspension of new visas, not conjecture or suspicion alone. The new executive order doesn’t undo the effect of those statements. But in a major defeat, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled February 9 that Trump’s initial travel ban would remain suspended.

Since the order applies to a small portion of the world’s Muslim population, courts might be hesitant to find it’s discriminatory, he said.