“Still Unconstitutional”: Critics Lambast Trump’s Muslim Ban 2.0

Citizens of the six affected countries – Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Syria and Libya – will face a 90-day suspension of visa processing while the administration looks into how to enhance vetting procedures.

The new order drops Iraq’s name from the list of targeted countries, saying Baghdad has agreed to increase cooperation with the United States on the vetting of its citizens applying for a visa to travel to America.

The new order launches a 90-day period for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to define a new series of requirements for countries to have full participation in USA entry programs.

President Trump on Monday signed a new executive order on immigration, replacing the original travel ban that got shot down by the courts.

The provision on refugees has also been changed: The new order puts a temporary halt on all refugees entering the United States.

According to the new executive order, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will have 20 days to perform a “global, country-by-country review of the identity and security information that each country provides to the U.S. government to support U.S. visa and other immigration benefit determinations”.

“We’ve been very clear about understanding what the court said and trying to tailor that specifically, while achieving the same goal of keeping American safe”, he said.

The new order will ban refugees from impacted countries, according to the Times, though it is unclear for how long. Like the original executive order, the new order directs the Department of Homeland Security to set new standards for how much information other countries will have to give the USA when their citizens apply to come here.

“Syrian refugees are treated the way all refugees are”, Conway added Monday.

As part of the order, the administration has also directed the Department of Homeland Security and Justice Department to publicize “terrorism-related offenses” in the United States.

The new order only allows 50,000 admitted refugees.

The new ban will go into effect on March 16 at 12:01 a.m. ET, giving authorities much more time to prepare for the second attempt. They will now be subject to same 90-day ban on travelers and 120 days for refugees. The new version is more narrow than the initial executive order issued in January, and also has one less country than the previous version.

The new travel ban will likely have tighter language that would make it easier for the administration to survive lawsuits that would hold up any new executive order. Protests broke out at airports across the country. And the refugee resettlement program will still be disbanded for 120 days, even though there’s no singling out of Syrian refugees.