Trump signs new travel ban order targeting Muslim countries

US President Donald Trump has signed a fresh immigration order in which six Muslim-majority nations have been named.

According to Trump’s latest order, new travel visas will not be issued for 90 days to people from Syria, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran, though it wholly exempts immigrants who now hold valid USA visas.

She confirmed that legal permanent residents and current visa holders would be explicitly exempt from the order, and also indicated that Iraq would no longer be on the list of countries affected.

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.

Donald Trump is continuing his disturbingly consistent behavior of signing impulsive, racist executive orders. Over the last few years, Iraqis made up approximately 25 percent of travelers from the seven countries banned in the first executive order.

In a bid to avoid the scenes of chaos and confusion at U.S. airports when the original order was issued on January 27th, the revised order comes into force on March 16th, though legal challenges are expected.

Two Michigan civil rights groups say they’re ready pick up a lawsuit filed against President Trump’s first travel ban.

The American Civil Liberties Union responded with a release on its website titled, “We’ll See You In Court 2.0: Once A Muslim Ban, Still A Muslim Ban”.

“Iraq is an important ally to defeat Isis”, said Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, adding that an “intense review over the past month identified multiple security measures” that were being taken by the Iraqi government and the US State Department to vet Iraqi travellers and refugees.

And since the initial ban was blocked from being enforced, a report from Trump’s own Department of Homeland Security knocked down the notion that citizens and refugees from the included nations were any more likely to pose a terrorist threat than immigrants from other countries. But Obama’s 2016 goal was a historic high: the USA has set a refugee cap between 70,000 and 80,000 every year since 2007, according to State Department data. “The Executive Order signed today is prospective in nature-applying only to foreign nationals outside of the United States who do not have a valid visa”, Kelly said, in part.

Much of the opposition was based on Trump previously stating his intent to ban all Muslims from entering the United States.

Now, 6 weeks after the original order, Trump is trying again to pass a slightly modified but still discriminatory order that he signed on Monday.

Trump’s new order also explicitly revokes his prior order, which had been on hold following a court challenge from Ferguson.

The new ban does not ban Syrian refugees indefinitely.