What You Need to Know: Changes in Trump’s Revised Immigration Order

The White House says this won’t be the case with the new order.

Ferguson is also promising a review of Trump’s new ban.

Citizens and nationals of Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen who didn’t have a visa by 5 p.m. on January 27 can not enter the United States for 90 days. It was crafted to avoid legal issues raised about the earlier order, which included concerns that it created religious preferences. There will be a 90-day hold on issuing visas to citizens of these six countries, a condition similar to the one in the order signed by Trump on January 27. The order also suspends admission of refugees into the USA for 120 days, directing U.S. officials to improve vetting measures for a program that is already widely regarded as extremely stringent.

Upon resumption of the Refugee Admissions Program, the executive order calls for refugee admissions not exceed 50,000 for fiscal 2017, cutting by more than half the 110,000 refugees projected to be admitted this year under Obama administration guidelines.

TRT World’s Jennifer Glasse reports from Washington. They include people who have worked for the US government, infants and young children, people needing urgent medical care and people with a previous connections to the USA who happen to be outside the country when the ban takes effect.

The original order was blocked in the courts after it was deemed unconstitutional. But the order doesn’t apply to legal-permanent residents of the USA – so-called green card holders.

However immigrant rights advocates condemned the revised order. The new order applies to those same countries, except for Iraq, which has been removed. “And so we will continue to challenge”.

New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman said in a statement that the intent to discriminate against Muslims is still present in the revised order.

It was unclear what changes Trump planned to make, according to the publication. “It is the whole concept of barring people from traveling because of nationality and religion that is problematic, and this is still there in the new order”, he says.

Apparently, the decision to remove Iraq from the travel ban was taken after Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson discussed with the Iraqi government about the vetting processes and the country’s officials claimed that their system was through enough on its own. “Further, by halting refugee resettlement, this ban also callously betrays America’s long history as a safe haven for those fleeing oppression and seeking freedom”.

Last updated 2 p.m.to include ACLU’s commments.