Immigration Reform News: New Donald Trump Travel Ban Set to Arrive Soon, Targets Same Seven Countries

By Edward Leano, Christian Post Contributor Tuesday, February 21, 2017

After the confusion and protests that resulted from the Donald Trump administration's first travel ban, the White House is eager to try again. President Donald Trump and his team are working to release a revised executive order on immigration very soon.

The new revised executive order still places the same seven countries from his previous order under a travel ban. This time, the order specifically exempts green card holders and visa holders.

A senior White House official, speaking on condition of anonymity, disclosed through FOX News that the order will target the same nations covered in the original travel ban. The seven countries — Iran, Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, Sudan and Libya — will be the only ones included in the revised order.

The official added that the order could be ready by this week.

The White House source also added that the draft exempts green-card holders and dual citizens of the United States and any of the countries covered by the ban. The directive to identify and reject visa applications by Syrian refugees is also no longer in the order.

In the original order, travel has been temporarily suspended to the United States for citizens of the seven Muslim-majority countries, for 90 days. Travelers were detained in airports, U.S. permanent residents among them. Chaos ensued as detained travelers and protesters clogged up the air travel system all over the country.

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary John Kelly said that the President and team are hard at work, according to CNN. A "tighter, more streamlined version of the first executive order" is in the making, Kelly said at the Munich Security Conference this past weekend.

"The new order is going to be very much tailored to what I consider to be a very bad decision," President Trump said, referring to the ruling a federal appeals court made against the reinstatement of the first travel ban order.

A source close to the proceeding said via CNN that the order will probably address the religious discrimination issues in the original ban, which was one of the reasons the 9th Circuit ruled against reinstating the first order.