WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday making major changes to America's policies on refugees and immigration A look at what Trump ordered:Trump's order directs the State Department to stop issuing visas to Syrian nationals and halts the processing of Syrian refugees. That will remain in effect until Trump determines that enough security changes have been made to ensure that would-be terrorists can't exploit weaknesses in the current vetting system.Trump ordered a four-month suspension to America's broader refugee program. That could apply to Christians from Muslim-majority countries.Trump's order did not spell out specifically what additional steps he wants to see the Homeland Security and State departments to add to the country's vetting system for refugees. Syrians were subject to additional, classified controls that administration officials at the time declined to describe, and processing for that group routinely took years to complete.Trump's executive order suspends all immigration from countries with terrorism concerns for 90 days. The State Department said the three-month ban in the directive applied to Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen _ all Muslim-majority nations.

Source: Economic Times January 28, 2017 03:52 UTC