Photo: AFPFrance’s far right National Front party says if Marine Le Pen is elected president in May it would consider imposing a Donald Trump-like travel ban on citizens of certain Muslim countries. National Front mayor Steeve Briois, who is a leading member of Le Pen’s campaign team was asked whether his party would consider imposing the same ban that has barred citizens of seven Muslim countries from travelling to the US. Trump’s decree has sparked uproar throughout the United States and around the globe. Trump has insisted the measure was not a “Muslim ban” saying it was about fighting terrorism and had nothing to do with religion. He has suggested in the past that the US might have to restrict immigration from France because it had been “compromised by terrorism”.

Source: The Local January 30, 2017 16:58 UTC