Donald Trump has signed a revised executive order to reinstate a ban on immigration from certain Muslim-majority countries and suspend the US refugee program. Research indicates Trump travel ban was based on misleading data Read moreThe move comes after a federal judge blocked the ban and a federal appeals court upheld that ruling, denying the justice department’s request to reinstate it. The revised order will keep in place a 120-day suspension of the refugee program, but it will no longer identify Syrian refugees as subject to an indefinite ban. We firmly want to make sure that everyone understands that.”But Grace Meng, an immigration researcher for Human Rights Watch’s US program, argued the reported changes contained within Trump’s revised order were “merely cosmetic”. The White House has continued to defend the travel ban as a pressing matter of national security.

Source: The Guardian March 06, 2017 14:20 UTC