White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer repeatedly denied on Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s executive order barring travelers from certain countries was in fact a “ban,” although the president and Spicer himself called it just that on Monday. Since Trump signed the executive order on Friday, “1 million people have come into this country. That’s not a ban,” a testy Spicer insisted at the White House daily press briefing. The executive order bars travelers from Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Syria from entering the United States, suspends refugee resettlement for 120 days, and suspends the resettlement of refugees from Syria indefinitely. Trump has insisted the travel restrictions are critical to preventing terrorist attacks, though no immigrant from any of those countries has committed a fatal act of terror on U.S. soil.

Source: Huffington Post January 31, 2017 20:48 UTC