Donald TrumpUnited States President Donald Trump's executive order on immigration fundamentally alters decades of bipartisan US practice. It blocks immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries, and stops all refugee resettlement for at least 120 days. But it is also critical to global refugee resettlement. Mr Trump's order gives the power to the secretary of homeland security to continue to admit refugees on a case-by-case basis, irrespective of the wider shutdown. Mr Trump's move challenges this directly, and is likely to lead to further restrictions on basic protections for refugees.

Source: Otago Daily Times January 30, 2017 17:03 UTC