Green card holders won’t be subject to travel ban

Update 11.50am: It is estimated that up to 200 people are being detained at American airports and in transist around the world as a result of Donald Trump’s travel ban orders. “Look what is happening all over Europe and, indeed, the world – a terrible mess!”

On Friday, Trump signed a sweeping new executive order to suspend refugee arrivals and imposed tough new controls on travellers from seven Muslim countries.

Donald Trump has not banned Muslims from entry into the USA, but by putting a blanket ban on all travellers from five Muslim majority countries, he has done essentially the same thing.

While lawyers are still reviewing a federal court’s temporary stay, administration officials said they believe it is possible for the White House to both comply with the judge’s order and continue enforcing Trump’s executive action.

Federal judges in four states have ruled not to deport anyone from the USA with valid documentation, such as a visa or green card, if they traveled at the time that Trump signed and enacted the order, since it was effective immediately and did not give a warning period, which the president said was a strategic move. He said green-card holders were entitled to the same rights as United States citizens. Priebus says officials were using “discretionary authority” to ask “a few more questions” at US airports. “They knew well what was going on, and they conducted themselves perfectly pursuant to the order”. Homeland Security says anyone without “a significant criminal history or links to terrorism” will be allowed back in the country after going through screening. “I don’t want to criticize them for improving vetting”. It did not specifically ban people from entering the United States just because they were citizens from these seven countries.

“We are a compassionate nation and a country of immigrants. We must be focused instead on putting in place tougher screening measures to weed out terror suspects”, McCaul said.

Republican Senator Rob Portman of OH said on CNN that he didn’t think the executive action was properly reviewed. “However, I think it was not properly vetted”.

Texas Sen. John Cornyn said the new administration “got in a big hurry”, but he agrees that people coming into the USA should be thoroughly checked.

On Friday, Donald Trump, who lost the popular vote, signed an executive order that undermines numerous basic principles upon which this country was founded.

Congressman Doug LaMalfa issued a statement Monday with his thoughts on President Trump’s executive order on immigration. Priebus, on NBC, said Trump’s team, which took over the White House on January 20, had worked with the agencies “for a long time” on the order.

The ACLU and other advocates put forward legal challenges to the order nearly immediately, gaining two emergency court orders – including several delaying enforcement of parts of the executive order – but at least seven lawsuits are open or expected to file on Monday, seeking to overturn the ruling.

He also said the administration had been working with DHS and US Customs and Border Protection for some time before the order was signed, and that the agencies were quite prepared. James Lankford, R-Okla., also disputed the order was a Muslim ban in a statement Sunday night, but he added that it “has some unintended consequences that were not well thought out”. “We got no briefing, we got nothing from the administration”, the Democratic aide said.

“President Trump’s Executive Orders remain in place – prohibited travel will remain prohibited, and the US government retains its right to revoke visas at any time if required for national security or public safety”, the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement issued hours after a federal judge issued an emergency order preventing the deportation of people subjected to the travel ban.

The individuals held on Saturday can expect to be released “in due course” if they aren’t risky, Conway said, adding that situations will be handed on a case-by-case basis. Just like I said very clearly.