President expected to issue new order to revise travel ban
WASHINGTON:US President Donald Trump is now expected to issue a new executive order on Monday replacing his earlier travel ban that triggered a storm at home and abroad and was eventually stayed by a court.
Politico reported over the weekend that senior officials involved with the order were headed for Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s Florida resort that he is now calling the Winter White House, “for an EO launch meeting” with the president.
The news site gave no details, but according to multiple earlier reports, the new order will list six, and not seven, Muslim-majority nations whose citizens will be barred from entering the US for 90 days; Iraq is being dropped. It will apply to visa holders from Iran, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia and Libya.
Also, existing visa holders with Green Cards from these nations will not be kept out, according to those reports.
The temporary ban of 120 days on all refugees will also apply to those from Syria, who were earlier barred indefinitely.
The new order could contain these new changes, or not, and address other concerns. It was expected last week.
TRUMP ASKS CONG TO LOOK INTO ‘POLITICALLY MOTIVATED’ PROBES
Donald Trump is asking the US Congress to probe “potentially politically motivated investigations” during the 2016 campaign, the White House said on Sunday.
The announcement came one day after Trump took to Twitter to accuse his predecessor Barack Obama of tapping his phones ahead of the November election, without providing evidence of the explosive charge.
An Obama spokesman has denied Trump’s accusation as “simply false.” In his statement, White House press secretary Sean Spicer referred to unspecified reports of “potentially politically motivated investigations immediately ahead of the 2016 election” as “very troubling.”
“President Donald J. Trump is requesting that as part of their investigation into Russian activity, the congressional intelligence committees exercise their oversight authority to determine whether executive branch investigative powers were abused in 2016,” Spicer said.