Boston Herald

Trump: New order will ‘make our country safe’

- By OWEN BOSS — owen.boss@bostonhera­ld.com

President Trump is mulling signing a “brand-new” executive order on immigratio­n after the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a restrainin­g order on his travel ban that barred all entries from seven Muslim-majority countries and suspended the nation’s refugee program.

After predicting his administra­tion would win the legal battle over his order and vowing to take action “very rapidly” after the appeals decision, Trump told reporters on Air Force One his administra­tion is also considerin­g other options, including “just filing a brandnew order.”

Although a White House official said the administra­tion would not ask the Supreme Court to overturn the appeals court ruling — a comment that contradict­ed a tweet Trump sent Thursday night vowing to “SEE YOU IN COURT” — Chief of Staff Reince Priebus later said “every single court option is on the table.”

“We’ll be doing things to continue to make our country safe,” Trump said during a joint news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

“It will happen rapidly,” Trump said. “We will not allow people into our country who are looking to do harm to our people.”

Trump went on to say he “learned tremendous things that you could only learn, frankly, if you were in a certain position, namely president. And there are tremendous threats to our country. We will not allow that to happen, I can tell you that.”

In a tweet yesterday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Trump “ought to see the writing on the wall,” abandon the executive order and “roll up his sleeves (and) come up (with) a bipartisan plan to keep us safe.”

House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell declined to comment.

Seattle U.S. District Judge James Robart last week approved a temporary restrainin­g order halting the ban nationwide after Washington state and Minnesota sued, leading to the federal government’s appeal.

Robart’s ruling came hours after a federal judge in Boston declined to extend a temporary injunction against the travel ban.

 ?? AFP GETTY IMAGES/NICHOLAS KAMM ?? FORMAL DINNER: President Trump, top right, joins Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, center, first lady Melania Trump, obscured at left and Patriots owner Robert Kraft, below left, at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort last night.
AFP GETTY IMAGES/NICHOLAS KAMM FORMAL DINNER: President Trump, top right, joins Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, center, first lady Melania Trump, obscured at left and Patriots owner Robert Kraft, below left, at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort last night.

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