Monday, March 6, 2017

Trump signs revised travel ban in bid to overcome legal challenges

By Steve Holland and Julia Edwards Ainsley | WASHINGTON

President Donald Trump signed a revised executive order on Monday banning citizens from six Muslim-majority nations from traveling to the United States but removing Iraq from the list, after his controversial first attempt was blocked in the courts.

The new order, which takes effect on March 16, keeps a 90-day ban on travel to the United States by citizens of Iran, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. It applies only to new visa applicants, meaning some 60,000 people whose visas were revoked under the previous order will



source http://www.omnipopmag.com/2017/03/06/trump-signs-revised-travel-ban-in-bid-to-overcome-legal-challenges/

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