Trump signs new executive travel ban

Following his earlier relapsed travel ban which failed to see the light of day shortly after his inauguration, president Trump have again signed a new executive order which however modifies the former. The president who took to the oval office chair, Monday penned a new executive order which place an overtly different explanation to the U.S immigration ethics. 

The order, which comes about a month after federal judges blocked Mr. Trump’s haphazardly executed ban in January on residents from seven Middle Eastern and African countries, will not affect people who had previously been issued visas — a change that the administration hopes will avoid the chaos, protests and legal challenges that followed the first order.

it will be recalled that president Trump on January.27 aroused the inner lines of millions of people around the world, most especially among fellow Americans when he issued an incoherent travel ban exempting core Muslim nations from entering the U.S, as he also placed a hold on the U.S.-Syrian refugee program which before now had been the focal point of what America stands for in terms of helping vulnerable s most especially from war torn Nations. 

Some modification on this new travel ban include the exclusion of Iraq from the ban list of countries as against the former, the quick inclusion of the Syria refugee program which prior to this new order had been on an indefinite ban in the former signed executive order. Though, this is now been replaced by a 120 days ban of this said program.   

Also, the new executive order have removed the preferential treatment it gave to certain religious groups most specifically "Christians" as against their Muslim brothers. However, opponents have still argued the fact that this removal is mere cosmetics as it ought not to have been an idea at the first instance aimed at deliberately segregating a particular religion against the other. This is indeed a change that obviously had done nothing to alter the order's prejudicial purpose. 

“This is a retreat, but let’s be clear — it’s just another run at a Muslim ban,” said Omar Jadwat, director of the Immigrants’ Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union, one of the groups that sued to stop the first order.

“At its core, the second order looks very similar to the first, and I expect it will run into the same problems from the courts and the public that the first one did. They can’t unring the bell.”      

According to Homeland Security Secretary, this order was “prospective” and applied “only to foreign nationals outside of the United States” who do not have a valid visa.   

“If you have a current valid visa to travel, we welcome you,” said Mr. Kelly, appearing alongside Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson and Attorney General Jeff Sessions at the Ronald Reagan Federal Building in Washington early Monday — before leaving without taking reporters’ questions.

“Unregulated, unvetted travel is not a universal privilege, especially when national security is at stake,” Mr. Kelly added.    

The first order which was signed in the full glare of reporters also got some changes as this new order was alone signed by president Trump at the Oval office alone without the buzzing sounds of flash images   collection by reporters. Though, it is still unclear why this was the case, but according to sources, president Trump wanted to show a collective effort in this rewritten new order. Trump had however been on an hardliner with the media in recent times as this behavior couldn't have been unconnected.

Citizens of Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Syria and Libya  will face a 90-day suspension and visa processing pending the administrations time grill in enhancing a strident and more rigorous vetting procedures.

The new order was delayed for about a week as the White House sought to better coordinate its activities with federal agencies and to maximize its public relations impact, according to three administration officials.   

While Republicans remain mute on this new revised order, Democrats continues to raise alarm despite this modifications as they refer to any such practice as it were as not just "meanspirited but also un-American"

This is just some early days to the newly signed executive order as opponents continues to raise dust in challenging any such attempt to impose what many have describe as an "unpopular policy".Since 2001, 18 of the 36 Muslim extremists who have engaged in attacks inside the United States were born in the United States, while 14 migrated here as children and would not have been stopped by the new vetting process, according to an analysis by Charles Kurzman, a professor at the University of North Carolina.

one came from the banned nations; Muslim extremists have accounted for 16 out of 240,000 murders in the United States since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

[Read the full text of the revised executive order]