The Associated Press claims that a new immigration travel ban is expected via executive order by President Donald Trump on Wednesday. The news agency was told about the plans by a senior official in the Trump administration who wished to remain anonymous as they had not received official authorization to leak the news about the incoming new order relating to refugees and immigration.
The new travel ban was expected to arrive last week but, according to Sean Spicer, the White House spokesman, the order has been delayed by the President to ensure that it is executed flawlessly. Trump’s first executive order, blocked by federal judges, indefinitely banned all Syrian immigrant refugees and temporarily suspended the entire refugee program of the US for 120 days. It also temporarily halted all immigration from several Muslim-majority nations, including Iraq and Iran.
The ban resulted in airport protests all over the US, with agents from the Department of Homeland Security stopping individuals as they arrived in the country, and others prevented from boarding flights. John Kelly, the Secretary of the DHS, says the new executive order will be a ‘more streamlined version’ of the original.
Last week, Stephen Miller, an advisor at the White House, said the new order will have the same general outcome as the previous one, but that it will have technical differences to respond to the judicial ruling that blocked the original order.