Trump finally sign new travel ban executive order

The Trump administration is expected to unveil a new 
travel ban executive order today, senior administration officials told Media.

The new executive order officially revokes and replaces the
controversial order signed by President Trump in January 
and blocked by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals last month.

 The new order has been crafted to withstand legal 
challenges, exempting permanent legal residents and
 applying only to future visa applicants, not those who 
already hold valid visas.

The new order also narrows the list of counties targeted,
limiting travel and immigration from six majority-Muslim
countries -- Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, Iran and Libya --
instead of seven.

Iraq has been removed from the original list at the urging of the Pentagon and State Department , where officials worried that keeping Iraq on the travel ban list could hinder the U.S. fight against ISIS.

The provision on refugees has also been changed: The
 new order puts a temporary halt on all refugees entering 
the United States. The first order applied only to Syrian refugees.

Sources say President Trump was reluctant to replace the
original executive order and wanted to continue fighting to
defend it in court, signing this one as a supplement of the 
first.

His legal team, however, made the case that the first one 
had to be revoked and he reluctantly decided to defer to them.