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(Pi Bureau)
New Delhi: US president Donald Trump signed a new travel ban on Monday on the major six countries saying that it will end all legal barriers over the matter by imposing a 90-days ban on the issuance of new visas for citizens of six majority Muslim nations.
The US refugee program will be suspended for 120 days and also will not accept 50,000 refugees in a year, down from the 110,000 cap set by the Obama administration.
Trump had signed the new ban out of public view saying the order will not take effect until March 16. The new guidelines mark a dramatic departure from Trump’s original ban. They lay out a far more specific national security basis for the order, block the issuance of only new visas, and name just six of the seven countries included in the first executive order, omitting Iraq. The order also details specific sets of people who would be able to apply for case-by-case waivers to the order, including those previously admitted to the United States for “a continuous period of work, study, or other long term activity,” those with “significant business or professional obligations” and those seeking to visit or live with family. “This executive order responsibly provides a needed pause, so we can carefully review how we scrutinize people coming here from these countries of concern,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions said that the order had been signed. The ban which was signed , hours after this Democrats and civil liberties groups asserted that the new order was legally tainted in the same way as the first one, It was in disguised Muslim ban. “While the White House may have made changes to the ban, the intent to discriminate against Muslims remains clear,” said New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman who had joined the legal fight against the first ban. “This doesn’t just harm the families caught in the chaos of President Trump’s draconian policies it’s diametrically opposed to our values, and makes us less safe.” Said Omar Jadwat, director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project “The only way to actually fix the Muslim ban is not to have a Muslim ban. Instead
