Donald Trump to issue new executive travel ban order next week

TIL Desk/World/Washington-US President Donald Trump on Thursday said he would announce a new executive order on immigration next week that would “comprehensively” protect the US, days after his previous controversial travel ban against seven Muslim-majority countries was hit by a legal roadblock.

In a news conference at the White House, Trump said that the new order would comprehensively protect the country, and hinted that it might contain new vetting measures for travellers. “We’re issuing a new executive action next week that will comprehensively protect our country,” Trump said.

“We’ll be going along the one path and hopefully winning that, at the same time we will be issuing a new and very comprehensive order to protect our people. That will be done sometime next week, toward the beginning or middle at the latest part,” Trump said. His previous executive order temporarily suspending entry of Syrian refugees and people from seven Muslim-majority countries has been put on hold by the court, which he said is not correct.

Trump said his administration had a very smooth rollout of the travel ban. “But we had a bad court. Got a bad decision. We had a court that’s been overturned. Again, may be wrong. But I think it’s 80 per cent of the time, a lot,” he said.