Trump Signs Revised Executive Order - Still a Ban Against Muslim Nations

The White House has signed a new executive order intending to achieve the same effects as the first one but with nuissances it hopes will prevent courts from blocking implentation.  Rather than attempt to summarize the enormous issues, both legal and ethical, with this action, please review and share the New York Times piece below detailing in bullet point format what's changed and what it all means.

President Trump on Monday signed a revised version of his executive order that would for the first time rewrite American immigration policy to bar migrants from predominantly Muslim nations, removing citizens of Iraq from the original travel embargo and scrapping a provision that explicitly protected religious minorities.

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.

But it did little to halt criticism from Democrats and immigrant rights groups, which predicted a renewed fight in the courts. Mr. Trump’s initial, hastily issued order on Jan. 27 prompted protests across the country, leaving tearful families stranded at airports abroad and in the United States.

Please read: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/06/us/politics/trump-travel-ban-groups.html

Additional Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/06/us/politics/travel-ban-muslim-trump.html

Photo credit: Al Drago / New York Times.