Alwaght- US president introduced a new anti-Muslim measure to prevent the citizens of major Islamic countries from entering the US.
US President Donald Trump signed a revised executive order on Monday banning citizens from six Muslim-majority nations from traveling to the United States but removing Iraq from the list, after his controversial first attempt was blocked in the courts.
The first anti-Muslim order faced a widespread protest both inside and outside the US. Many political and scholar figure denounced the measure that even prevented a six-year old Iranian patient in need for emergency heart operation.
The new order, which takes effect on 16 March, keeps a 90-day ban on travel to the United States by citizens of Iran, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. It applies only to new visa applicants, meaning some 60,000 people whose visas were revoked under the previous order will now be permitted to enter.
Immigration advocates said the new ban still discriminated against Muslims and failed to address some of their concerns with the previous order. Legal experts said it would, however, be harder to challenge because it affects fewer people living in the US and allows more exemptions to protect them.
Trump, who first proposed a temporary travel ban on Muslims during his presidential campaign last year, had said his original 27 January executive order was a national security measure meant to head off attacks by Islamist militants.
