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12-09-2017, 08:21 AM
WASHINGTON: The US State Department said it began fully implementing President Donald Trump?s travel ban targeting six Muslim-majority countries on Friday, four days after the Supreme Court ruled the order could be enforced while legal appeals continue.
Trump?s order, which calls for ?enhancing vetting capabilities? at US embassies and consulates overseas, directs the departments of State and Homeland Security to restrict the entry of people from six Muslim-majority countries - Chad, Iran, Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen - as well as from Venezuela and North Korea.
The State Department said in a statement on Friday that no visas would be revoked under the new vetting procedures. It said the restrictions were not intended to be permanent and could be lifted as ?countries work with the US government to ensure the safety of Americans.
?Trump promised as a candidate to impose ?a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States? and his effort to implement a travel ban has run into repeated legal challenges since he first announced it a week after taking office.
The current ban is the third version from the administration. Lower courts allowed the provisions covering North Korea and Venezuela to go into effect. Challenges continue for the six predominantly Muslim countries, charging that the ban discriminates on the basis of religion in violation of the US Constitution and is not permissible under immigration laws. The Supreme Court on Monday granted the administration?s request to lift two injunctions that partially blocked the ban. The decision allows the restrictions to go into force, even as legal challenges continue in lower courts. Two liberal justices dissented.
Trump lifts refugee ban, but admissions still plummet, data shows: In late October, President Donald Trump lifted a temporary ban on most refugee admissions, a move that should have cleared the way for more people fleeing persecution and violence to come to the United States. Instead, the number of refugees admitted to the country has plummeted. In the five weeks after the ban was lifted, 40 percent fewer people were allowed in than in the last five weeks it was in place, according to a Reuters analysis of State Department data.
That plunge has gone almost unnoticed. As he lifted the ban, Trump instituted new rules for tougher vetting of applicants and also effectively halted, at least for now, the entry of refugees from 11 countries deemed as high risk. The latter move has contributed significantly to the precipitous drop in the number of refugees being admitted. The data shows that the Trump administration?s new restrictions have proven to be a far greater barrier to refugees than even his temporary ban, which was limited in scope by the Supreme Court. The State Department data shows that the kind of refugees being allowed in has also changed. A far smaller portion are Muslim.When the ban was in place they made up a quarter of all refugees. Now that it has been lifted they represent just under 10 percent. Admissions over five weeks is a limited sample from which to draw broad conclusions, and resettlement numbers often pick up later in the fiscal year, which began in October.
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Trump?s order, which calls for ?enhancing vetting capabilities? at US embassies and consulates overseas, directs the departments of State and Homeland Security to restrict the entry of people from six Muslim-majority countries - Chad, Iran, Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen - as well as from Venezuela and North Korea.
The State Department said in a statement on Friday that no visas would be revoked under the new vetting procedures. It said the restrictions were not intended to be permanent and could be lifted as ?countries work with the US government to ensure the safety of Americans.
?Trump promised as a candidate to impose ?a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States? and his effort to implement a travel ban has run into repeated legal challenges since he first announced it a week after taking office.
The current ban is the third version from the administration. Lower courts allowed the provisions covering North Korea and Venezuela to go into effect. Challenges continue for the six predominantly Muslim countries, charging that the ban discriminates on the basis of religion in violation of the US Constitution and is not permissible under immigration laws. The Supreme Court on Monday granted the administration?s request to lift two injunctions that partially blocked the ban. The decision allows the restrictions to go into force, even as legal challenges continue in lower courts. Two liberal justices dissented.
Trump lifts refugee ban, but admissions still plummet, data shows: In late October, President Donald Trump lifted a temporary ban on most refugee admissions, a move that should have cleared the way for more people fleeing persecution and violence to come to the United States. Instead, the number of refugees admitted to the country has plummeted. In the five weeks after the ban was lifted, 40 percent fewer people were allowed in than in the last five weeks it was in place, according to a Reuters analysis of State Department data.
That plunge has gone almost unnoticed. As he lifted the ban, Trump instituted new rules for tougher vetting of applicants and also effectively halted, at least for now, the entry of refugees from 11 countries deemed as high risk. The latter move has contributed significantly to the precipitous drop in the number of refugees being admitted. The data shows that the Trump administration?s new restrictions have proven to be a far greater barrier to refugees than even his temporary ban, which was limited in scope by the Supreme Court. The State Department data shows that the kind of refugees being allowed in has also changed. A far smaller portion are Muslim.When the ban was in place they made up a quarter of all refugees. Now that it has been lifted they represent just under 10 percent. Admissions over five weeks is a limited sample from which to draw broad conclusions, and resettlement numbers often pick up later in the fiscal year, which began in October.
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