New travel ban - shouldn't it be 41 days?

[RealDave]

On January 27th , El Cheeto issues a 90 day ban. Yesterday was march 5th. & since it doesn't take effect for 10 days, shouldn't the ban now be 41 days?
Or is this Oh so important ban so irrelevant that no one in the Trump administration has done anything to improve the vetting process between Jan 27th & now? They hasven't been working on it? They made no progress?

Maybe El Trumpster worked on it WHILE GOLFING or parading himself before his club members.. But noooooooooo., Apparently, Trump has done NOTHING on this, so how important does he think this is?

 

[waltky]

A more manageable number...

New Travel Order Will Cut Refugee Admissions to Below 2,000 a Month, on Average
March 7, 2017 – President Trump’s new travel executive order issued on Monday maintains the original’s ceiling of 50,000 refugees to be resettled in the United States this fiscal year, meaning that just 12,639 more refugees are set to be admitted over the next seven months.

“... I hereby proclaim that the entry of more than 50,000 refugees in fiscal year 2017 would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, and thus suspend any entries in excess of that number until such time as I determine that additional entries would be in the national interest,” the president’s order reads. The 50,000 ceiling is below half of the one set by the Obama administration last fall for FY 2017, when it informed Congress that the U.S. would admit 110,000 refugees in FY 2017 – an increase of almost 30 percent from the FY 2016 target of 85,000. As of Monday, 37,361 refugees had been admitted since the fiscal year began last October 1, about 53 percent of them from the mostly Muslim-majority countries of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).

The countries of origin accounting for the largest single groups of resettled refugees in FY 2017 are the Democratic Republic of Congo (6,574), Syria (5,557), Iraq (5,488), Somalia (4,659), Burma (3,089), Ukraine (2,454), Bhutan (2,074), Iran (1,875) and Afghanistan (999). State Department Refugee Processing Center data show that the fiscal year has seen a steady monthly drop in admission numbers – from 9,945 in October, to 8,355 in November, to 7,371 in December, 6,777 in January and 4,579 last month. With just under seven months of the fiscal year to run, the new order will reduce the number to an average of fewer than 2,000 a month.

Trump’s order – like the Jan. 27 one which was held up by federal judges – includes a 120-day suspension of travel to the U.S. of all refugees, apart from those already formally scheduled for travel. The new order also suspends for the same length of time all decisions on applications for refugee status. During that 120-day period, the secretaries of state and homeland security, consulting with the director of national intelligence, are to review the refugee “application and adjudication processes to determine what additional procedures should be used to ensure that individuals seeking admission as refugees do not pose a threat to the security and welfare of the United States.”

Additional procedures identified as necessary will be implemented, and when refugee admissions resume after the 120 days are up, they will include only those from countries for which the two secretaries and DNI have determined the additional procedures being implemented are “adequate to ensure the security and welfare of the United States. The new order does not replicate the earlier order’s indefinite ban on the specific admission of Syrian refugees, although the wording about additional procedures deemed necessary could affect applicants from Syria, and a number of other countries as well. So far this fiscal year, 5,557 Syrian refugees have been resettled in the U.S., of whom 5,440 (97.9 percent) are Muslims (95.7 percent of the total are Sunnis), 92 are Christians, 22 are Yazidis and three are Druze.

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New Executive Order on Immigration ‘Does Not Treat Syrian Refugees Different Than Any Refugees’
March 6, 2017 | President Donald Trump issued a new executive order Monday that suspends travel for 90 days for foreign nationals from six predominantly Muslim countries - Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen - until those countries improve their screening process.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said the executive order “does not treat Syrian refugees different than any refugees." “The suspension does not treat Syrian refugees different than any refugees. It does not separately address the persecution of religious minorities, but does permit waivers in the cases of undue hardship,” he said. The previous executive order, issued on Jan. 27, suspended entry of Syrian refugees indefinitely. “I hereby proclaim that the entry of nationals of Syria as refugees is detrimental to the interests of the United States and thus suspend any such entry until such time as I have determined that sufficient changes have been made to the USRAP to ensure that admission of Syrian refugees is consistent with the national interest,” the original executive order stated.

Spicer said litigation for the previous executive order would have taken about a year resolve, and the president needed to implement a new order “that addressed the court’s concerns.” He stressed that the first executive order “was fully lawful in the first place.” “The president signed a new executive order this morning that continues to protect the nation from terrorists from entering the United States and a related presidential memorandum,” Spicer said. “As we’ve always maintained, the executive order was fully lawful in the first place, and we would have won the related legal case on the merits, but rather than leave America’s security in limbo while the litigation dragged on, some estimates having that go up to potentially a year, the president acted to protect national security by issuing a new executive order that addresses the court’s concerns - some of which merely involved clarifying the intent of the original executive order,” he said. “After reviewing the facts, after thorough consultation with the cabinet, the president has concluded these actions are necessary to protect the United States from those who unfortunately wish to do us harm,” Spicer added.

He highlighted two areas of the executive order. First, he said there would be a 90-day suspension of travel to the U.S. from those from the six countries. In the meanwhile, the State Department and Department of Homeland Security would review the targeted countries’ procedures to determine who the screening process can be improved. “These six countries have been previously identified by Congress or the Obama administration as presenting heightened concerns about terrorism, specifically Iran, Sudan, and Syria have been designated as state sponsors of terrorism. Libya is an active combat zone where violent extremist groups thrive in ungoverned territory. Portions of Somalia have been a safe haven for terrorist groups. Most countries don’t even recognize the Somali documents,” Spicer said. “Yemen is the site of an ongoing conflict between the government and an Iran-backed armed opposition. Both ISIS and al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula have exploited this conflict to expand their presence in Yemen and carry out hundreds of attacks. These governments simply cannot or not adequately supply satisfactory information about their own nationals,” he added.

Spicer said Iraq is not included in the list this time, because its government “took steps to increase their cooperation with our immigration authorities and improve their vetting process.” “We hope other countries will also take proactive action to ensure the security of all of our nations. This is proof of both the need for and the effectiveness of the president’s actions,” he said. “There are a number of exceptions to this temporary travel suspension,” Spicer said. “The order explicitly states that the suspension does not apply to 1) green card holders, 2) foreign nationals currently in the U.S., 3) foreign nationals currently holding valid visas, 4) foreign nationals who are dual citizens of a designated country traveling on a passport issued by a non-designated country, and last, foreign nationals who have been granted asylum or admitted as refugees previously,” he added.

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[RealDave]

Trump bullshit.

Trump rants how important this is yet he has done nothing to review existing vetting or put in any improvements.

If he had, the ban would be less than 90 days.

 

[Political Junky]

Hawaii is taking issue with the new ban.

Hawaii to file legal challenge over new Trump immigration order