TRUMP PLANS TO SIGN NEW TRAVEL BAN NEXT WEEK

TRUMP PLANS TO SIGN NEW TRAVEL BAN NEXT WEEK

President Donald Trump is planning an executive order prohibiting updated travel of some Middle East and African countries sign early next week, perhaps as early as Monday, the Department of Homeland Security, an administration official told to media , warns that it may change plans.



Trump was scheduled to sign the order last Wednesday, but pushed him back after his joint address to Congress was overwhelmingly positive reviews.
"We want the (executive order) to have their own 'moment' ', he said a senior administration official media Tuesday.
Sources have told media that the foreign minister Rex Tillerson, the Secretary of Defense James Mattis and the National Security HR McMaster have all called for Iraq from the list of banned countries of the administration in the new executive order for diplomatic reasons, including where the role of Iraq be removed ISIS battle. Homeland Security Secretary James Kelly also supported the move, but it is unclear whether the White House has made a final decision on the matter.
The news came as lawyers for the Justice Department in a court filing imminent announcement this week said that the president has in program of "dissolve" formally the old travel ban and replacing it with "a new, completely revised" executive order.
Two sources have told media that they expect the initial travel ban on the president, despite repeated statements by the White House press secretary Sean Spicer that the new executive order would exist alongside the old will have "double-track."



The Department of Justice previously indicated in court filings that there was a new executive order on the road, but in a new legal filing on Thursday, the Commission clarify the current administration decision in the formal liquidation of the existing travel ban.
In a written decision that said administration Trump two weeks to respond extension of a federal class-action lawsuit against the travel ban, Judge James Robart noted frustrations of claimants' about the apparent contradictions between what Spicer and lawyers of the Department of Justice as plans to review the ban.
[T] he will continue to court to rely on statements made by lawyers for the government, as officers of the court, stating that "dissolve" the new executive order will 'replace,' 'supersed [and]' and 'substantially revised [] 'existing executive order, "Robart wrote in its decision.
Robart is the same judge who, in another case, issued a temporary restraining order against the main provisions of the executive order, the White House rolled out in January. The order aimed at foreigners from seven Muslim-majority countries bar to enter the United States for 90 days and 120 days for all refugees

Comments