Kelly: Trump is working on a "streamlined" travel ban

[DonViejo]

Source: Associated Press



SATURDAY, FEB 18, 2017 02:16 PM EST
DAVID RISING, ASSOCIATED PRESS

MUNICH (AP) — President Donald Trump is working on a “streamlined” version of his executive order banning travel from seven predominantly Muslim nations to iron out the difficulties that landed his first order in the courts, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said Saturday.

Speaking on a panel about combating terrorism at the Munich Security Conference, Kelly said Trump’s original order was designed as a “temporary pause” to allow him to “see where our immigration and vetting system has gaps — and gaps it has — that could be exploited.”

He said the Trump administration was surprised when U.S. courts blocked it from implementing the executive order and now “the president is contemplating releasing a tighter, more streamlined version” of the travel ban.

Kelly said this next time he will be able to “make sure that there’s no one caught in the system of moving from overseas to our airports.”

Read more: http://www.salon.com/2017/02/18/kelly-trump-is-working-on-a-streamlined-travel-ban/

[bucolic_frolic]

1. RESIST

Hope it withers in court too

[tenorly]

2. Basically: "If it's all white; it's all right"

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"Let's go visit Drumpf's America, ja?"[/center]

[LuvLoogie]

3. Go back to Holland, MI, Betsy.

[Blanks]

4. Obama wanted congress to pass a law...

One has to wonder what kind of "intelligence" Trump received that made him believe that he needed to 'do something right now' but felt it wasn't enough of a priority to work on with congress to get it resolved before they (congress) went on recess.

Good luck blaming a terrorist attack on the courts after they dropped the ball on putting something in place immediately.

[Eugene]

5. New U.S. travel ban to spare green card holders: Trump official

Source: Reuters

POLITICS | Sat Feb 18, 2017 | 5:57pm EST

New U.S. travel ban to spare green card holders: Trump official

A new version of a Trump administration travel ban will not stop green card residency holders or travelers already on planes from entering the United States, U.S. Secretary for Homeland Security John Kelly said on Saturday.

U.S. President Donald Trump's initial attempt to clamp down for security reasons on immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries and on refugees snarled to a halt amid a judicial backlash and chaos at airports.

"The president is contemplating releasing a tighter, more streamlined version of the first (order). And I will have opportunity to work (on) a rollout plan, in particular to make sure that there's no one in a sense caught in the system of moving from overseas to our airports," Kelly said at the Munich Security Conference.

Asked whether green card residency permit holders would be allowed in, Kelly said: "It's a good assumption and, as far as the visas go, ... if they're in motion from some distant land to the United States, when they arrive they will be allowed in."

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-immigration-idUSKBN15X0O6