“They can’t unring the bell.”
Eric T. Schneiderman, the attorney general of New York
and a plaintiff in a suit seeking to block the first order, said his office was reviewing the new ban, adding, “I stand ready to litigate — again — in order to protect New York’s families, institutions and economy.”
Congressional Republicans, who were split over the first travel ban, had a more muted reaction.
Trump’s New Travel Ban Blocks Migrants From Six Nations, Sparing Iraq -
By GLENN THRUSHMARCH 6, 2017
WASHINGTON — President Trump signed an executive order on Monday blocking citizens of six predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United
States, the most significant hardening of immigration policy in generations, even with changes intended to blunt legal and political opposition.
The removal of Iraq from the list came after talks with security officials in Baghdad and at the urging of Mr. Mattis and State Department officials, who have been in communication with Iraqi officials alarmed
that the ban will turn public sentiment in their country against the United States.
Jeff Sessions, the attorney general; Rex W. Tillerson, the secretary of state;
and John F. Kelly, the secretary of Homeland Security, discussed President Trump’s revised travel ban.
“On the basis of negotiations that have taken place between the government of Iraq
and the U. S. Department of State in the last month, Iraq will increase cooperation with the U. S. government on the vetting of its citizens applying for a visa to travel to the United States,” homeland security officials wrote in a fact sheet given to reporters.
