Executive Summary: On March 6, 2017, President Trump issued a new Executive Order (EO) entitled “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States,” which was to take effect today, March 16, 2017. The new EO explicitly revokes President Trump’s earlier EO travel ban issued January 27, 2017. Although the new EO was more specific and narrowly drafted to address the judicial concerns that led to the first EO being blocked by federal courts and the Ninth Circuit, on March 15, 2017, a Federal judge in Hawaii granted a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump administration from enforcing or implementing two sections of the new EO: the travel ban on nationals of Syria, Sudan, Iran, Somalia, Libya and Yemen (Section 2) and 120-day suspension on all refugee entries (Section 6).
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