New Trump order drops Iraq from travel ban list

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Donald Trump&&num;8217&semi;s new immigration order will remove Iraq from the list of countries whose citizens face a temporary US travel ban&comma; according to officials&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Four officials said the administration&&num;8217&semi;s decision follows pressure from the Pentagon and State Department&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;They had urged the White House to reconsider Iraq&&num;8217&semi;s inclusion given its key role in fighting the Islamic State group&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;It is designed to replace an earlier order blocked by federal courts&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The officials said six countries &&num;8211&semi; Iran&comma; Libya&comma; Somalia&comma; Sudan&comma; Syria and Yemen &&num;8211&semi; will remain on the travel ban list&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump is expected to sign the executive order in the coming days&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The new order includes other changes&period; The officials said the 12-page document no longer singles out Syrian refugees for an indefinite ban and instead includes them as part of a general&comma;120-day suspension of new refugee admissions&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The officials also said the order will not include any explicit exemption for religious minorities in the countries targeted by the travel ban&period; Critics had accused the administration of adding such language to help Christians get into the US while excluding Muslims&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Mr Trump signed his original executive order in late January&period; It sparked immediate confusion&comma; panic and outrage as some travellers were detained in US airports before being sent back overseas and others were barred from boarding flights at foreign airports&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The government initially blocked US green card holders before offering those legal residents special permission to come into the country&period; It finally decided the order did not apply to them&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The State Department provisionally revoked about 60&comma;000 valid visas before a federal judge in Washington state blocked the government from carrying out the ban&period; The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals upheld that decision&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Under the revised order&comma; officials said&comma; all existing visas will be honoured&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The changes follow a report by intelligence analysts at the Homeland Security Department&comma; which found insufficient evidence that citizens of the seven Muslim-majority countries posed a terror threat to the US&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed11d3403b2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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