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		</div><p>Donald Trump has barred all refugees from entering the United States for four months &#8211; and those from war-ravaged Syria indefinitely.</p>
<p>He says the move is part of his plan to stop &#8220;radical Islamic terrorists&#8221;.</p>
<p>The president&#8217;s order immediately suspended a programme that resettled to the US about 85,000 people displaced by war, political oppression, hunger and religious prejudice last year.</p>
<p>And Mr Trump indefinitely blocked all those fleeing Syria, where a civil war has displaced millions of people, and imposed a 90-day ban on entry to the US from seven Muslim-majority nations.</p>
<p>&#8220;We want to ensure that we are not admitting into our country the very threats our soldiers are fighting overseas,&#8221; Mr Trump said as he signed the order at the Pentagon.</p>
<p>&#8220;We only want to admit those into our country who will support our country and love deeply our people.&#8221;</p>
<p>He said the halt to the refugee programme was necessary to give government agencies time to develop a stricter vetting system &#8211; but the order spells out what additional steps he wants the homeland security and state departments to take.</p>
<p>The US may admit refugees on a case-by-case basis during the freeze and the government will continue to process requests from people claiming religious persecution &#8220;provided that the religion of the individual is a minority religion in the individual&#8217;s country&#8221;.</p>
<p>In an interview with CBN News, Mr Trump said persecuted Christians would be given priority in applying for refugee status.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are going to help them,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They&#8217;ve been horribly treated.&#8221;</p>
<p>The order was signed on Mr Trump&#8217;s most robust day of national security and foreign policy at the start of his presidency, marked by a meeting with British prime minister Theresa May and a lengthy phone call with Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto.</p>
<p>As a presidential candidate, Mr Trump called for a temporary ban on all Muslim immigration to the US and later shifted his focus to putting in place &#8220;extreme vetting&#8221; procedures to screen people coming from countries with terrorism ties.</p>
<p>Which countries are affected?</p>
<p>The State Department said the three-month ban in the directive applied to Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen &#8211; all Muslim-majority nations.</p>
<p>The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), said it would file a legal action on Monday, challenging the constitutionality of the executive order.</p>
<p>&#8220;There is no evidence that refugees &#8211; the most thoroughly vetted of all people entering our nation &#8211; are a threat to national security,&#8221; said the group&#8217;s national litigation director Lena Masri. &#8220;This is an order that is based on bigotry, not reality.&#8221;</p>
<p>During the past budget year, the US accepted 84,995 refugees, including 12,587 people from Syria.<br />
Barack Obama had set the refugee limit for this budget year at 110,000 but Mr Trump, according to the executive order, plans to slash that to 50,000.</p>
<p>Refugee processing was suspended in the immediate aftermath of the September 11 2001 attacks and restarted months later.</p>
<p>The president was applauded by House of Representatives speaker Paul Ryan, who said it was &#8220;time to re-evaluate and strengthen the visa-vetting process&#8221;.</p>
<p>But many Democrats cast the measures as un-American.</p>
<p>&#8220;Tears are running down the cheeks of the Statue of Liberty tonight as a grand tradition of America, welcoming immigrants, that has existed since America was founded has been stomped upon,&#8221; said Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer.</p>
<p>Mr Trump&#8217;s order was signed on Holocaust Remembrance Day, which brought to mind the global effort to help refugees during the Second World War and its aftermath.</p>
<p>The order makes no mention of a plan to provide safe zones in Syria and the surrounding area.<br />
The president&#8217;s directive capped a hectic first week for Mr Trump at the White House, giving Americans an initial look at how he intends to position the United States around the world.</p>
<p>Earlier, he hosted Mrs May at the White House for his first meeting with a world leader since taking office.</p>
<p>Asked about whether he would revert to Bush-era use of torture, Mr Trump said he would defer to the views of defence secretary Jim </p>
<p>&#8220;He has stated publicly that he does not necessarily believe in torture or waterboarding, or however you want to define it. I don&#8217;t necessarily agree,&#8221; Mr Trump said. &#8220;But I would tell you that he will override because I&#8217;m giving him that power. He&#8217;s an expert.&#8221;</p>
<p>News organisations have obtained copies of a draft executive order signalling sweeping changes to US interrogation and detention policy.</p>
<p>The draft, which the White House said was not official, also requests recommendations on whether the US should reopen CIA detention facilities outside the United States.</p>
<p>Critics said the clandestine sites have marred America&#8217;s image on the world stage.</p>
<p>Mr Trump also held firm on Friday on another controversy &#8211; trade and illegal immigration from Mexico.<br />
He told reporters he had a &#8220;very good call&#8221; with Mr Pena Nieto earlier in the day, but he reaffirmed his belief that Mexico had &#8220;out-negotiated and beat us to a pulp&#8221; on trade, and that would change.</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re no longer going to be the country that doesn&#8217;t know what it&#8217;s doing,&#8221; he declared, a day after the Mexican leader cancelled his visit to Washington in response to Mr Trump&#8217;s plans to build a border wall and make Mexico pay for it.</p>
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