It was not immediately clear if the 11 countries referred to in Trump’s executive order were the same ones.The Trump administration issued a separate revised travel ban last month, barring entry to immigrants from Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen. That executive order was temporarily halted by a US district judge last week, hours before its implementation.As a candidate, Trump vowed to ban all Muslims from entering the US. He also stood aggressively against the acceptance of refugees from Syria, stating that those fleeing the war-torn country “may be Isis”.“There’s absolutely no way of saying where these people come from,” Trump said at a town hall in February 2016.The United States has one of the most stringent vetting systems in the world with respect to refugees. Statistics released by the Department of Homeland Security in June showed that the number of refugees admitted to the US had dropped by nearly 50% under Trump, when compared with the final months of Barack Obama’s presidency.The executive order issued on Tuesday will also place on hold a program that allows for family reunification for some refugees resettled in the US. The resettling of so-called following-to-join refugees will resume once screening “enhancements have been implemented”.Opponents of Trump’s travel and refugee bans have argued that the policies were aimed at barring Muslims entry to the US.

Source: Libya Today October 25, 2017 07:07 UTC