Trump bars all refugees, visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries

US president says order would 'keep radical Islamic terrorists out of the United States of America'

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order indefinitely banning admission of people fleeing Syria, temporarily freezing the entry of other refugees and prohibiting entry by people from seven Muslim-majority nations for 90 days.

Trump said the measure would prevent terrorists from being admitted into the country. Democrats labelled the order a “Muslim ban” and criticised it as inhumane. Absent from the order was a provision from a draft of the document, obtained by Bloomberg, that would require the Defense Department to make a plan to create “safe zones” in Syria and neighbouring countries for people fleeing that nation’s