Can Trump Fix His Travel Ban Executive Order?: QuickTake Q&A

President Donald Trump plans to sign a new executive order on immigration, perhaps this week, rather than continue fighting court challenges to his Jan. 27 order closing U.S. borders to refugees and citizens of seven mostly Muslim countries. The new order, he said, will be tailored to address the objections of the judges who barred enforcement of the original one.

The new order will exclude citizens of Iraq from the ban and go easier on Syrian refugees, according to a White House official. The first change is aimed at political objections to the original order, since Iraq’s inclusion threatened its cooperation with U.S. efforts to battle the terrorist group Islamic State. The original order barred citizens of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen from entering the U.S. for 90 days and refugees -- people fleeing their homelands claiming persecution or fear of violence -- for 120 days. Syrian refugees were barred indefinitely under the original order but would be included in the 120-day ban in the new order. Also, to address legal challenges, experts have suggested the order could be worded so that it clearly doesn’t apply to holders of green cards -- people who are legal permanent residents of the U.S. -- and people who already are legally in the U.S. on visas letting them in for work, study or other approved purposes.