{"id":331988,"date":"2017-10-25T07:56:29","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T06:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-targets-11-countries-in-new-refugee-order\/"},"modified":"2017-10-25T07:56:29","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T06:56:29","slug":"presstv-trump-targets-11-countries-in-new-refugee-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-targets-11-countries-in-new-refugee-order\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Trump targets 11 countries in new refugee order"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>President Donald Trump has issued a new executive order that lifts his worldwide temporary ban on refugees entering the United States, but imposes \u201cextreme vetting\u201d for 11 nations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump signed the order Tuesday to restart the refugee admission program, which was suspended for 120 days as part of his controversial travel ban.<\/p>\n<p>The new directive initiates a new 90-day review program for 11 countries which the administration has previously deemed &#8220;high risk,&#8221; according to a memo obtained by Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The administration did not disclose the 11 countries, but reports suggest the delay in processing would apply to Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Mali, North Korea, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>All those countries are majority-Muslim,\u00a0except for North Korea and South Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>Refugee admissions from those nations will be permitted on a case-by-case basis to determine if an entry \u201cposes no threat to the security or welfare of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/10\/25\/539795\/Trump-targets-11-countries-in-new-refugee-order\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump has issued a new executive order that lifts his worldwide temporary ban on refugees entering the United States, but imposes \u201cextreme vetting\u201d for 11 nations. Trump signed the order Tuesday to restart the refugee admission program, which was suspended for 120 days as part of his controversial travel ban. The new directive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-331988","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}