Washington sources have stated that US President Donald Trump’s revised executive order temporarily barring citizens from seven Muslim majority countries from entering America will be phased in and will likely exempt green card holders. The Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly had said "The President is contemplating issuing a tighter, more streamlined version of the first".
He had added that “I will have, this time, the opportunity to work the roll-out plan in particular to make sure that there’s no one in a sense caught in the system moving from overseas to our airports, which happened in the first release". The phase-in period, Mattis had said, would allow people who are already in transit to the US to still enter the country, according to the Wall Street Journal.
He had also said it was a “good assumption” that green card permit holders would be allowed into the country. If they are in motion from some distant land, when they arrive, they will be allowed in. Meanwhile Trump issued his initial travel ban order on January 27, but the move immediately faced backlash, with instances of refugees and green-card holders being detained at US airports or barred from entering the country. The administration attempted to clarify after the first couple days of the order’s implementation that it did not affect green-card holders.
