
Washington - The call for resistance, announcements of lawsuits and campaigns in social networks are initiatives that various sectors of the United States promote today to condemn the new immigration order of President Donald Trump.
After the president signed on Monday a revised executive order of the travel ban approved last January, many voices criticized the measure and baptized it as a Muslim Ban 2.0, in reference to it being only a modification of the previous one.
Trump's government admitted that its original guideline was indefensible, but replaced it with a reduced version that shares the same fatal flaws, the American Civil Liberties Union said in a statement.
David Cole, the National Legal Director of that organization, said in a video conference that the measure continues to target only countries that are predominantly Muslim. All of the six countries targeted by the immigration ban are over 90 percent Muslim.
That intent violates the first principle of the Establishment Clause, in the same way as in the original order, which forbids the government from singling out particular religions for favor or disfavor, said the lawyer, who sent a message to the White House: we'll see you in court.
New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman also said the measure remains discriminatory and said that the authorities in that territory are ready to go to court against him.
On January 27, the president signed an order prohibiting the entry of people from seven predominantly Muslim nations for 90 days and suspending the refugee shelter program for four months- indefinitely in the case of the Syrians.
Unlike the regulations, which generated strong protests and was blocked in court, the new guideline removes Iraq from the list, so it will apply to Iran, Sudan, Yemen, Syria, Libya, and Somalia. The revised order will also keep in place a 120-day suspension of the refugee program, but it will no longer identify Syrian refugees as subject to an indefinite ban.
Such changes, however, are not considered sufficient by different political, social and religious groups, who since last night took to the streets to show discontent.
