Below is what happened on Trump's 31st day in office. You can find out what damage was done every other day so far on the Saddest Calendar on the Internet.After multiple delays, Trump signed a new executive order banning travel from six majority-Muslim countries today. While the order reflects that the administration has made a handful of compromises since the original executive order that caused chaos and controversy when it was signed in January, the new measure is still a "Muslim ban."The original executive order called for a handful of anti-immigrant, Islamophobic regulations, centering on the regulation that citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries be barred from entering the US, despite visa status.The most notable directive of the new order, titled "Executive Order Protecting The Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into The United States," is the 90-day hold on issuing visas to those from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. (Iraq, which the order calls "a special case," was included in the original order but was removed because "the Iraqi government has expressly undertaken steps to enhance travel documentation, information sharing, and the return of Iraqi nationals subject to final orders of removal" since the first order). The new order also stops the admission of all refugees for 120 days and "removes language that appeared to give priority to Christian refugees applying from predominantly Muslim countries," as reported by POLITICO.While the new order has rolled back on certain calls, its sentiment is unchanged. According to the New York Times, the new order and its promises of "extreme vetting" disregards the current screening protocol as well as "the fact that none of the terrorist attacks or mass shootings on American soil in recent years were perpetrated by attackers from the six nations listed in the ban."While signed today, the new order is granting a 10-day delay "to allow coordination before the measure kicks in." Furthermore, the suspension of granting refugee status "shall not apply to refugee applicants who, before the effective date of this order, have been formally scheduled for transit by the Department of State," the order reads.The ACLU has already responded disapprovingly. "The only way to actually fix the Muslim ban is not to have a Muslim ban," reads the organization's official response. "Instead, President Trump has recommitted himself to religious discrimination, and he can expect continued disapproval from both the courts and the people."
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