Donald Trump's Immigration Ban Includes Green Card Holders: US

HOUSTON:  US President Donald Trump's controversial executive order banning people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering America also applies to green card holders from those countries, the Department of Homeland Security has said.

style="font-family:"Roboto","serif"; color:#333333;background:white">Keeping his election promise, Trump in an executive order signed Friday halted the arrival of foreign nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries in the US.

The countries named in the order are Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Yemen and Somalia.

"It will bar green card holders," acting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokeswoman Gillian Christensen told reporters yesterday.