The Trump administration is working around the clock to write a new executive order on immigration that officials hope will hold up in the courts and will be issued early next week, White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Friday.
During his free-wheeling news conference on Thursday, President Trump said White House staff and agency heads plan to put a revised version of the travel ban that a federal appeals court has blocked from implementation on his desk next week.
“The president was pretty specific yesterday when he talked about it, in terms of that it would match and address the concerns that were part of the legal complications it ran into previously,” Sanders told reporters aboard Air Force One.
Sanders said the White House expects to have a final draft of the executive order “the first part of next week” and that they will follow the same guidance as last time before sending the order to Trump for signing.
“All of the people that needed to know the last time that would be part of this process would be part of this process again,” she said.
The previous executive order raised questions about due process protections for immigrants and visa holders already living in the U.S., and about religious discrimination. Justice Department attorneys failed earlier this month to convince a three-judge panel for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a restraining order against the travel ban issued by a federal judge in Seattle.
“SEE YOU IN COURT, THE SECURITY OF OUR NATION IS AT STAKE!” Trump had tweeted soon after the ruling, which ignited a legal battle that could eventually make its way to the Supreme Court.
