Trump orders Syrian refugee ban, military rebuild

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday indefinitely banning admission of people fleeing Syria, temporarily freezing the entry of other refugees and prohibiting entry by people from at least four majority-Muslim nations for 90 days.

Trump said the measure would prevent terrorists from being admitted into the country. Democrats labelled the order a "Muslim ban" and criticised it as inhumane. Absent from the order was a provision from a draft of the document, obtained by Bloomberg, requiring the Defense Department to make a plan to create "safe zones" in Syria and neighbouring countries for people fleeing the civil war.

Bloomberg