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Donald Trump promises new immigration decree

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US National Security Secretary John Kelly on Saturday defended the immigration decree suspended by the Justice Department and guaranteed that the new executive order contemplated by Donald Trump will be a "tighter" version of the first, which will not stop Stranded to no one at airports. In an address to the Munich Security Conference, Kelly said the new order will ensure, for example, that if a person is in transit to the United States, another country or flying, they will be able to enter US territory when they arrive. Asked if it could be assumed that those who hold a green card, the so-called "green card", will be able to enter the country, Kelly said it was "a good guess." He did not elaborate, but stressed that the purpose of the order is to study whether the seven countries affected - Lebanon, Sudan, Somalia, Syria, Iraq, Iran and Yemen - are "reliable" and "are not very much." Kelly said the Government was surprised that the Justice suspended the first order, which canceled for 120 days the entry of refugees in the country and the granting of visas to those seven Muslim-majority countries. He recalled that this measure was temporary and that his objective was to have time to analyze the security problems presented by those countries, which could be exploited by terrorists. A clear problem, he explained, is that the US does not count on them with intelligence services that give reliable information about people who want to travel and can pose a risk. Two of the countries on the list, he stressed, do not cooperate with the United States and in four of them there is no US Embassy. In opposition to his defense of the decree, German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière warned that vetoing entire countries could "cause collateral damage and not generate more security." "The more precise it is, the more effective it is," said the German minister, who called for strengthening the intelligence services. Kelly agreed on the commitment to cooperation and stressed the need to increase collaboration between the US and European countries in intelligence and information exchange, after showing their special concern for the return to the Western countries of combatants who have fought alongside jihadist groups In Syria or Iraq. "More must be done" to "protect travel, you have to know who is traveling," said the US secretary, who reiterated that aviation security remains threatened and vulnerable. Kelly defended the information collected by US authorities, from travel dates to the means of payment, to identify passengers who "may pose a risk." It also guaranteed respect for civil rights because no data on race, religion, health status or political orientation were collected and offered the American experience to the European allies.

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