BREAKING: Trump’s “Extraordinarily Cruel” Order Bars 500,000 Green Card Holders From Re-Entering U.S.

Students Who Return Home To Visit Won’t Be Allowed Back In

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security confirmed Saturday that people with green cards will be barred from re-entering the United States under an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Friday. 

The executive order prohibits people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. for 90 days. Reuters reported on Saturday that the ban applies to legal permanent U.S. residents. 

“It will bar green card holders,” Gillian Christensen, acting Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman, told the news service.

ProPublica reported Friday that if the order is applied to green card holders, it could prevent up to 500,000 legal residents from returning to the US if they leave. 

Stephen Legomsky, a former chief counsel on citizenship and immigration under President Barack Obama, called the order “extraordinarily cruel.” 

“If applied literally, this provision would bar even those visitors who had made temporary trips abroad, for example a student who went home on winter break and is now returning,” Legomsky said.