White House reverses travel ban on green card holders

The White House appeared to reverse a key component of Donald Trump’s immigration ban Sunday morning, announcing that residents with green cards from the seven affected countries would not be banned from entering the United States.

White House chief of staff, Reince Priebus, defends the controversial executive order that bans immigration from Muslim-majority countries.On Saturday, travelers around the world, legal US residents who hold green cards, were denied entry into the country, prevented from boarding planes, and detained in airports.

Now, Mr Priebus is promising that the ban will not affect green card holders going forward, unless the travelers were considered suspicious.

"If you're an American citizen travelling back and forth to Libya, you are likely to be subjected to further questioning when you come into an airport," he said on the program, adding, "There is discretionary authority that a custom and border patrol agent has when they suspect that someone is up to no good when they travel back and forth to Libya or Yemen."