President Donald Trump on Friday indicated that his administration will come out with new security measures while his executive order is on hold.
“We are going to keep our country safe. We are going to do whatever is necessary to keep our country safe. We had a decision which we think will be very successful with,” Trump said at a White House press conference when asked about his order suspended by federal courts that would suspend the refugee program and bar visitors from seven predominantly Muslim countries. “So we’ll be doing something very rapidly, having to do with additional security for our country. You’ll be seeing that sometime next week.”
“We’ll be going forward, we’ll be doing things to continue to make our country safe. It will happen rapidly, and we will not allow people into our country who are looking to do harm to our people,” Trump added. “We will allow lots of people into our country that will love our people and do good for our country. It’s always going to be that way, at least during my administration. I can tell you that.”
The President spoke at a press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The two leaders are scheduled to travel to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort for the weekend.
The President’s comments followed a report by NBC News, citing an unnamed senior official, that the White House is working on a new version of the order.
Trump also said that he believes his administration will win its court fight over the executive order.
“We will continue to go through the court process, and ultimately I have no doubt that we’ll win that particular case,” he said.
The President also repeated his concerns about the vetting process and assured that he will keep the country safe.
“I feel totally confident that we will have tremendous security for the people of the United States. We will be extreme vetting, which is a term that I developed early in my campaign, because I saw what was happening,” he said. “And while I’ve been president, which is just for a very short period of time, I’ve learned tremendous things that you could only learn, frankly, if you were in a certain position, namely President, and there are tremendous threats to our country. We will not allow that to happen. I can tell you that right now. We will not allow that to happen.”
