Hawzah News Agency - Condemnations poured in on Monday shortly after the new US president signed the revised order after his January’s directive faced multiple challenges in the courts in many states in the country.

The American Civil Liberties Union said there were about 12 lawsuits in courts around the country which it would amend to challenge Trump’s new executive order.

"The Trump administration has conceded that its original Muslim ban was indefensible. Unfortunately, it has replaced it with a scaled-back version that shares the same fatal flaws," said Omar Jadwat, the director of the civil rights group, in a statement.

"The only way to actually fix the Muslim ban is not to have a Muslim ban," he added. "Instead, President Trump has recommitted himself to religious discrimination, and he can expect continued disapproval from both the courts and the people."

The new directive bans citizens of six Muslim-majority countries from entering the US, but removes Iraq from the original list. It will maintain a 90-day entry ban on citizens of Iran, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen.

The Monday decree was also slammed by other rights groups, including Human Rights Watch, the Interfaith Alliance, the United Farm Workers of America, and The New York Immigration Coalition.

Referring to the new executive order as “merely cosmetic,” Human Rights Watch said, "President Trump still seems to believe you can determine who's a terrorist by knowing which country a man, woman or child is from.”

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