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Similar hardline bills have been filed in Ohio, Tennessee, North Carolina, Iowa, Idaho and Pennsylvania -- all states Donald Trump carried on Election Day.

U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson ordered a temporary halt to Trump's revised travel ban citing "significant and unrebutted evidence of religious animus" behind it.

The president vowed to challenge a federal judge's ruling to halt his travel ban.

The Democratic senator said the controversial travel ban would aid the Islamic State group (ISIS) in recruiting people for their actions of terrorism.

In his ruling, Judge Chuang said: “The history of public statements continues to provide a convincing case that the purpose of the Second Executive Order remains the realization of the long-envisioned Muslim ban.”

U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson said the ban is likely a violation of the First Amendment.

The number of Americans who successfully received work visas from the authorities also increased by about 18 percent compared to the same corresponding period last year.

The eight people kidnapped worked for the American charity Samaritan’s Purse, an evangelical Christian International Relief organization based in Boone, North Carolina.

The notorious political terrorist, now 67, is already serving two separate life sentences for his crimes.

Tens of thousands of people have been killed in the five-year civil war, prompting at least 1.5 million to flee the East African nation.

The hate messages began Monday when President Donald Trump signed a second executive order barring citizens from six Muslim countries from entering the U.S.

The state will become the first to challenge the new executive order, signed by President Donald Trump on Monday, when it files a lawsuit against it Wednesday.

About half of the West African country's residents are Muslims. The other half are Christians. 

Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak praised the production cuts, conducted in a joint effort with OPEC, and said the oil market would've been "chaos" without them.

This is first such global terrorism warning since Donald Trump assumed office in January as the U.S. president.

Latest official figures showed 2,281 refugee claims were made between Jan.1 and Feb. 21 compared to 1,803 asylum claims at the same time last year.

The father of fallen U.S. army officer Humayun Khan cancelled a speech that he was scheduled to give in Toronto, Canada over possible travel restrictions.

“The only way to actually fix the Muslim ban is not to have a Muslim ban,” said Omar Jadwat, head of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Immigrants’ Rights Project.

Critics have claimed that President Donald Trump’s revised executive order travel ban continues to constitute a “Muslim ban.”

"Let's call it what it is. This ban is a racist and anti-Islamic attempt to divide us up," said the Vermont senator.

Iraq was on the original "travel ban" issued by the White House in January, but was dropped from the newest executive order released Monday.