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US President, Donald Trump, has said his new immigration policy which affects citizens of Muslim nations is “not a Muslim ban”.

Trump had on Friday signed an executive order stopping the issuing visas to seven Muslim nations for 90 days and also suspended the US refugee programme for 120 days.

The President, while speaking to journalists at the White House on Saturday, said his administration was prepared for the new policy.

In spite of the commotion and confusion that the order has created across US airports, Trump said “it is working out very nicely”.

Trump said, “It’s not a Muslim ban but we are totally prepared. It’s working out very nicely. You see it at the airport, you see it all over, it’s working very nicely.”

He added that the ban should have been in place a long time ago.

“We are going to have a very strict ban which we should have had in this country for many years.”

Besides stopping the refugee programme, Trump also ordered an indefinite stop of admittance of Syrian refugees into the US.

Several high profile Americans, including celebrities and business moguls, have criticised the decision of Trump to shut America’s borders to those who need help.

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook co-founder, had written an open letter to Trump, reminding that the US was a nation that benefits immensely from immigrants.