Last year there were nearly 32,000 immigrant visas issued in the U.S. to the seven affected countries. Microsoft Corp. said it?s in touch with 76 staffers from the seven countries identified in the executive order. ?Too Broad?Criticism of Trump?s executive order emerged from both the left and the right. You will now receive the Technology newsletter Pursuits What to eat, drink, wear and drive ? in real life and your dreams. You will now receive the Business newsletter Markets The most important market news of the day.

May?s first trip to the White House had earlier been celebrated as a triumph, with Trump accepting a personal invitation to Buckingham Palace. Prime Minister Theresa May faces a political storm on her return from visiting Donald Trump for her repeated failure to condemn the U.S. president?s order limiting immigration from Muslim-majority countries. Nadhim Zahawi, an Iraqi-born Tory lawmaker, pointed out that the ban covered him and his wife. Only when journalists heckled her to answer for a second time did she respond: ?The United States is responsible for the United States? own policy on refugees.?Going into the White House, May knew that Trump?s policies toward Muslims were going to be a problem for her domestic audience. Another Tory, Sarah Wollaston, said Trump should not be invited to address Parliament in his state visit to London later this year.

10:26Trump is facing mounting criticism for his ban on all Syrian refugees entering the US and a halt on arrivals from a string of mostly Muslim countries, Guardian staff report. The Council on American-Islamic Relations announced it would be filing a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the order ?because its apparent purpose and underlying motive is to ban people of the Islamic faith from Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States?. Chuck Schumer, Democratic leader in the Senate, said:Tears are running down the cheeks of the Statue of Liberty tonight as a grand tradition of America, welcoming immigrants, that has existed since America was founded, has been stomped upon. The US president?s executive order, named Protection of the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States, places a 90-day block on entry to the US from citizens from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Libya and Somalia.