Foreign US officials consider filing rare objection over Muslim ban

In a rare move, a number of US Foreign Service officials based overseas are planning to register their objection to Trump's executive order.

According to ABC News, drafts of a “dissent” memo have been circulating among diplomats and associates abroad expressing concern that the new restrictions against Muslim immigration will actually harm efforts to stop  attacks inside the US.

"This ban ... will not achieve its stated aim to protect the American people from terrorist attacks by foreign nationals admitted to the United States,” says one draft, seen by ABC.

"Given the near-absence of terror attacks committed in recent years” by visa-holders from Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Iran, Libya or Sudan, “this ban will have little practical effect in improving public safety,” it adds, comparing the order to the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War 2.

"Decades from now we will look back and realize we made the same mistakes."