Immigration orders 'a massive success story', Trump official says – live

More pictures and videos from airport protests around the US – LA, Atlanta, San Diego and Philadelphia.

Despite that administration comment, it’s fair to say there has been a lot of confusion about the scope of the orders. There have been numerous legal challenges – one is detailed here – and homeland secretary John Kelly was forced to issue a statement clarifying that green card holders were exempt from the ban after reports that some were prevented from getting into the US.

His officials have issued a fact sheet to help us through the details.

Main points are here:

• For the next 90 days, nearly all travelers, except US citizens, traveling from Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Iran, Somalia, Libya, and Yemen will be temporarily suspended from entry to the US. In that time a proper review and establishment of standards to prevent terrorist or criminal infiltration by foreign nationals will be carried out.
  

• “Lawful permanent residents” of the US traveling on a valid I-551 (green cards) will be allowed to enter the US.

• In the first 30 days, DHS will perform a global country-by-country review of the information each country provides when their citizens apply for a US visa or immigration benefit. Countries will then have 60 days to comply with any requests from the US government to update or improve the quality of the information they provide.

• The countrys refugee admissions program will be temporarily suspended for the next 120 days while DHS and interagency partners review screening procedures to ensure refugees admitted in the future do not pose a security risk.
  

Thanks for the contributions so far. Here is a picture from Gareth Rogers showing the protest at Detroit airport.

This was sent to my colleague @ambiej via Twitter showing the scene at Bradley international airport near Hartford, Connecticut.

But not everyone reading the blog is of one mind. An email from a reader signing off as Georgina Heinrich says that “most working people” in the US welcome the crackdown and that it was “about time the US looked after its own border control”. Plenty to debate there.

Gregg Popovich, the San Antonio Spurs head coach and consistent Trump critic, has called the immigration order “like the Keystone Kops”.

As you know, I have lots of thoughts about what we’ve done to ourselves as country and what we’ve allowed to happen. But we’ll see where this goes. Obviously the roll-out today was Keystone Kops-like by any measure with objectivity. Whether you want to say it’s good or bad is irrelevant. But it was keystone Kops and that’s scary.

John Kasich, Ohio governor and one of the dozen or more candidates beaten by Trump to the Republican nomination, has called the order “ham-handed” and questioned why White House officials had allowed it to be issued.

He told the Washington Post:

In probably many Arab capitals today, people are like, ‘What is America doing?’
Frankly, when I look at this, I think he was ill-served by his staff. If I were the president, I’d be very upset with the staff — that they didn’t say, ‘Hey, wait hold on a second.’ Because that’s what executives do. They have people around them that help them to understand, ‘Hey, your message is fine, but here is what’s going to come from it.’

Thanks Amber. I’m Martin Farrer and I’ll be taking you through the next few hours of news and reaction surrounding the Trump immigration order.

Thanks for all the reader contributions so far at @ambiej You can also send them now to me – @MartinFarrer – or on my email at martin.farrer@theguardian.com

First up, our US west coast video producer, Adithya Sambamurthy has been at San Francisco airport where protesters have reportedly blocked one of the departure gates, amid chants of “no ban, no wall” and “let them in”.

Looks like there are a lot of folks at the #sfoprotest. I especially like the “eat hummus” banner.