The United States President Donald Trump on Thursday said he will announce a new executive order on immigration next week, AFP reported.
 
"We will be issuing a new and very comprehensive order to protect our people," he told a news conference.
 
According to the report, the Justice Department announced soon after that it wants to drop an appeal against a court ruling that suspended the travel ban targeting nationals from seven mainly Muslim countries as well as all refugees.
 
Trump nevertheless hailed the introduction of the travel ban as smooth.
 
He criticized the court order suspending the ban as "a very bad decision, very bad for the safety and security of our country. The rollout was perfect."
 
The Justice Department announced it would drop the attempt to salvage Trump's executive order in a brief filed with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.
 
But it is not a given the case will be dropped. The government asked that it at least be put aside as the administration prepares its new immigration order.
 
The new order would address complaints from a three-judge panel of the court to the effect that parts of the first order were unconstitutional, the department said.