Sometime today President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order stopping the inflow of Syrian refugees and placing a moratorium on granting visas to people from Syria an six other Muslim nations with close ties to terrorism.

U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to sign executive orders starting on Wednesday that include a temporary ban on most refugees and a suspension of visas for citizens of Syria and six other Middle Eastern and African countries, say congressional aides and immigration experts briefed on the matter.

Trump, who tweeted that a “big day” was planned on national security on Wednesday, is expected to ban for several months the entry of refugees into the United States, except for religious minorities escaping persecution, until more aggressive vetting is in place.

Another order will block visas being issued to anyone from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, said the aides and experts, who asked not to be identified.

Right now the contents are unknown but Huffington Post has more details from sources:

The executive order could still change before Trump signs it, which could happen this week. According to sources, administration officials are considering:

• Blocking refugees from war-torn Syria from entering the U.S. indefinitely.

• Suspending all refugee admissions for 120 days while the administration determines which countries pose the least risk.

• Temporarily suspending visa issuances to people in countries where the administration considers security screening inadequate ― meaning people from those countries couldn’t enter the U.S. at all.

• Capping total refugee admissions for fiscal year 2017 at 50,000 ― less than half of the 110,000 proposed by the Obama administration.

The executive order is expected to include a list of acts that would disqualify an individual from entering the U.S., two sources briefed on the language said. People who commit honor killings, bigotry, violence against women, or who persecute against people on the basis of religion, race, gender, or sexual orientation, would not be admitted, they said. The U.S. already denies admission to persecutors, criminals and human rights abusers.

Despite mewling from various groups with a vested interest in creating large populations of culturally un-assimilatable and potentially disloyal immigrants there is no doubt the orders are legal.

Stephen Legomsky, who was chief counsel at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in the Obama administration, said the president had the authority to limit refugee admissions and the issuance of visas to specific countries if the administration determined it was in the public’s interest.

“From a legal standpoint, it would be exactly within his legal rights,” said Legomsky, a professor at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis. “But from a policy standpoint, it would be terrible idea because there is such an urgent humanitarian need right now for refugees.”

This is a great start. An even better start would be for Trump to start bringing in Middle Eastern Christians as a priority class.