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GettyDonald Trump is facing stiff opposition to his visit to the UK due to his Muslim ban
PETITION to ban US President Donald Trump from coming to Britain on a state visit has clocked up over 300,000 signatures.
The president is facing stiff opposition as hundreds of thousands of people sign the online petition urging the British government to block him from visiting the UK.
It comes in the wake of Mr Trump's controversial move to ban people from mainly Muslim countries from travelling to the US.
The number of signatures -over 100,000- almost certainly means that Parliament will have to debate it in Westminster Hall.
Any petition that receives more than 100,000 signatures in the space of six months must be up for debate by MPs.
The petition says "he should not be invited to make an official State Visit because it would cause embarrassment to Her Majesty the Queen".
It was created in response to Mr Trump's executive order to enforce a Muslim ban.
The ban came into affect on Friday to prevent people from mainly Islamic countries from entering America.
US border control must now turn travellers away from Syria, Iraq, Sudan, Iran, Libya, Yemen and Somalia over the next 90 days.
Syrian refuges have been banned from the country indefinitely.
The president is facing stiff opposition as hundreds of thousands of people sign the online petition urging the British government to block him from visiting the UK.
It comes in the wake of Mr Trump's controversial move to ban people from mainly Muslim countries from travelling to the US.
The number of signatures -over 100,000- almost certainly means that Parliament will have to debate it in Westminster Hall.
Any petition that receives more than 100,000 signatures in the space of six months must be up for debate by MPs.
The petition says "he should not be invited to make an official State Visit because it would cause embarrassment to Her Majesty the Queen".
It was created in response to Mr Trump's executive order to enforce a Muslim ban.
The ban came into affect on Friday to prevent people from mainly Islamic countries from entering America.
US border control must now turn travellers away from Syria, Iraq, Sudan, Iran, Libya, Yemen and Somalia over the next 90 days.
Syrian refuges have been banned from the country indefinitely.
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