US President Donald Trump is considering a substantial overhaul of the nation's immigration system, with more changes possible in the weeks ahead.
A top White House aide says new protocols will require at least some travelers to confirm their "support and love" for the United States before they're granted a visa.
Protests in America and around the world are continuing to grow, following the President's enforcement of a temporary ban on immigration from 7 countries with predominantly Muslim populations.
The stage is set for another hectic week in Washington, with President Trump poised on Tuesday to unveil his nominee for a vacant seat on the US Supreme Court.
In his "Washington Notebook", our US Correspondent Simon Marks says it's exhausting trying to keep up with the country's new President.
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I'm not sure how much more of this Washington can take.
By that, I don't mean that I think the President is in any immediate political danger.
Or that I expect very much to change as we clatter on through the dizzying second week of his Presidency.
It's pretty clear that this pace is going to continue….and that he is the pace setter, keen to prove to his core supporters across the country that finally there is a man of action in the White House who does what he promised.
We haven't had many of those here lately.
But the days since Donald Trump's inauguration have been so fraught…charged…polarizing…and abnormal….that if this is the new normal, it's going to be unsustainable for many here.
Never mind the journalists….though as I lost another weekend of my life to a President without an off switch we're already pretty drained by the experience of covering his administration.
This is a city with a natural rhythm that has now been turned upside down.
It's like a jazz ensemble suddenly being ordered to play punk….or the Washington Redskins (that's an American football team for the uninitiated) suddenly being told their new game is cricket.
Nothing is the way it was just a few days ago.
The President signs Executive Orders that have a direct impact on people not just all over the country but around the world.
And yet the White House doesn't publish them in a timely fashion so voters, analysts, policymakers…and yes, the media….can actually find out what he's done.
His own top officials fan out on the Sunday television talk shows without any idea of what they're actually planning to say….and the world witnesses policy being made up on the fly.
Never mind the traditional era of people sticking to their talking points, or executive actions being pre-cleared by the Department of Justice….just to make sure they're, you know, legal.
All of that has gone out of the window.
So too, have many of the traditions of government.
Consider the National Security Council …the President's own in-house, foreign policy advisory body.
This weekend we learned that its composition is changing: gone from the NSC are people who actually know something about national security…men like the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff or the Director of National Intelligence.
No, they've been replaced by the President's chief adviser - former Breitbart News executive and far-right gadfly Stephen Bannon….a man with absolutely no national security credentials whatsoever.
As Barack Obama's National Security Adviser Susan Rice put it….it's "stone cold crazy".
Now she's no fan of President Trump….but that kind of language has had no place here previously.
The way this city has operated for decades simply doesn't jive with the way the Trump loyalists — none of them really centrist, old-style Republicans - want to work.
They think it's just fine to run the White House and the country like a raucous student's union.
They think it's fine to have a President with a Twitter account….he used it on Sunday to go after two highly respected Republican Senators who had dared to criticize his restrictions on immigration….and then on Monday to attack a top Democrat for tearing up during a press conference on the immigration ban.
"Fake tears" he claimed, during a press appearance here.
Can the center here hold…..can Washington find a new way of working under circumstances that seem manic daily, and completely out of kilter with the way things have always worked here.
Don't get me wrong: those ways weren't unimpeachable.
But President Trump, in only week two on the job, is throwing down one heck of a challenge to everyone who works here.
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