"It was the people in the streets, it was the people in the airports across the country that defeated (the initial executive order)," he said at a news conference in front of the Chicago office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. "We will continue to be out in the streets, we will continue to organize. We will continue to protest, and we will defeat this one as well. James Carafano, who oversaw national security planning during Trump's transition, said the executive order is an attempt to keep up with terrorists' traffic patterns. The six noted countries are likely destinations for thousands of foreign fighters coming out of conflict zones, he said. Not only do al-Qaida and ISIS already have footprints there, he said, those countries also don't have adequate procedures to keep members of the organization in the country.