“Republicans on Sunday showed signs of growing restiveness over President Trump’s refugee policy, in its substance and the confusion over the way it was carried out, including one prominent senator who said it served as propaganda for the Islamic State,” the New York Times reports.

Said Sen. John McCain (R-AZ): “I think the effect in some areas will give ISIS some more propaganda.”

However, Vox notes the vast majority of Republican lawmakers have stayed silent.

Playbook: “No matter what you think about this policy, it’s going to make life harder for Trump. First, it’s Trump’s biggest political blow since taking office. There are already a spate of legal challenges that will grab headlines for weeks. It’s splitting his party — only a handful of Republicans have spoken out against him but privately, a large number of GOP lawmakers are grumbling. If congressional Republicans were for this policy, they could pass legislation to codify it into law. They haven’t and probably won’t. They had no heads up from their president this was coming, and now they’re under pressure to defend this.”

Politico: “Now, what was meant as a bold assertion of presidential prerogative and a down payment on his promise to ‘eradicate radical Islamic terrorism from the face of the Earth’ has dealt President Trump his first political defeat, and energized his opponents after a week of demoralizing developments.”

“This whole idea that they’re being separated and ripped from their families, it’s temporary.”

— Kellyanne Conway, quoted by Politico, adding that the immigration ban President Trump ordered is a “small price to pay” for greater security.

“To build his highly touted deportation force, President Trump is reviving a long-standing program that deputizes local officers to enforce federal immigration law,” the AP reports.

“The program received scant attention during a week in which Trump announced plans to build a border wall, hire thousands more federal agents and impose restrictions on refugees from Middle Eastern countries. But the program could end up having a significant impact on immigration enforcement around the country, despite falling out of favor in recent years amid complaints that it promotes racial profiling.”

White House chief of staff Reince Priebus “appeared to reverse a key part of President Trump’s immigration order on Sunday, saying that people from the affected countries who hold green cards will not be prevented from returning to the United States,” the New York Times reports.

But Priebus “also said that border agents had ‘discretionary authority’ to detain and question suspicious travelers from certain countries. That statement seemed to add to the uncertainty over how the executive order will be interpreted and enforced in the days ahead.”