Enda Kenny announces a review of US immigration points at Irish airports in the wake of Donald Trump's immigration ban.

Four Welsh Labour MPs are expected to defy the party leadership and vote against triggering Brexit.

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"The narrow majority of British voters that cast their ballots for Britain to leave the EU did not, to a person, have in their mind's eye a libertarian fantasy state as their end goal," says Labour's Angela Eagle.

"They were told they could expect, and they voted for, more money for crucial services and for sensible controls on immigration."

However, she claims, those voters face continuing "austerity cuts".

The referendum result "does not give the government carte blanche for an extreme Brexit", she says.

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The SNP's Stuart C McDonald asks whether the government will look again at the application form used for those applying for UK residency.

"Why is it so long?" he asks.

I've taken a look at it, says Amber Rudd, noting that the full 85 pages do not need to be completed.

Ms Rudd says that while the number of applications for residency have "understandably" gone up, the government is still within its target of processing them on time.

Mr McDonald presses Ms Rudd further, on whether visas will be required for EU residents visiting the EU, post-Brexit.

"That is something that we would seek to avoid in any discussions," the home secretary confirms.

The European Council head warns the administration may reverse 70 years of US foreign policy.

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On immigration, Conservative Ranil Jayawardena asks Amber Rudd to confirm that the government will protect the status of EU nationals, as long as reciprocal arrangements can be make for UK residents overseas.

Mr Jayawardena also mentions that letters have been received by some EU residents currently in the UK applying for residency, telling them to make arrangements to leave.

Amber Rudd says that she is aware of the specific letters that have been sent out, and has ensured that the language has changed and they are "no longer going out."

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SNP MP Deidre Brock says a government that was "confident it was pursuing the right ends" would have no problem consulting Parliament, yet this government was "dragged through the courts".

She describes those who brought the Article 50 case, such as investment manager Gina Miller, as "democracy campaigners".

Ms Brock also argues that the UK government would be happy to consult the devolved administrations "if it was confident of its ground".

Turning to one of those UK nations in particular, she tells MPs: "The prospect of a return to a hard border [with the Republic of Ireland] is horrendous for communities and businesses in Northern Ireland."

And the Edinburgh MP insists: "The SNP will not support the triggering of Article 50. We believe that Scotland's place is in the EU."

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Can you confirm that the change of policy in the US does not change the UK's policy towards refugees? asks Conservative MP James Berry, noting that he'd received correspondence from worried constituents. 

"Absolutely correct," replies Amber Rudd.

Mr Berry also notes that the Trump ban "differs" from when President Obama's administration banned visas from Iraqi refugees for six months in 2011.

Ms Rudd confirms that this is also correct.

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Labour MP Emma Reynolds says she supported remaining in the EU but will vote in favour of the bill triggering Article 50 to leave.

"The leader of the Liberal Democrats calls this cowardly," she says. "I call it democracy."

However, she adds: "That doesn't mean that the government gets a free pass... After all the government is accountable to this place."

Ms Reynolds adds her voice to those calling for the government to "guarantee the rights of EU nationals".

She also says she supports a "two-tier" immigration policy, with free movement for skilled workers but "controls" on low-skilled and semi-skilled workers.

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Turning to Brexit, Yvette Cooper asks the home secretary whether she wants to stay in Europol, the European Union's law enforcement agency, or leave.

"It plays an incredibly important role, it has a British chief executive," Amber Rudd tells the committee.

"I certainly hope we have an ongoing role in Europol, whether it is an ongoing relationship or some sort of associate relationship."

Canadians are worried about how the new US president will affect border crossing experiences.

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Another key Leave campaigner, Tory MP Michael Gove, has his turn.

He says pro-EU MPs are calling for parliamentary scrutiny now but supported an organisation under which "thousands of laws were imposed on the people of this country" without debate or the chance to amend them.

"They are pretty late coming to the democratic party now," he alleges.

He attacks the Liberal Democrats for calling for a second referendum, saying the party is "scarcely liberal and now, anti-democratic".

And he insists that "we could not have been clearer in the Leave campaign" that leaving the EU meant leaving the single market and the customs union.

Pro-EU Tory Anna Soubry intervenes to ask if he will also support giving £350m a week to the NHS or accept that "that figure was always false and it was a lie".

"As someone who is not in the government I can't deliver these sums," Mr Gove answers, though he claims the government could invest more in the NHS after leaving the EU.

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"Is President Trump in the same league as the Pope or Nelson Mandela?" asks Labour's Chuka Umunna, referencing other heads of state who have visited the UK.

Amber Rudd replies that she thinks that even Donald Trump wouldn't compare himself to either of those leaders.

So why are you according him a state visit? presses Chuka Umunna.

Ms Rudd tells him that as well as a state visit honouring the person, it also honours the country and would honour the "special relationship"

The SNP is attempting to delay the UK government's bid to formally begin the process of leaving the European Union.

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A consultant to President Trump's administration has said the sacking of Acting Attorney General Sally Yates is not unusual and that she expects "quite a few more".

Speaking to BBC Radio 4's World at One Jan Halper-Hayes said there are "at least 20 to 30 percent of career service individuals who have said they're either thinking about retiring, quitting, that they will thwart his [President Trump's] policies."

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Former Cabinet Office minister Sir Oliver Letwin says he supported remaining in the EU, and helped bring about a referendum when he was part of the government.

The Conservative MP for West Dorset says he told his constituents that "it would be an inevitable consequence of leaving that we would leave the single market" and the customs union.

Therefore, he argues, "the people who voted to leave were voting with their eyes wide open".

Ministers have promised MPs a vote on the terms of a final Brexit deal but Sir Oliver says Parliament should not be under "any illusion that it can go back to remaining if it chooses and it doesn't like the deal".

He says tomorrow's vote on the bill is "one of the most important that we will ever take in the House" but he will vote "because the will of the people, in the end, has been expressed".