Mr Ghoneim said he did not think Trump had the right to impose the ban and he hoped members of the American government would oppose the moves.
"There are a lot of Muslims who were born in the United States and now if you're from Libya you can't go home. I think everyone is worried about the situation.
"Most of the people here don't have a plan to be living over there, which is why they're here, but everyone is worried about what might happen next."
Mr Ghoneim said the actions were incongruous with a man who called himself a Christian.
"He should be supporting every other religion, not against them. The Quran says you will find that those closest to you in friendship will be Christian. To call yourself Christian and to stop those people coming into the country because they are 'terrorists', because they are coming from Muslim countries, it doesn't make any sense.
You don't call a whole country terrorists or a whole religion terrorists.
"With all respect to every other nation and every other religion, in every nation and every religion you will find good people or bad people.
"You don't call a whole country terrorists or a whole religion terrorists."
Mr Ghoneim hoped the United Nations would step in and tell Trump he had gone too far.
"He doesn't have any humanity."
Mr Ghoneim said he and others in the Tauranga Muslim community had not encountered anything like the antagonism suffered by Muslim people in America.
"There's been no real change in the way we're treated here. New Zealand is home. Kiwis are family. We don't feel what we hear in the media happening in New Zealand, we find New Zealand totally different.
"I have been here for 18 years now, you start losing your friends back home and making new friends here. Most of my friends now are Kiwi."
On Monday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade advised Kiwi travellers who might be affected by Trump's drastic move to temporarily ban travellers from certain Muslim nations entering the country to contact the US Consulate for advice.
Immigration order
President Trump on Friday afternoon [US time] approved a sweeping executive order that suspended entry of all refugees to the United States for 120 days, barred Syrian refugees indefinitely, and blocked entry into the United States for 90 days for citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. It also barred green card holders from those countries from re-entering the United States, the Department of Homeland Security said, though the administration said exemptions could be granted.
- Sourced from the New York Times