The Home Secretary has warned that President Trump's travel ban risks becoming a "propaganda opportunity" for Islamic State.
Amber Rudd told a Commons committee: "The sources of terrorism are not to be found in the sources where the president is necessarily looking for them."
She added: "I think the important thing is for this Government to state that we disagree with the ban and we have said that it is divisive, it is wrong. I will continue to say that."
Her comments came as it was confirmed that MPs will debate a petition that calls for Donald Trump's state visit to Britain to be downgraded.
More than 1.7 million people have now added their signatures to the petition, which says that such a visit would "cause embarrassment" to the Queen.
It also says that Mr Trump's "well documented misogyny and vulgarity disqualifies him from being received by Her Majesty the Queen or the Prince of Wales".
Signatures soared in number over the weekend after Mr Trump announced a travel ban against seven mainly-Muslim countries.
The debate at Westminster Hall, to be opened by Labour's Paul Flynn, will also take in a rival petition containing more than 130,000 signatures which backs the new US leader's state visit.
It says it should go ahead because Mr Trump is "the leader of a free world and U.K. is a country that supports free speech and does not believe that people that appose (sic) our point of view should be gagged".
Parliament must consider debating an issue once a petition has been signed 100,000 times.
The petition opposing the state visit is the second best-supported one since the current system was set up.
The most popular one, calling for a second referendum on Britain's membership of the EU, gained the support of 4,150,260 people.
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