The Trump administration signed a proclamation Wednesday suspending journey to the U.S. for residents from 12 nations: Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.
Citing nationwide safety pursuits, the proclamation states that the recognized nations lack adequate vetting and screening processes wanted to detect international nationals who might pose security or terrorism threats to the U.S.
The proclamation additionally partially restricted entrance for nationals of seven different nations: Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.
Different concerns embody a rustic’s information-sharing insurance policies, presence of terrorists, visa overstay charges and whether or not residents who’re despatched again are readily accepted, it mentioned.
The ban is ready to take impact on Monday at 12:01 a.m. ET.
In a video launched by the White Home Wednesday evening, Trump mentioned that on his first day in workplace, he directed the secretary of state to carry out a safety evaluate of “high-risk areas” to make journey restriction suggestions.
He additionally cited the Sunday assault on Jewish protestors in Boulder, Colorado within the video. The person charged within the assault, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, is an Egyptian nationwide. Egypt just isn’t named within the new journey ban.
The coverage mirrors an analogous journey ban introduced in January 2017, one week into Trump’s first time period, which banned journey from seven Muslim-majority nations. That coverage, whereas largely criticized, was finally upheld by the Supreme Court docket in 2018.
That ban was later ended by President Joe Biden in 2021.
Democratic lawmakers have voiced opposition to the ban on social media. They embody Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass, who posted on X, “Make no mistake: Trump’s newest journey ban will NOT make America safer. We can not proceed to permit the Trump administration to put in writing bigotry and hatred into U.S. immigration coverage.”
The brand new coverage applies to foreigners from the named nations who’re outdoors of the US and who lack visas to enter as of Monday, June 9.
Sure vacationers are excepted from the rule, it states, together with U.S. everlasting residents, athletes touring to attend main sporting occasions, and rapid relations with “clear and convincing proof of identification and household relationship,” citing DNA for example.