The Trump administration is contemplating a brand new journey ban that might have an effect on residents from as much as 43 international locations, meant to deal with “nationwide safety and public security menace,” reviews claimed on Friday.
An inner memo seen by a number of US media shops outlines a draft proposal for an expanded journey ban. The memo categorises international locations into three tiers: pink, orange, and yellow.
Residents from the 11 international locations within the “pink” class could be totally barred from getting into the US. These international locations embody Afghanistan, Bhutan, Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela, and Yemen.
The record, put collectively by the US State Division, could be topic to alter and nonetheless must be authorised, reviews famous.
International locations within the “orange” class would have an effect on immigrant, vacationer and scholar visas, with some exception. The record consists of Belarus, Eritrea, Haiti, Laos, Myanmar, Pakistan, Russia, Sierra Leone, South Sudan and Turkmenistan.
The international locations within the “yellow” class would have 60 days to deal with issues raised by Washington or danger being moved to one of many two extra restrictive teams.
The class going through both indefinite journey ban or heavy restrictions record consists of Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Benin, Burkina Faso, Vanuatu, Gambia, the Dominican Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zimbabwe, Cape Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Congo, Liberia, Mauritania, Malawi, Mali, São Tomé and Príncipe, Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and Chad.
The White Home has not publicly commented on the reported memo.
The record comes on the again of an government order Trump signed on 20 January, which says it could defend the nation and its residents from “aliens who intend to commit terrorist assaults, threaten our nationwide safety, espouse hateful ideology, or in any other case exploit the immigration legal guidelines for malevolent functions.”
The order required a number of cupboard members to supply suggestions on which international locations must be included within the journey ban, in accordance with reviews.
Throughout a press briefing on Wednesday, US President Donald Trump was requested which international locations could be included in a brand new record regarding the government order. Trump declined to reply, stating, “Wouldn’t that be a silly factor for me to say?”
Biden repeals, Trump reinstates
Throughout his marketing campaign, Trump promised to reinstate the journey ban, which gained vital consideration throughout his first time period.
Again in January 2017, one week into his presidency, Trump signed an government order titled “Defending the Nation From International Terrorist Entry Into the US.”
The order barred the entry of Syrian refugees into the US and quickly suspended entry for people from Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.
His 2017 resolution led to chaos at airports and sparked protests nationwide over what its detractors dubbed the “Muslim ban”. Judges in a number of states shortly blocked the preliminary ban, citing discrimination towards the international locations on the record and violation of US immigration regulation.
The US Supreme Court docket later allowed a revised model of the ban, which continued to limit entry for residents from Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen. The Court docket upheld the ban in 2018.
When US President Joe Biden took workplace in 2021, he repealed the journey ban, describing it as “a stain on our nationwide conscience” and inconsistent with the nation’s historical past of welcoming folks of all faiths.
