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President Donald Trump has banned question to the U.S. by citizens of 12 countries and restricted entree for those from 7 others, citing nationalist information concerns successful resurrecting and expanding a hallmark argumentation from his archetypal word that volition mostly impact radical from Africa and the Middle East.
The prohibition announced applies to citizens of Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. The heightened restrictions use to radical from Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela who are extracurricular the U.S. and don't clasp a valid visa.
The argumentation took effect Monday and does not person an extremity date.
Here's what to cognize astir the caller rules:
Since returning to the White House, Trump has launched a run of migration enforcement that has pushed the limits of enforcement power and clashed with national judges trying to restrain him.
The question prohibition stems from a Jan. 20 enforcement bid Trump issued requiring the Department of State, Department of Homeland Security and the Director of National Intelligence to compile a study connected “hostile attitudes” toward the U.S.
The purpose is to “protect its citizens from aliens who mean to perpetrate violent attacks, endanger our nationalist security, espouse hateful ideology, oregon different exploit the migration laws for malevolent purposes,” the medication said.
In a video posted connected societal media, Trump tied the caller prohibition to a violent onslaught Sunday successful Boulder, Colorado, saying it underscored the dangers posed by immoderate visitors who overstay visas. The antheral charged successful the onslaught is from Egypt, a state that is not connected Trump’s restricted list. U.S. officials accidental helium overstayed a tourer visa.
2. Dual citizens, including U.S. citizens who besides person citizenship of 1 of the banned countries
3. Some athletes: athletes and their coaches traveling to the U.S. for the World Cup, Olympics oregon different large sporting lawsuit arsenic determined by the U.S. caput of state
4. Afghans who worked for the U.S. authorities oregon its allies successful Afghanistan and are holders of Afghan special migrant visas
5. Iranians belonging to an taste oregon spiritual number who are fleeing prosecution
6. Certain overseas nationalist employees of the U.S. authorities who person served overseas for astatine slightest 15 years, and their spouses and children
7. People who were granted asylum oregon admitted to the U.S. arsenic refugees earlier the prohibition took effect
8. People with U.S. household members who use for visas successful transportation to their spouses, children oregon parents
9. Diplomats and overseas authorities officials connected authoritative visits
10. Those traveling to U.N. office successful New York solely connected authoritative U.N. business
11. Representatives of planetary organizations and NATO connected authoritative visits successful the U.S.
12. Children adopted by U.S. citizens
Trump said nationals of countries included successful the prohibition airs “terrorism-related” and “public-safety” risks, arsenic good arsenic risks of overstaying their visas. He besides said immoderate of these countries had “deficient” screening and vetting oregon person historically refused to instrumentality backmost their citizens.
His findings trust extensively connected an yearly Homeland Security study astir tourists, businesspeople and students who overstay U.S. visas and get by aerial oregon sea, singling retired countries with precocious percentages of nationals who stay aft their visas expired.
“We don’t privation them,” Trump said.
The inclusion of Afghanistan angered immoderate supporters who person worked to resettle its people. The prohibition makes exceptions for Afghans connected peculiar migrant visas, who were mostly the radical who worked astir intimately with the U.S. authorities during the two-decade warfare there.
The database tin beryllium changed, the medication said successful a document, if authorities successful the designated countries marque “material improvements” to their ain rules and procedures. New countries tin beryllium added "as threats look astir the world.”
The State Department instructed U.S. embassies and consulates connected Friday not to revoke visas antecedently issued to radical from the 12 countries listed successful the ban.
In a cablegram sent to each U.S. diplomatic missions, the section said “no enactment should beryllium taken for issued visas which person already near the consular section” and that “no visas issued anterior to the effectual day should beryllium revoked pursuant to this proclamation.”
However, visa applicants from affected countries whose applications person been approved but person not yet received their visas volition beryllium denied, according to the cable, which was signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
And, unless an applicant meets constrictive criteria for an exemption to the ban, his oregon her exertion volition beryllium rejected starting connected Monday.
Early successful Trump’s archetypal term, helium issued an enforcement order banning question to the U.S. by citizens of 7 predominantly Muslim countries, including Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen.
It was 1 of the astir chaotic and confusing moments of his young presidency. Travelers from those nations were either barred from getting connected flights to the U.S. oregon detained astatine U.S. airports aft they landed. They included students and faculty, arsenic good arsenic businesspeople, tourists and radical visiting friends and family.
The order, often referred to arsenic the “Muslim ban” oregon the “travel ban,” was retooled amid ineligible challenges until a mentation was upheld by the Supreme Court successful 2018.
That prohibition affected assorted categories of travelers and immigrants from Iran, Somalia, Yemen, Syria and Libya, positive North Koreans and immoderate Venezuelan authorities officials and their families.
Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro’s authorities condemned the question ban, characterizing it successful a connection arsenic a “stigmatization and criminalization campaign” against Venezuelans.
Chad President Mahamat Deby Itno said his state would suspend visas for U.S. citizens successful effect to the ban.
Aid and exile resettlement groups besides denounced it.
“This argumentation is not astir nationalist information — it is astir sowing part and vilifying communities that are seeking information and accidental successful the United States,” said Abby Maxman, president of Oxfam America.
But reactions to the prohibition ran the gamut from choler to guarded alleviation and support.
In Haiti, vigor stations received a flurry of calls Thursday from aggravated listeners, including galore who said they were Haitians surviving successful the U.S. and who accused Trump of being racist, noting that the radical of galore of the targeted countries are Black.
Haitian-American Elvanise Louis-Juste, who was astatine the airdrome Sunday successful Newark, New Jersey, awaiting a formation to her location authorities of Florida, said galore Haitians wanting to travel to the U.S. are simply seeking to flight unit and unrest successful their country.
“I person household successful Haiti, truthful it’s beauteous upsetting to spot and hear,” Louis-Juste, 23, said of the question ban. “I don’t deliberation it’s a bully thing. I deliberation it’s precise upsetting.”
William Lopez, a 75-year-old spot capitalist who arrived from Cuba successful 1967, supports the question ban.
“These are radical that travel but don’t privation to work, they enactment the Cuban government, they enactment communism,” Lopez said astatine a edifice adjacent Little Havana successful Miami. “What the Trump medication is doing is perfectly good.”
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Associated Press reporters Evens Sanon successful Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and Dánica Coto successful San Juan, Puerto Rico, Regina Garcia Cano successful Caracas, Venezuela, Steve Karnowski successful Minneapolis and Gisela Salomon successful Miami contributed.
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