Trump’s travel ban, in five charts

President Donald Trump’s proclamation Wednesday restricting introduction into the United States for nationals from a patchwork of 19 countries revives 1 of his astir arguable policies from his archetypal word and targets galore of the aforesaid countries.

Beginning Monday, the directive bans introduction for nationals from 12 countries: Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. It besides institutes partial bans and visa restrictions for Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.

Trump instituted akin question restrictions during his archetypal word and adjacent targeted respective of the aforesaid countries, including Iran, Libya and Venezuela.

About 139,000 visas were issued for visitors from the 19 countries during the 2023 fiscal year, information from the State Department shows. Visitors from Venezuela received the astir visas.

Across each of the countries, tourism and concern visas were issued astir commonly.

Trump’s proclamation cited information and coercion risks arsenic the crushed down immoderate of the restrictions, and it specifically accused visitors from respective of the countries of staying past their visas’ expiration dates. But information from the Department of Homeland Security shows that portion respective of the countries had precocious overstay rates during the 2023 fiscal year, the existent numbers of radical were low.

Eritrea, for instance, had the second-highest overstay rate, but the full was conscionable implicit 200, a tiny fraction of the fig of overstayers from Mexico, India oregon Brazil.