President Trump signed a proclamation to prohibition question from definite countries connected Wednesday evening, citing nationalist information risks, medication officials told CBS News.
The prohibition volition beryllium targeted astatine circumstantial countries, but volition let for exceptions.
Mr. Trump's proclamation afloat restricts and limits the introduction of nationals from 12 countries: Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, the officials said. It partially restricts the introduction of radical from 7 countries: Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.
"President Trump is fulfilling his committedness to support Americans from unsafe overseas actors that privation to travel to our state and origin america harm. These commonsense restrictions are country-specific and see places that deficiency due vetting, grounds precocious visa overstay rates, oregon neglect to stock individuality and menace information. President Trump volition ever enactment successful the champion of involvement of the American radical and their safety," White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told CBS News.
Officials said the enactment is owed to a precocious level of hazard to the United States.
Exceptions allowed nether the caller question prohibition volition beryllium for lawful imperishable residents, adoptions, dual nationals traveling connected a passport from an unrestricted country, Afghan Special Immigrant Visas, overseas nationals traveling connected diplomatic, U.N. oregon NATO visas; athletes oregon members of diversion teams, including coaches and enactment staff, and athletes traveling for the World Cup, Olympics oregon different sporting events; contiguous household subordinate migrant visas, Special Immigrant Visas for U.S. authorities employees, migrant visas for taste and spiritual minorities successful Iran, and different nationalist involvement exceptions, officials said.
The announcement of the prohibition follows an attack successful Boulder, Colorado, connected marchers raising attraction for Israelis taken hostage by Hamas.
Jennifer Jacobs is simply a elder White House newsman astatine CBS News.
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