Thursday, June 5, 2025 - US President Donald Trump has announced that citizens of 12 countries would be banned from visiting the United States and those from seven others would face restrictions.
The countries include Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the
Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia,
Sudan and Yemen.
In addition to the ban, which takes effect at 12:01 a.m. on
Monday, there will be heightened restrictions on visitors from Burundi, Cuba,
Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.
“I must act to protect the national security and national
interest of the United States and its people,” Trump said in his proclamation.
Ten of the 19 countries under the bans and restrictions are
in Africa. The countries which include Sierra Leone, Togo, and Equatorial
Guinea, are not known for hosting armed groups that pose a major threat to the
West.
The list results from a Jan. 20 executive order Trump issued
requiring the departments of State and Homeland Security and the Director of
National Intelligence to compile a report on “hostile attitudes” toward the
U.S. and whether entry from certain countries represented a national security
risk.
During his first term, Trump issued an executive order
in January 2017 banning travel to the U.S. by citizens of seven predominantly
Muslim countries — Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen.
The order, often referred to as the “Muslim ban” or the “travel ban,” was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2018.
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