U.S. President Donald Trump has signed a proclamation imposing travel restrictions on 12 countries, citing national security concerns and inadequate vetting.
The order signed on Wednesday bans virtually all travel to or from any citizens of the 12 new countries: Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen. This proclamation also partially restricts travel from an additional seven countries: Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela.
According to a White House statement, full bans were imposed on countries “deficient in screening and vetting” and classified as “extremely high risk to the United States.”
Like Trump’s earlier multiplex travel ban in 2017, which banned several majority-Muslim nations and led to widespread protests and court cases that the US Supreme Court finally upheld in 2018, this proclamation promotes Trump’s agenda.
Joe Biden, who took over from Trump in 2021, rescinded the ban on the very first day in the president’s office, calling the action “a stain on our national conscience.”
This news related to the latest travel proclamation was first reported by CBS News.
