New Trump travel ban adds five more countries to growing list
The Trump governance announced an expansion of its travel ban, adding five more countries from the Middle East and Africa to the list of nations subject to new restrictions. president Donald Trump signed a proclamation aimed at strengthening U.S. national security by imposing “data-driven restrictions” on countries with significant deficiencies in screening and vetting their citizens. The updated restrictions maintain bans on 12 countries imposed earlier and add Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan, and Syria. Additionally, people holding travel documents from the Palestinian Authority are now barred from entering the U.S. fifteen other countries face partial travel bans due to issues like corruption and unreliable civil documents. This move follows security concerns raised after a National Guard member was shot in Washington, D.C., by an Afghan asylum seeker, intensifying debates over immigration screening processes. homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem advised Trump to implement a full travel ban on countries perceived to be sending criminals to the U.S. trump also expressed intentions to pause immigration from certain “third-world countries.”
New Trump travel ban targets countries in Middle East and Africa
The Trump administration expanded its travel ban to include an additional five countries, as well as new limitations on existing nations, White House officials announced Tuesday afternoon.
President Donald Trump signed a proclamation to strengthen the nation’s borders and national security with “data-driven restrictions” against countries that have “severe deficiencies” in screening and vetting their citizens.
“The restrictions and limitations imposed by the Proclamation are necessary to prevent the entry of foreign nationals about whom the United States lacks sufficient information to assess the risks they pose, garner cooperation from foreign governments, enforce our immigration laws, and advance other important foreign policy, national security, and counterterrorism objectives,” the White House proclamation reads.
Restrictions first imposed in June against 12 countries will remain in place. Those countries are Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen.
Trump’s latest proclamation added Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan, and Syria to the list. In addition, the Trump administration barred people with Palestinian Authority-issued travel documents from entering the U.S.
Another 15 countries are also facing partial travel bans, including Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Dominica, Gabon, Gambia, Malawi, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Tonga, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
White House officials cited “widespread corruption, fraudulent or unreliable civil documents and criminal records” as the basis for expanding the ban.
The move comes eight years after Trump first imposed a travel ban on seven countries in 2017.
It also comes several weeks after two National Guard members were shot blocks from the White House while on assignment as part of the president’s anti-crime initiative.
The suspect was arrested and identified as Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a citizen of Afghanistan who worked with the CIA during the war and was airlifted out of Kabul by U.S. forces in 2021. He applied for asylum once in the U.S. and was approved for it in April, stirring up new concerns about how he was vetted and when he was radicalized to carry out an attack.
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Following the attack, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said she advised Trump to implement a “full travel ban” from countries that are “flooding” the U.S. with “criminals” after the National Guard attack.
On Thanksgiving Day, Trump posted on social media that he planned to “permanently pause” immigration from “third-world countries.”
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