WASHINGTON (TNND) — The Trump administration placed travel bans on individuals coming from five additional countries and imposed partial entry limits on foreigners from 15 countries in a proclamation signed on Tuesday.
Individuals from Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan, Syria, and individuals with travel documents issued by the Palestinian Authority face “full restrictions and entry limitations” to the United States.
Travelers from Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Benin, Cote d’Ivoire, Dominica, Gabon, The Gambia, Malawi, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Tonga, Zambia and Zimbabwe seeking entrance into the United States are subjected to partial entry limits.
The proclamation comes following the shooting of two National Guard soldiers with the suspect being an Afghan national in Washington D.C. in late November. The incident has propelled calls by members of the Trump administration and Republican lawmakers to place greater restrictions on who is allowed entrance into the United States.
The Trump administration stated that countries added to the travel ban or placed on greater restrictions face “widespread corruption, fraudulent or unreliable civil documents and criminal records” which creates greater challenges for the United States to properly vet individuals, and accused some countries of having high rates of individuals staying past their visa expiration date. The proclamation also said that some countries would refuse to accept their citizens deported by the United States.
“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 stated.
In June, Trump placed a travel ban on12 countries: Afghanistan, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Myanmar, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. The travel ban on these countries still remains in effect.
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