President Trump announced a prohibition of traveling on Wednesday in 12 countries and a partial prohibition of another seven.
President Trump signed on Wednesday a proclamation that prohibits travelers from 12 countries and partial restriction travelers for seven, starting Monday, June 9.
The White House said the action was necessary to protect the United States from terrorist attacks and other national security threats, and said that countries lacked shipping and research capacities.
The full prohibition applies to the foreign citizens of Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.
The partial prohibition applies to the people of Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.
In a video statement posted on social networks, Trump said that the attack with fire bombs in Boulder, Colorado, stressed why the ban was needed. The man accused of that attack is from Egypt, which is not one of the countries that appear in the prohibition of traveling.
“In the 21st century, we have seen a terrorist attack after another carried out by the overvaluers of foreign visas of dangerous places worldwide,” Trump said in the video statement.
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The first prohibition of traveling
This new prohibition of traveling is the result of an executive order that Trump signed on his first day back at the White House. That order asked several agencies, such as the United States Department of State, to help identify “countries through the world for which research and detection information is so poor that it guarantees a partial or complete suspension.”
Trump also sought to identify how many people from those countries were admitted to the duration of the Biden administration, to retroactively suspend their visas.
Trump Activey campaigned last year to restore the prohibition of traveling he promulgated in his first mandate. He described him as “incredibly successful” to prevent terrorism attacks.
The background history for that first prohibition is long and complicated.
In December 2015, while running for the first time for president, Trump made a dramatic statement asking for a “total and complete closure of Muslims entering the United States.” Then, a few days after the first Tok office, on January 27, 2017, Trump signed an executive order that prohibited the trips of seven Muslim majority countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. The prohibition was technically temporary: the text specifically 90 days.
But the protest was immediate and fast. There were chaos in airports and protests throughout the country, since people who had existing visas were arrested. The word “Muslim” was not mentioned in Trump’s executive order, but critics say it was clearly announced as Kampaign. The ban faced legal challenges. And was blocked by a court.
The Trump administration made some minor reviews, eliminating Iraq from the list and allowing exceptions for green card holders and people with pre -existing visas. But the courts also scored that revised version.
Finally, after multiple reviews, in the summer of 2018, the Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision supported Trump’s prohibition. In that third iteration that the court exceeded, Trump extended the list of prohibited travelers beyond the nations of Muslim majority include people from North Korea and government officials of Venezuela.
The day that was inaugurated in 2021, then President Joe Biden terminated Trump’s prohibition. He signed a presidential proclamation entitled “to end discriminatory prohibitions when entering the United States.”
But now it seems that it was only temporary.