More than 36 countries can face travel ban for America
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The Trump administration is considering a step that can be about three times under the number of countries. travel banAccording to the memorandum of the State Department received by NPR. 36 additional nations can be added List of 19 Earlier this month was placed under complete or partial sanctions.
Memorandum for diplomats in nearly two dozen African countries along with others in Central Asia, Caribbean and many Pacific Island countries demand that they explain this Wednesday as to how they will start addressing American concerns and follow the needs of the new state department.
Reported for the first time by Memo, signed by State Secretary Marco Rubio Washington Post, It is said that 36 countries have been identified as “veating and screening information” [that] There is so much shortage to warrant the partial or full suspension of the entry of its citizens into the US that it is the latest step in the immigration crack of President Donald Trump that includes the collective exile of immigrants or convicted of criminal activity and others.
The memorandum states that some nations have been nominated State sponsor of terrorOr some of his citizens “are involved with the acts of terrorism in the United States.” According to Memo, reliable identity is a reliable “lack of government authority to produce documents,” Keep incredible criminal records, or surrounded by “broad government fraud”. Other concerns include claims that countries have high rates of visas, or overseas to citizens, which are “involved in antisementic or anti -American activity in the United States.” Countries that are not overcome concerns may be recommended for travel ban soon as August.
Homeland Security spokesman Trisia McLaglin said in a statement to NPR, “Limiting the entry of individuals from those countries will help secure the American homeland and secure our communities. ,
Memo also cites the requirements that foreign governments are “fully cooperative” in removing foreign nationals when it is “important for American national security.” And any specific concern of America with a specific country can be “reduced”, the memo says, if that country is ready to accept the exiled from America, which cannot be sent back to its original country.
McLaglin said, “This is an essential step to get cooperation from foreign governments to accept the exile flights of their own citizens, strengthen national security and restore integrity for the immigration system.”
Critics of travel restrictions, however, Against The previous restrictions of President Trump to target many African and Muslim-Bihar nations are racial and religious discriminatory.
The countries listed in the memo are facing: Angola; Antigua and Barbuda; Benin; Bhutan; Burkina Faso; Cabo Varde; Cambodia; Cameron; Cot de evoire; Democratic Republic of Congo; Djibouti; Dominica; Ethiopia; Egypt; Gabon; Gambia; Ghana; Kyrgyzstan; Liberia; Malawi; Mauritania; Niger; Nigeria; St. Kitts and Nevis; Saint Lucia; Sao tom and principal; Senegal; South Sudan; Syria; Tanzania; Tonga; Tuvalu; Uganda; Vanuatu; Zambia; And Zimbabwe.
There are already completely banned nations on 4 June: Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Congo Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Irritriya, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. Partially banned are Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.
In his first term at the office, Trump banned passengers from seven Muslim-dominated countries, but the order was canceled under the Biden administration.