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President Donald Trump Travel is prohibited Monday, effective by citizens of 12 African, Middle East and South American countries.
The ban signed last week applies to citizens of Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Sudan and Yemen.
It also imposes higher restrictions on people from Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela who do not have valid visas outside the United States.
The order will not cancel visas that have been issued to citizens of the country, and those with visas will continue to travel to the United States freely
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Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump gestured at a campaign rally at the Findlay Toyota Arena in the Prescott Valley, Arizona on Sunday, October 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
president On X, a travel ban was introduced last weekend after a terrorist attack on a pro-Israeli group that declared Hamas freed Israeli hostages in Boulder, Colorado, allegedly an Egyptian man with an overdue visa by an Egyptian man.
exist White House Fact Sheet“We will resume travel bans, which some call Trump’s travel bans and keep radical Islamic terrorists away from our country,” Trump said.
President Donald Trump said his first administration’s travel ban was one of his most successful policies. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
This was supported by Tommy Pigott, deputy spokesman for the President of the State Council. “This is a necessary condition for national security,” Pigott said in a briefing last week.
“We cannot review and screen openly from any country that we cannot safely and reliably try to enter the United States,” Trump said before signing the ban.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order at the White House.
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“That’s why I signed a new executive order today to impose travel restrictions on countries in Yemen, Somalia, Haiti, Libya, etc.,” he concluded. “We will not allow people to enter countries that want to cause harm to us, and nothing can stop us from ensuring the safety of the United States.”
Fox News’ Paul Tilsley and the Associated Press contributed to the report.
