After weeks of speculation, the Trump administration is issuing a clean series of travel sanctions on citizens of 43 countries, including Afghanistan, Bhutan and Pakistan. New York Times Notified on Friday (March 14). The report states that these restrictions are far more far -reaching than those imposed in Trump’s previous period.
On January 20, Donald Trump issued an executive order on the day of his inauguration, instructing cabinet members, including the Secretary of State, to compile a list of countries.
Trump said he had intended Protect US citizens “From foreigners who intend to commit terrorist attacks, threaten our national security, support hateful ideology, or otherwise exploit immigration laws for misconduct purposes.” The White House needed a report within 60 days for this order, ie next week.
Proposed travel restrictions
Accessed to the draft list of recommendations NytThe countries have been identified as one of the three buckets.
- 01
Red list
No one will be allowed to go to the United States with this bucket.
Countries include Afghanistan, Bhutan, Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen.
- 02
The orange list
Traveling from these countries will be banned but will not be completely closed. The entry of rich business passengers can still be allowed, but visas for immigrants or tourists will not be issued. Citizens on the list must clean these interviews to obtain a visa.
The countries include Belarus, Eritrea, Haiti, Laos, Myanmar, Pakistan, Russia, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, and Turkmenistan.
- 03
List of yellow
The yellow list includes 22 countries that will be given 60 days to resolve the shortcomings. If they do not bother them, the countries on the list can be transferred to either of the two buckets mentioned above.
According to Nyt Report, may include these issues:
- Unable to distribute information about incoming passengers with the United States;
- Definitely inadequate safety methods to issue a passport; And
- Selling citizenship to people from prohibited countries, which can work around sanctions.
The countries included in the list include Angola, Antigua and Barboda, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameron, Cape Vard, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Dominica, Equality Guinea, St. Lokia, St. and Navis. Princess, Vanwato and Zimbabwe.
According to the officials who spoke NytThe lists were prepared by the State Department officials weeks ago. At present, embassy officials, and other departments and intelligence agencies are being reviewed by security officials.
Once further changes are possible after joining the White House list.
This travel ban is different from the first period of Trump
The proposed sanctions are now widespread in their scope compared to the previous Trump administration’s policies.
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In his first term, Trump imposed the so -called “Muslim ban”, following the 2015 election announcement, “after the announcement of a total and full shutdown of Muslims entering the United States, unless the representatives of our country could find out what was happening.”
In becoming a developing series of ban, Trump banned entry into a group of Muslim -majority countries as well as low -income and non -white countries, especially Africa.
Although the court stopped the sanctions from imposing these sanctions, the Supreme Court upheld the new repetition of the travel ban in 2018. In 2021, President Biden remained until he took office. In his first operation, he recovered them and returned to the individual scrutiny system for the people of these countries.
