Donald Trump with British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during a visit to Washington at the end of February, photo: Joshua Sukoff / Alamy / Profimedia Images
Donald Trump has signed a proclamation that forbids citizens from 12 countries traveling to the US, invoking risks to national security, according to the White House. The prohibition will enter into force Monday, June 9th.
This is not Trump's first travel prohibition, applying a similar one in his first term, in 2017, called “Muslim ban”.
The countries are Afghanistan, Myanmar, Ciad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, writes BBC.
The president's plan to prohibit the access of people in certain countries in the US has faced various legal challenges and has been modified several times, but the Supreme Court has finally decided that it can enter into force.
Trump says the prohibition “has successfully prevented threats to national security from reaching our borders.”
The spokesman of the White House, Abigail Jackson said that “President Trump fulfills his promise to protect Americans from dangerous foreign actors who want to come to our country and hurt us.”
“These common sense restrictions are specific to each country and include places that are not properly checked, have high rates of exceeding the visa residence or does not provide sufficient information about their identity,” said the spokesman for the CBS.
“President Trump will always act in the interest of the American people and for his safety,” she says.
There are seven more countries whose citizens are facing partial travel restrictions: Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela
