Donald Trump announces the ban on US travel on 12 countries, restrictions on seven Donald Trump News

The White House said that US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order imposing a complete ban on traveling from 12 countries and restricting the citizens of seven other countries.

The banned countries include Afghanistan, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Myanmar, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.

In addition to the ban, which was announced on Wednesday and deserves to be involved on Monday, there will be increasing restrictions on people from Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.

“I should act to protect national security and the national interests of the United States and its people,” Trump said in his order.

In a video released by the White House, Trump said that the recent attack on a supporter of Israel in Bulder, “Colorado emphasized the severe risks that were put on our country by entering foreign citizens who were not properly examined.”

The president claimed that there are “millions and millions of these illegal who should not be in our country.”

He said: “We will not let what happened in Europe happens to America,” adding, “Simply, we cannot get an open migration from any country in which we cannot check it safely and reliable those who seek to enter the United States.”

“We will not allow people to enter our country who want to harm.”

– President Trump pic.twitter.com/7NGM4TO2

Whitehouse June 4, 2025

During his first term in 2017, Trump issued an executive order prohibiting travel to the United States by the citizens of seven Muslim countries mostly: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.

People from the countries called either from reaching their flights to the United States or detainees at American airports were prevented after their landing. Among the affected people are tourists and people who visit friends, family, students, faculty members in American institutions and businessmen.

The order, which is often referred to as “Islamic ban” or “travel ban”, was re -drafted, amid legal challenges until the issuance was supported by the Supreme Court in 2018, which banned the categories of travelers and migrants from Iran, Somalia, Yemen and Libya, as well as North Korea and government officials in the ordinary.

Trump defended his initial travel ban for national security causes, on the pretext that he was aiming to protect the United States and claim that he was not hostile to Muslims. However, Trump called for a ban on Muslims during his first campaign for the White House.

It moves to avoid foreign students from Harvard University

Trump also signed an executive order on Wednesday to suspend the entry of foreign citizens who seek to study or participate in programs at Harvard University, accusing one of the prestigious United States universities in the “history of foreign relations and extremism”.

The request directs the US State Department to “think about canceling” academic visas or the exchange of any current Harvard students “who meet the criteria of advertising.”

Last month, the US State Department ordered all its consulate duties abroad to start examining the additional visa applicants looking to travel to Harvard University for any purpose, according to an internal cable that Reuters saw.

Harvard University accused the American administration of retaliation against it for refusing to join Trump’s demands to control the school governance and school curricula and its ideology from faculty and students.

The visa restrictions follow previous moves to freeze billions of dollars from grant and other financing for Harvard, end the tax exemption at the university and open an investigation whether they are a discrimination against white, Asian, male, rectum, or job applicants.

Last month, the administration canceled Harvard’s ability to register foreign students. While this step was banned by a federal court in Boston, Trump’s recent order calls on a different legal authority, according to the reports of the Associated Press News Agency.