Official travel restrictions in the United States on 19 countries

The new ban on President Donald Trump entered the United States by citizens from 12 African countries and Middle East countries on Monday amid increasing tension due to the president’s escalating campaign to enforce immigration.

The new announcement, which Trump signed last week, applies to the citizens of Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. It also imposes increasing restrictions on people from Burundi, Cuba, Laus, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela outside the United States and do not hold a valid visa.

In total, less than 162,000 immigrant visas, businesses, study and temporary travel visas in the fiscal year 2023 were issued to citizens of countries affected in the visa categories now banned, according to the Institute of Immigration Policy. The ban includes exemptions, such as double citizens, permanent residents, and migrant visas for direct family members of citizens and athletes who travel in major sporting events such as the World Cup next year, when the United States hosts about 75 percent of the tournament games.

The new ban does not eliminate the visas that have been previously released to people from the listed countries, according to the directives issued on Friday for all American diplomatic tasks. However, unless the applicant does not fulfill the narrow standards for the ban on the ban, his request will be rejected starting from the two.

During the first period of Trump, he established the executive order in a hurry requesting the refusal to enter the citizens of Islamic countries mainly chaos in many airports and other entry outlets, prompting successful legal challenges and major policy reviews.

There was no such turmoil immediately at Los Angeles International Airport in hours that followed the new ban.

A ban was criticized by immigrant defenders

While the United States has an important issue with unauthorized persons within its borders, which is estimated at 11 million and 12 million people through many immigration jobs, the ban has been rapidly convicted by groups that provide assistance and resettlement of refugees.

“This policy is not related to national security – it relates to the seed of division and distortion of societies that seek safety and opportunity in the United States,” said Abe McCman, President of Oxfam America, an international non -profit relief organization.

The inclusion of Afghanistan has angered some supporters who worked to resettle its people. The ban is prohibited for Afghan’s exceptions to special immigrant visas, and generally people who worked closely with the United States government during the war -decade of war there.

Afghanistan was one of the largest sources of refugees who were resettled, with about 14,000 expatriates in a period of 12 months until September 2024. Trump has suspended resettlement of refugees from the country on his first day in office.

While most of the countries listed in the list are on the other side of the world, the Caribbean nation is an exception. The country is currently destroying some of the most important gang violence ever, UN officials say last week There is a food crisis for many of the island’s residents.

The American American-American Lewis-Justti, who was at the airport earlier on Sunday in Newark, pending a trip to Florida, said that many Haitians who want to come to the United States simply seek to escape violence and turmoil.

“I have a family in Haiti, so it is annoying to see and hear,” said Louis Justi, 23, about the travel ban. “I don’t think it’s a good thing. I think it’s very annoying.”

Many immigration experts say that the new embargo is more carefully designed and appears to be designed to overcome the challenges of the court that impeded the first by focusing on the visa application process.

This time, Trump said that some countries have a “minus” examination of passports and other public documents or historically refused to restore their citizens. He relied widely on an annual report of the internal security of people who remain in the United States after their visas ended.

Measuring interest rates has challenged experts over decades, but the government has made a limited attempt annually since 2016. Trump’s declaration refers to the direct prices of eight of the 12 banned countries.

Trump has also linked the new ban Bulder attack, Colo.He said that he emphasized the risks offered by some of the visitors who exceeded the visas. US officials say the man accused of the attack has exceeded a tourist visa. It is from Egypt, a country that is not included in the restricted Trump list.

“Egypt was a country that we deal closely with. They had things under control,” Trump said last week. “Countries that do not have things under control.”