The travel ban declaration was made in response to a US judge’s decision to temporarily halt deportation proceedings against the family of a man accused of the Colorado attack on Sunday.
Donald Trump stated that the assault “underscored the extreme dangers” posed by foreign nationals who had not been “properly vetted” when he announced the travel ban.
Egypt is not included on the list of banned countries, despite the fact that the man accused of carrying out the assault, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, is an Egyptian national.
According to officials, his family, who are not implicated in the assault, are Egyptian citizens.
A day after the White House announced that it had six one-way tickets to deport the wife and five children from the United States, US District Judge Gordon Gallagher, a Biden appointee, ordered the halting of deportation proceedings.
The defense lawyers had accused the government of unjustly targeting the family, who claim that they were unaware of Soliman’s alleged plans and have cooperated with investigators.
Travel to the United States will be prohibited for citizens of 12 countries, including Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Congo-Brazzaville, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen, effective Monday.
A partial prohibition will be implemented for individuals from seven additional countries: Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela.
The White House attributes the majority of the countries on the list to a combination of political instability and visa overstay rates.
For instance, the sole justification for the prohibitions that affect Congo-Brazzaville, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Burundi, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, and Turkmenistan is the percentage of individuals who exceed their visa validity in the United States.
An inability to access criminal records of migrants, criticism of the authorities that issue passports in the country, and nations that previously did not accept “removable nationals” are also frequently cited as additional reasons.
The proclamation also references security concerns. The White House alleges that Iran and Cuba are “state sponsors of terrorism,” claims that Libya has a “historical terrorist presence,” and refers to Somalia as a “terrorist safe haven.”
In contrast, the proclamation for Haiti asserts that “hundreds of thousands of illegal Haitian aliens flooded into the United States during the Biden administration,” a situation that “harms American communities.”
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