TRUMP ANNOUNCES US TRAVEL BAN ON 12 COUNTRIES, RESTRICTIONS ON SEVEN

News Desk World

Thu 05 June 2025:

President Donald Trump has issued an executive order that completely prohibits travel from 12 countries and imposes restrictions on citizens from seven others, according to the White House. The banned countries are Afghanistan, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Myanmar, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen.
Trump issued the directive in a presidential proclamation and an accompanying video message in which he said a recent attack on a Boulder, Colorado march for Israeli hostages in Gaza “has underscored the extreme dangers posed to our country by the entry of foreign nationals who are not properly vetted, as well as those who come here as temporary visitors and overstay their visas.”

“Very simply, we cannot have open migration from any country where we cannot safely and reliably vet and screen those who seek to enter the United States,” he said in the video. “The strength of the restrictions we’re applying depends on the severity of the threat posed. The list is subject to revision based on whether material improvements are made, and likewise, new countries can be added as threats emerge around the world, but we will not allow people to enter our country who wish to do us harm and nothing will stop us from keeping America safe.”

The White House said in a statement that Trump took the action after reviewing a report from Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other officials

It said the restrictions are being imposed because countries either had inadequate screening and vetting processes, which hinder “America’s ability to identify potential security threats before entry,” or their nationals have high rates of overstaying their visas, while other nations “lack cooperation in sharing identity and threat information, undermining effective U.S. immigration vetting.”

Trump’s order specifically prohibits people from Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen from entering the US. An additional seven countries — Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela — will face partial restrictions and limited entry of their nationals.

The ban and restrictions are set to take effect at 12.01 am Eastern Time on Monday.

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Moves to bar foreign students from Harvard

Trump also signed an executive order on Wednesday to suspend the entry of foreign nationals seeking to study or participate in programmes at Harvard, accusing one of the US’s most prestigious universities of having “a history of concerning foreign ties and radicalism”.

The order directs the US State Department to “consider revoking” existing academic or exchange visas of any current Harvard students “who meet the Proclamation’s criteria”.

Last month, the US State Department ordered all its consular missions overseas to begin additional vetting of visa applicants looking to travel to Harvard University for any purpose, according to an internal cable seen by Reuters.

Harvard has accused the US administration of retaliating against it for refusing to accede to Trump’s demands to control the school’s governance, curriculum and the ideology of its faculty and students.

The visa restrictions follow earlier moves to freeze billions of dollars in grants and other funding to Harvard, end the university’s tax-exempt status and open an investigation into whether it discriminated against white, Asian, male or straight employees or job applicants.

Last month, the administration revoked Harvard’s ability to enrol foreign students. While that move was blocked by a federal court in Boston, Trump’s latest order invokes a different legal authority, the Associated Press news agency reports.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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