Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>The Trump administration is considering targeting the citizens of as many as 43 countries as part of a new ban on travel to the United States that would be broader than the restrictions imposed during President Trump\u2019s first term, according to officials familiar with the matter.<\/p>\nA draft list of recommendations developed by diplomatic and security officials suggests a \u201cred\u201d list of 11 countries whose citizens would be flatly barred from entering the United States. They are Afghanistan, Bhutan, Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen, the officials said.<\/p>\n
The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive internal deliberations, cautioned that the list had been developed by the State Department several weeks ago, and that changes were likely by the time it reached the White House.<\/p>\n
Officials at embassies and in regional bureaus at the State Department, and security specialists at other departments and intelligence agencies, have been reviewing the draft. They are providing comment about whether descriptions of deficiencies in particular countries are accurate or whether there are policy reasons \u2014 like not risking disruption to cooperation on some other priority \u2014 to reconsider including some.<\/p>\n
The draft proposal also included an \u201corange\u201d list of 10 countries for which travel would be restricted but not cut off. In those cases, affluent business travelers might be allowed to enter, but not people traveling on immigrant or tourist visas.<\/p>\n
Citizens on that list would also be subjected to mandatory in-person interviews in order to receive a visa. It included Belarus, Eritrea, Haiti, Laos, Myanmar, Pakistan, Russia, Sierra Leone, South Sudan and Turkmenistan.<\/p>\n
When he took office on Jan. 20, Mr. Trump issued an executive order requiring the State Department to identify countries \u201cfor which vetting and screening information is so deficient as to warrant a partial or full suspension on the admission of nationals from those countries.\u201d<\/p>\n
He gave the department 60 days to finish a report for the White House with that list, meaning it is due next week. The State Department\u2019s Bureau of Consular Affairs has taken the lead, and the order said the Justice and Homeland Security Departments and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence were to assist with the effort.<\/p>\n
Spokespeople at several agencies declined to comment or did not respond to a request for comment. But the State Department previously said it was following Mr. Trump\u2019s order and was \u201ccommitted to protecting our nation and its citizens by upholding the highest standards of national security and public safety through our visa process,\u201d while declining to specifically discuss internal deliberations.<\/p>\n
The Times and other news outlets reported this month that Afghanistan, which was not part of Mr. Trump\u2019s first-term travel bans but fell to the Taliban when the U.S. withdrew its forces in 2021, was likely to be part of the second-term ban. But the other countries under consideration had been unclear.<\/p>\n
It is also not clear whether people with existing visas would be exempted from the ban, or if their visas would be canceled. Nor is it clear whether the administration intends to exempt existing green card holders, who are already approved for lawful permanent residency.<\/p>\n
The Trump administration this past week said it had canceled the green card of a Syrian-born former Columbia University graduate student of Palestinian descent, Mahmoud Khalil, because he had led high-profile campus protests against Israel\u2019s war in Gaza that the government says were antisemitic, setting off a court fight over the legality of that move.<\/p>\n
Some of the countries on the draft red and orange lists were sanctioned by Mr. Trump in his first-term travel bans, but many are new. Some share characteristics with the earlier lists \u2014 they are generally Muslim-majority or otherwise nonwhite, poor and have governments that are considered weak or corrupt.<\/p>\n
But the reason several others were included was not immediately clear. Bhutan, for example, was proposed for an absolute ban on entry. The small Buddhist and Hindu country is sandwiched between China and India, neither of which were on any of the draft lists.<\/p>\n
The proposal to sharply restrict, if not outright ban, visitors from Russia raises a different issue. While the Russian government has a reputation for corruption, Mr. Trump has been trying to reorient U.S. foreign policy in a more Russia-friendly direction.<\/p>\n
A decision to include Venezuela could also disrupt a nascent thaw in relations that has been useful to Mr. Trump\u2019s separate efforts to deport undocumented migrants.<\/p>\n
The proposal also includes a draft \u201cyellow\u201d list of 22 countries that would be given 60 days to clear up perceived deficiencies, with the threat of being moved onto one of the other lists if they did not comply.<\/p>\n
Such issues could include failing to share with the United States information about incoming travelers, purportedly inadequate security practices for issuing passports, or the selling of citizenship to people from banned countries, which could serve as a loophole around the restrictions.<\/p>\n
That list, the officials said, included Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Dominica, Equatorial Guinea, Gambia, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, Sa\u0303o Tome\u0301 and Pri\u0301ncipe, Vanuatu and Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n
During Mr. Trump\u2019s first term, courts blocked the government from enforcing the first two versions of his travel ban, but the Supreme Court eventually permitted a rewritten ban \u2014 one that banned citizens from eight nations, six of them predominantly Muslim \u2014 to take effect. The list later evolved.<\/p>\n
Soon after he became president in January 2021, Joseph R. Biden Jr. issued a proclamation revoking Mr. Trump\u2019s travel bans, calling them \u201ca stain on our national conscience\u201d and \u201cinconsistent with our long history of welcoming people of all faiths and no faith at all.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr. Trump\u2019s executive order in January said he would revive the bans in order to protect American citizens \u201cfrom aliens who intend to commit terrorist attacks, threaten our national security, espouse hateful ideology or otherwise exploit the immigration laws for malevolent purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Source: NewsDay<\/b><\/p>\n
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