Washington (AP) – The new one by President Donald Trump Traveling prohibition in the United States by citizens of 12 mainly African countries and the Middle East growing tension on the president climbing campaign of the application of immigration.
The new proclamation, who Trump Signed WednesdayApply to citizens of Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. It also imposes increased restrictions on people in Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela which are outside the United States and do not hold a valid visa.
The new prohibition does not revoke the visas previously issued to people from the list of the list, according to Guide published Friday to all American diplomatic missions. However, unless a applicant meets close criteria for a Exemption to the prohibitionHis request will be rejected from Monday. Travelers with previously published visas should always be able to enter the United States even after the ban has taken effect.
Louis-Justian-American Haitian, who was at the airport on Sunday in Newark, New Jersey, while waiting for a flight to its original state from Florida, said many Haitians wishing to come to the United States simply seek to escape violence and disorders in their country.
“I have family in Haiti, so it’s quite overwhelming to see and hear,” said Louis-Just, 23, about the ban on travel. “I don’t think it’s a good thing. I think it’s very overwhelming.”
Many immigration experts say that the new ban is designed to beat any legal challenge by focusing on the visa application process and seems more carefully designed than Executive decree in a hurry During the first term of Trump, who denied entry to citizens of mainly Muslim countries.
In a video published on Wednesday on social networks, Trump said that nationals of the countries included in the prohibition pose risks “linked to terrorism” and “public security”, as well as the risks of exceeding their visas. He also said that some of these countries had a “deficient” screening and verification or historically refused to resume their citizens.
Its conclusions are largely based on an annual report on internal security on tourists, businessmen and students who go beyond American visas and reach air or at sea, distinguishing countries with high percentages of nationals which remain after the expiration of their visas.
Trump also linked the new ban A terrorist attack in Boulder, ColoradoSaying that this highlighted the dangers posed by some visitors who go beyond visas. US officials say the man has been accused of the attack has exceeded a tourist visa. He is from Egypt, a country that does not appear on Trump’s limited list.
The prohibition was quickly denounced by groups which provide help and help for resettlement to refugees.
“This policy does not concern national security – it is a question of sowing the division and the distribution communities which seek security and opportunities in the United States,” said Abby Maxman, president of Oxfam America, an international non -profit organization.
The government of the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, was one of those who condemned the ban on travel, characterizing it in a press release as a “stigmatization and criminalization campaign” against the Venezuelans.
