Trump doubles number of countries facing travel bans or restrictions

President Trump connected Tuesday much than doubled the database of countries taxable to his question prohibition oregon to dense restrictions, bringing the full fig of nations affected by the sweeping acceptable of migration and introduction limits to 39.

The archetypal iteration of the question prohibition Mr. Trump issued successful June included 19 countries, afloat barring the introduction of immigrants and travelers from Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. It besides partially suspended the introduction of nationals of Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.

The proclamation signed by Mr. Trump connected Tuesday added 7 countries to the database of states facing afloat introduction restrictions: Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Laos, Sierra Leone, South Sudan and Syria. It imposed partial introduction limits connected immigrants and travelers from different 15 countries, including Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Benin, Cote d'Ivoire, Dominica, Gabon, Gambia, Malawi, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Tonga, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Mr. Trump's proclamation besides enacted an introduction prohibition for those traveling with documents issued by the Palestinian Authority, which governs parts of the West Bank. The restrictions connected travelers from Turkmenistan were eased, aft Mr. Trump said that state had improved its information-sharing with the U.S.

The migration and question restrictions see immoderate exceptions, including for imperishable U.S. residents from the countries connected the database and athletes and unit participating successful large sporting events similar the FIFA World Cup adjacent year. But Tuesday's proclamation besides eliminated an exception, included successful the June question ban, that exempted the children, spouses and parents of U.S. citizens who had requested visas connected their behalf.

CBS News had reported earlier this period that the Trump medication was considering expanding its question prohibition pursuing the shooting of 2 National Guard members successful Washington, D.C., connected Thanksgiving week. The suspect successful that attack, which killed 1 of the soldiers, is an Afghan antheral who entered the U.S. successful September 2021 and was granted asylum successful April 2025.

In his decree connected Tuesday, Mr. Trump cited aggregate reasons to warrant the question ban's expansion, including concerns astir the quality to adequately vet immigrants from the impacted countries and the deficiency of reliable record-keeping and information-sharing successful immoderate of those nations. He besides referenced equipped conflict, corruption, fraud and coercion successful definite countries connected the list.

Mr. Trump said Antigua and Barbuda and Dominica besides connection citizenship to foreigners without a residency requirement, creating the hazard that idiosyncratic from the countries taxable to the question prohibition could question to summation presumption successful those Caribbean nations to bypass the U.S. introduction restrictions.

During Mr. Trump's archetypal administration, versions of his question prohibition faced important nationalist backlash and ineligible challenges that alleged the argumentation was discriminatory successful nature. In 2018, however, the Supreme Court upheld the president's powerfulness to suspend the introduction of foreigners connected nationalist information grounds done a ineligible authorization known arsenic 212(f).