Trump widens travel ban, citing security risks and vetting failures

President Donald Trump on Tuesday expanded a journey ban, including 5 extra international locations and imposing restrictions on others.

The transfer got here because the Trump administration continues to tighten U.S. entry necessities and immigration requirements.

“The restrictions imposed by the proclamation are essential to stop the entry of overseas nationals about whom the US doesn’t have adequate data to evaluate the dangers they pose, to acquire cooperation from overseas governments, to implement our immigration legal guidelines, and to additional different essential overseas coverage, nationwide safety, and counterterrorism targets,” the proclamation stated.

His actions on Tuesday will imply that residents of 5 international locations – Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan and Syria, in addition to these holding journey paperwork issued by the Palestinian Authority – will face a ban on journey to the US, the White Home stated. As well as, the prevailing partial entry bans for Laos and Sierra Leone have been prolonged to full entry suspensions.

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Secretary of Homeland Safety Kristi Noem speaks as President Donald Trump listens. On Tuesday, Trump expanded his journey ban to incorporate 5 further international locations. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Photographs)

One other 15 international locations – Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Benin, Ivory Coast, Dominica, Gabon, Gambia, Malawi, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Tonga, Zambia and Zimbabwe – will face partial restrictions.

The proclamation additionally “narrows broad exceptions to immigrant visas that pose demonstrable fraud dangers, whereas preserving case-by-case exemptions,” the White Home stated.

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In its announcement, the Trump administration stated lots of the international locations topic to journey bans endure from “widespread corruption, fraudulent or unreliable civil and prison information, and non-existent beginning registration methods,” making it troublesome to conduct correct investigations. Others refuse to share regulation enforcement knowledge, whereas others permit “citizenship-by-investment applications that conceal identities and circumvent vetting necessities and journey restrictions.”

In June, Trump introduced a US journey ban on residents of 12 international locations – Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen – whereas additionally tightening restrictions on different international locations: Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.

Tuesday’s resolution follows the arrest of an Afghan suspected of capturing two Nationwide Guard troopers in Washington DC over the Thanksgiving weekend.

A brand new U.S. citizen holds the American flag and the Oath of Allegiance throughout a naturalization ceremony at George Washington’s Mount Vernon in Mount Vernon, Virginia, on Friday, July 4, 2025. (Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg through Getty Photographs)

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On the time of the killing, Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem stated Rahmanullah Lakanwal was considered one of a number of unvetted Afghans being paroled en masse into the U.S. below Operation Allies Welcome below the Biden administration.

Lakanwal is accused of capturing US Military Spc. Sarah Beckstrom, who later died, and Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, who’s recovering.