{"id":18559,"date":"2025-06-09T09:14:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T09:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/?p=18559"},"modified":"2025-06-09T09:15:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T09:15:53","slug":"trumps-travel-ban-on-12-countries-officially-enforced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/2025\/06\/09\/trumps-travel-ban-on-12-countries-officially-enforced\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Travel Ban on 12 Countries Officially Enforced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ai-optimize-6 ai-optimize-introduction\"><em><strong>Watan<\/strong><\/em>-The travel ban on citizens of 12 countries, issued by former President Donald Trump last week, officially came into effect on Sunday night at 04:01 GMT, according to the presidential decree.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-8\" data-start=\"960\" data-end=\"1239\">The order, justified by \u201cprotecting the United States from foreign terrorists and other national security threats,\u201d targets citizens of Afghanistan, Burma (Myanmar), Chad, Republic of Congo (Brazzaville), Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-9\" data-start=\"1241\" data-end=\"1467\">The Trump administration, known for its hardline immigration policies, claimed the listed countries lack effective governance capable of vetting travelers and noted a tendency for some of their citizens to overstay U.S. visas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-10\" data-start=\"1469\" data-end=\"1642\">Additionally, restrictions were imposed on citizens from seven other countries applying for U.S. visas: Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-11\" data-start=\"1644\" data-end=\"1905\">Trump compared the new \u201ctravel ban\u201d to the effective restrictions he implemented during his first term (2017\u20132021), which mostly targeted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/2025\/03\/09\/trump-resumes-travel-ban-on-muslims-revoking-visas-and-expanding-restrictions\/\">Muslim<\/a>-majority countries. He claimed those bans prevented the U.S. from suffering attacks similar to those seen in Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-12\" data-start=\"1907\" data-end=\"1987\">Four countries\u2014Iran, Libya, Sudan, and Yemen\u2014appear in both versions of the ban.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-13\" data-start=\"1989\" data-end=\"2218\">\u201cWe won\u2019t allow what happened in Europe to happen in America,\u201d Trump said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-13\" data-start=\"1989\" data-end=\"2218\">\u201cWe cannot have open immigration from any country if we cannot safely and reliably verify the identities of those entering the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14780\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14780\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14780 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2222-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Trump travel ban 2025\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2222-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2222-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2222-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2222-1-390x220.jpg 390w, https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2222-1.jpg 1110w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14780\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. immigration policy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 class=\"ai-optimize-14\" data-start=\"2220\" data-end=\"2251\"><strong data-start=\"2220\" data-end=\"2251\">&#8220;Racist and Discriminatory&#8221;<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-15\" data-start=\"2253\" data-end=\"2564\">Trump attributed his decision to a recent attack on a Jewish protest in Colorado, carried out by a man authorities say entered the country illegally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-15\" data-start=\"2253\" data-end=\"2564\">\u201cThis recent terrorist attack in Boulder, Colorado, highlights the severe risks our country faces from unchecked foreign entry,\u201d he said. \u201cWe don\u2019t want them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-16\" data-start=\"2566\" data-end=\"2807\">However, the suspect in the Boulder attack\u2014a 45-year-old man who injured 12 people while chanting \u201cFree Palestine\u201d and throwing Molotov cocktails\u2014was not from any of the countries on the travel ban list. He was reportedly of Egyptian origin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-17\" data-start=\"2809\" data-end=\"2857\">The decision drew sharp international criticism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-18\" data-start=\"2859\" data-end=\"3071\">UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker T\u00fcrk expressed concerns over the broad scope of the travel ban, citing violations of international law, including principles of non-discrimination and proportionality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-19\" data-start=\"3073\" data-end=\"3155\">Amnesty International denounced the decree as \u201cdiscriminatory, racist, and cruel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-20\" data-start=\"3157\" data-end=\"3326\">The African Union also voiced concern over the impact on seven African nations, warning the ban could damage decades of diplomatic, commercial, and educational exchange.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16158\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16158\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16158 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/788888888.jpg\" alt=\"Thousands across major U.S. cities protested President Trump\u2019s anti-immigration policies\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/788888888.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/788888888-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/788888888-768x461.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16158\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anti-Trump demonstrations USA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-21\" data-start=\"3328\" data-end=\"3428\">Chad, one of the affected African countries, responded by suspending visa issuance to U.S. citizens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-22\" data-start=\"3430\" data-end=\"3661\">Iranian-American Congresswoman Yasmin Ansari wrote on X (formerly Twitter):\u201cI know firsthand the pain these xenophobic and harsh <a href=\"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/2025\/03\/25\/trump-administration-plans-sweeping-travel-ban-on-43-countries-including-arab-nations\/\">travel<\/a> bans inflict. My family suffered because of it. We will fight back with everything we have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-23\" data-start=\"3663\" data-end=\"3937\">Exceptions to the ban include holders of specific visas and individuals whose travel serves \u201cU.S. national interests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-23\" data-start=\"3663\" data-end=\"3937\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/2025\/06\/05\/trump-signs-executive-order-banning-travel-from-12-nations\/\">ban<\/a> does not apply to athletes participating in the 2026 World Cup (hosted by the U.S., Mexico, and Canada) or the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watan-The travel ban on citizens of 12 countries, issued by former President Donald Trump last week, officially came into effect on Sunday night at 04:01 GMT, according to the presidential decree. The order, justified by \u201cprotecting the United States from foreign terrorists and other national security threats,\u201d targets citizens of Afghanistan, Burma (Myanmar), Chad, Republic &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1771,1824,5896],"class_list":["post-18559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-the-united-states","tag-travel-ban"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump&#039;s Travel Ban on 12 Countries Officially Enforced - Watan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Donald Trump\u2019s new travel ban targets 12 countries, reviving his earlier immigration 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