The Donald Trump administration is contemplating imposing a brand new journey ban that might have an effect on residents from as many as 43 international locations, together with Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Russia, The New York Occasions reported, quoting nameless officers.
A draft record of suggestions by safety officers proposes categorising international locations into three groups–Crimson, Orange, and Yellow–to prohibit journey. Being positioned on the Crimson Record would imply an entire ban on getting into the USA.
Pakistan and Russia are included within the “Orange Record,” which consists of 10 international locations dealing with restricted journey reasonably than an outright ban. Prosperous enterprise vacationers is perhaps allowed to enter, however immigrant and vacationer visa candidates would face restrictions. Residents on that record would even be subjected to obligatory in-person interviews as a way to obtain a visa, as reported by The New York Occasions.
Different international locations within the “Orange Record” embrace Myanmar, Belarus, Haiti, Laos, Eritrea, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, and Turkmenistan.
The draft additionally locations 10 international locations, together with Afghanistan and Bhutan, on the Crimson Record, that means their residents might face a full visa suspension.
The opposite international locations on the Crimson Record are Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen, The New York Occasions reported.
The proposal additionally features a draft “yellow” record of twenty-two international locations that may be given 60 days to clear up perceived deficiencies, with the specter of being moved onto one of many different lists if they didn’t comply.
As reported by The New York Occasions, the problems might embrace failing to share with the USA details about incoming vacationers, purportedly insufficient safety practices for issuing passports, or the promoting of citizenship to folks from banned international locations, which might function a loophole across the restrictions.
That record contains 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, Sao Tome and Principe, Vanuatu and Zimbabwe.
Notably, this would be the second time that Donald Trump would impose a journey ban, after having performed so in his first time period when he restricted the residents from seven Muslim-majority nations, a coverage that went via a number of iterations earlier than it was upheld by the Supreme Court docket in 2018. That ban focused residents of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen, Al Jazeera reported.
