President Trump’s new ban on vacationers from 12 nations in Africa, Asia and the Center East has come beneath harsh criticism from California organizations representing Asians, Muslims and Jews.
The ban announced Wednesday applies to folks from Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.
As well as, there are journey restrictions for folks from Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela who don’t already maintain a visa.
The ban and restrictions, which echo the “Muslim ban” of Trump’s first administration, go into impact Monday.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice, a Los Angeles based-network of 4 unbiased Asian American civil rights organizations, strongly condemned the ban, saying it can “stigmatize total nations and communities.”
“Trump’s new journey ban is the newest of a number of makes an attempt to focus on our communities in his bigger agenda to stigmatize and finish immigration and refugee resettlement,” the group mentioned in an announcement. “These efforts echo and reinforce an extended historical past of xenophobic exclusion, from the Chinese language Exclusion Act to Japanese American incarceration.”
The San Diego workplace of the Council on American-Islamic Relations mentioned the ban scapegoats total nations.
“This isn’t only a Muslim Ban — it’s a full-blown Muslim and African Ban. It’s a shameful, recycled assault that manufacturers total communities as suspect merely due to the place they arrive from,” mentioned Government Director Tazheen Nizam in an announcement. “It weaponizes concern, twists international points into excuses, and makes use of them as a canopy to justify sweeping, racist exclusions.”
“This isn’t about safety—it’s about scapegoating. And we see it for precisely what it’s,” she mentioned.
The American Jewish Committee, a worldwide advocacy group with a brand new San Diego workplace, mentioned that whereas it’s grateful for the Trump administration’s efforts to combat antisemitism, the journey ban “lacks a transparent connection to the underlying downside.”
“We’re involved that yesterday’s proclamation — imposing a full journey ban on 12 nations and sharp restrictions on seven others — will forestall these in want of actual refuge from getting into the U.S.,” the AJC mentioned in an announcement. “It stays our robust perception that it’s potential to permit for simply immigration and refugee insurance policies whereas upholding the nationwide safety of america.”
