Trump's travel ban on citizens from 12 countries takes effect

By&nbspEuronews&nbspwith&nbspAP

Published connected 09/06/2025 - 8:40 GMT+2•Updated 9:08

US President Donald Trump's sweeping prohibition connected recreation to nan US by citizens of 12 countries took effect connected Monday amid rising tensions complete immigration.

The 12 countries targeted see Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, nan Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. Nationals from Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela are partially restricted.

On Wednesday, Trump warned successful a video that caller countries could beryllium added to nan database arsenic "threats look astir nan world."

The prohibition comes much than 8 years aft his first recreation prohibition successful 2017, which denied introduction to citizens from chiefly Muslim-majority countries, sparking chaos astatine galore airports and prompting months of ineligible battles.

Unlike Trump's first ban, nary specified disruption was instantly discernible astatine airports and different introduction points.

Experts expect nan caller proclamation, which is broader and much cautiously crafted, to withstand ineligible challenges partially owed to its attraction connected nan visa exertion process.

The prohibition does not revoke visas issued to citizens of countries included connected nan list. However, unless nan applicant meets constrictive criteria for an exemption to nan ban, their exertion will beryllium rejected from Monday.

Travellers pinch antecedently issued visas should still beryllium capable to participate nan US moreover aft nan prohibition takes effect.

The announcement that nan prohibition would return effect connected Monday was overshadowed by different migration battles, including wide protests successful Los Angeles against Trump’s deportation raids. The demonstrations prompted nan deployment of nan National Guard, contempt objections from California’s governor.

The argumentation targets explicitly citizens of Haiti and Afghanistan, though it makes exceptions for individuals who collaborated intimately pinch nan US authorities during nan two-decade war.

It besides imposes stricter measures connected Venezuelan nationals, who person faced accrued unit nether nan Trump management successful caller months, including abrupt deportations to a detention installation successful El Salvador, which person ignited a ineligible battle.

The measurement has been denounced by groups that supply assistance and resettlement thief to refugees. “This argumentation is not astir nationalist information — it is astir sowing section and vilifying communities that are seeking information and opportunity successful nan United States,” Abby Maxman, president of Oxfam America, said.

Trump has justified nan prohibition by claiming that immoderate countries had "deficient” screening for passports and different nationalist documents aliases person historically refused to return backmost their ain citizens.

The nationals successful nan countries included connected nan database enforce "terrorism-related” and “public-safety” risks, arsenic good arsenic risks of overstaying their visas.

He besides tied nan prohibition to a dislike crime onslaught successful Colorado, which wounded a twelve people, saying it underscored nan dangers posed by visitors who overstay visas successful nan US. The man charged successful nan incident is from Egypt, a state not included successful Trump's list.