A new travel ban imposed by US President Donald Trump's administration on mainly Muslim-majority and Middle Eastern countries came into effect post midnight on Monday (June 9).<h2> Trump travel ban 2.0: Which countries are affected?</h2><h2>&nbsp;</h2>The ban will mainly affect citizens of 12 countries: Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. The citizens of these 12 countries will be completely banned from entering the US.&nbsp;The Afghans on Special Immigrant Visas are exempted. These are people who worked with, and helped the US forces and administration during the two-decade US occupation of that country.&nbsp;Afghanistan remains one of the largest source countries for resettled refugees, with 14,000 people arriving in the one-year period up to September 2024, since the Taliban takeover of 2021. In its broader form, the Trump travel ban will affect seven more countries, whose citizens will face further scrutiny before entering.&nbsp;These countries are Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.<h2> Terrorism, poor vetting process, visa overstays are causes</h2>&nbsp;&nbsp;The travel ban is being imposed apparently due to terrorism allegedly emanating from the listed countries, lack of proper pre-departure vetting, and lack of cooperation from these countries on deportations.&nbsp;Officials also said the countries named had high visa overstay rates, and failure in sharing identity and threat information. The recent terror attack in Boulder, Colorado, was cited by Trump in defending the travel ban. The Egyptian suspect had overstayed a tourist visa. But notably, Egypt is not on the travel ban list.&nbsp;According to the Trump administration, eight of the 12 banned countries in the new list have had high visa overstay record.<h2>Travel ban amid massive immigration crackdown</h2><h2>&nbsp;</h2>The new Trump crackdown came even as pitched battles were being fought in Los Angeles between people and police during protests against the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).&nbsp;The Trump administration's crackdown on migration has targeted people from across the southern border as well as students from different countries who had entered the country legally.&nbsp;<h2>How will travel ban affect citizens of listed countries?</h2><h2>&nbsp;</h2>It is expected that those with visas already issued can enter the US even after the ban kicked in.&nbsp;The new travel ban order, signed by Trump last week, will not affect visas already issued to those in the list. But if applicants do not meet the stricter norms under the ban, their applications will be rejected from Monday.&nbsp;Most of the listed countries do not send a lot of people to the US in any case. But Haiti, Cuba and Venezuela are exceptions, as they have been among the top source countries of immigration. In Haiti, people are trying to escape poverty, hunger, gang violence and political turmoil.&nbsp;<h2> Is this travel ban different from that of Trump's first term?</h2> The new travel ban is limited in scope than the sweeping 'Muslim country ban' executive order of Trump's first term. That ban had rejected entry to thousands of people from Muslim-majority nations. For the current ban, Trump took into account passport screening deficiencies, refusal of countries to take back their citizens from the US, and visa overstay data from the Homeland Security department.<h2> Trump travel ban criticised</h2>&nbsp;&nbsp;The new travel ban was slammed by activists, particularly those supporting refugees from Afghanistan. Trump had suspended refugee resettlement as part of the flurry of orders on day one of his return to the White House. Abby Maxman, president of Oxfam America, was among those who criticised the travel ban, even as hundreds of people fought the immigration crackdowns in Los Angeles.&nbsp;&nbsp;“This policy is not about national security – it is about sowing division and vilifying communities that are seeking safety and opportunity in the United States,” Maxman said.&nbsp;&nbsp;

The citizens of these 12 countries will be completely banned from entering the US. The Afghans on Special Immigrant Visas are exempted.

A new travel ban imposed by US President Donald Trump's administration on mainly Muslim-majority and Middle Eastern countries came into effect post midnight on Monday (June 9). Trump travel ban 2.0: Which countries are affected? The ban will mainly affect citizens of 12 countries: Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. The citizens of these 12 countries will be completely banned from entering the US. The Afghans on Special Immigrant Visas are exempted. These are people who worked with, and helped the US forces and administration during the two-decade US occupation of that country. Afghanistan remains one of the largest source countries for resettled refugees, with 14,000 people arriving in the one-year period up to September 2024, since the Taliban takeover of 2021. In its broader form, the Trump travel ban will affect seven more countries, whose citizens will face further scrutiny before entering. These countries are Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela. Terrorism, poor vetting process, visa overstays are causes The travel ban is being imposed apparently due to terrorism allegedly emanating from the listed countries, lack of proper pre-departure vetting, and lack of cooperation from these countries on deportations. Officials also said the countries named had high visa overstay rates, and failure in sharing identity and threat information. The recent terror attack in Boulder, Colorado, was cited by Trump in defending the travel ban. The Egyptian suspect had overstayed a tourist visa. But notably, Egypt is not on the travel ban list. According to the Trump administration, eight of the 12 banned countries in the new list have had high visa overstay record. Travel ban amid massive immigration crackdown The new Trump crackdown came even as pitched battles were being fought in Los Angeles between people and police during protests against the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The Trump administration's crackdown on migration has targeted people from across the southern border as well as students from different countries who had entered the country legally. How will travel ban affect citizens of listed countries? It is expected that those with visas already issued can enter the US even after the ban kicked in. The new travel ban order, signed by Trump last week, will not affect visas already issued to those in the list. But if applicants do not meet the stricter norms under the ban, their applications will be rejected from Monday. Most of the listed countries do not send a lot of people to the US in any case. But Haiti, Cuba and Venezuela are exceptions, as they have been among the top source countries of immigration. In Haiti, people are trying to escape poverty, hunger, gang violence and political turmoil. Is this travel ban different from that of Trump's first term? The new travel ban is limited in scope than the sweeping 'Muslim country ban' executive order of Trump's first term. That ban had rejected entry to thousands of people from Muslim-majority nations. For the current ban, Trump took into account passport screening deficiencies, refusal of countries to take back their citizens from the US, and visa overstay data from the Homeland Security department. Trump travel ban criticised The new travel ban was slammed by activists, particularly those supporting refugees from Afghanistan. Trump had suspended refugee resettlement as part of the flurry of orders on day one of his return to the White House. Abby Maxman, president of Oxfam America, was among those who criticised the travel ban, even as hundreds of people fought the immigration crackdowns in Los Angeles. “This policy is not about national security – it is about sowing division and vilifying communities that are seeking safety and opportunity in the United States,” Maxman said.

The citizens of these 12 countries will be completely banned from entering the US. The Afghans on Special Immigrant Visas are exempted.

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&nbsp;Republican Donald Trump on Monday placed responsibility for a mass shooting in Florida squarely at the feet of radical Muslims, who he said were entering the country amidst a flood of refugees and &quot;trying to take over our children&quot;.&nbsp; 
 
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee drew on the country&#39;s deadliest mass shooting to sharpen his vow to ban Muslim immigrants, proposing that the United States suspend immigration from areas of the world where there is &quot;a proven history of terrorism&quot;. 
 
In his national security speech, Trump said it was time to &quot;tell the truth about radical Islam&quot;, the day after 49 people were killed at a gay nightclub in Orlando by a gunman, likely self-radicalised, who had sworn allegiance to the rebel group Islamic State. 
 
His comments contrasted sharply to those of Hillary Clinton, the wealthy businessman&#39;s likely Democratic rival in the Nov. 8 election, who urged increased intelligence gathering and more airstrikes on Islamic State territory, and cautioned against &quot;demonising&quot; American Muslims. 
 
&quot;If we want to protect the quality of life for all Americans - women and children, gay and straight, Jews and Christians and all people - then we need to tell the truth about radical Islam and we need to do it now&quot;, &nbsp;Trump told the crowd in New Hampshire. 
 
He went on to lambast Clinton&#39;s policies, saying they would allow &quot;hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Middle East&quot; to enter the United States without adequate security measures. 
 
There would be &quot;no system to vet them, or to prevent the radicalisation of... their children&quot;, he said. &quot;Not only their children, by the way. They&#39;re trying to take over our children and convince them how wonderful ISIS is and how wonderful Islam is, and we don&#39;t know what&#39;s happening&quot;. 
 
Trump said that, if elected, he would use the executive authority of the presidency to impose stronger controls on immigration to protect Americans from attacks, fine-tuning his earlier campaign promise to temporarily ban the entry of foreign Muslims to shore up national security. 
 
&quot;When I&rsquo;m elected, I will suspend immigration from areas of the world where there is a proven history of terrorism against the United States, Europe or our allies until we fully understand how to end these threats,&quot; he said. 
 
He noted that the parents of the Florida gunman, Omar Mateen, 29, were born in Afghanistan. Pointing to specific incidents such as the September 11, 2001 attacks,Trump said threats were posed by people with roots in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Somalia. 
 
The immigration ban, he said would last until &quot;we are in a position to properly screen these people coming into our country. They&#39;re pouring in, and we don&rsquo;t know what we&rsquo;re doing&quot;. 
 
Trump&#39;s hard-line proposals on immigration have helped fuel his surge in popularity among some conservative voters. But they have also triggered heavy condemnation from minority and human rights activists, and his political opponents - many of whom have called his rhetoric racist. 
 
Trump has rejected the criticism&nbsp;and has said he is often misunderstood by the media and his opponents. 
 
In her response to the Florida massacre, Clinton, warned against demonising Muslim-Americans and called for increased efforts to remove Islamic State propaganda from the internet, more air strikes in areas held by the group and better coordination with allies in the region. 
 
&quot;The Orlando terrorist may be dead, but the virus that poisoned his mind remains very strong, and we must attack it&quot;, &nbsp;she said in a speech in Cleveland. 
 
She specifically criticized three U.S. allies - Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Kuwait - for allowing its citizens to fund mosques and schools that train jihadists. 
 
She also proposed stricter gun control laws, reiterating previous calls to prohibit people on terrorism watch lists from buying firearms. She pointed out that while the Federal Bureau of Investigation was aware of Mateen as a possible threat, he was still able to purchase a gun legally. 
 
&quot;It&rsquo;s important that we stop the terrorists from getting the tools they need to carry out the attacks, and that is especially true when it comes to assault weapons like those used in Orlando and San Bernardino,&quot;, California, Clinton said, drawing a standing ovation from the crowd. 
 
Trump challenged Clinton to explain why she favoured letting Syrian civil war refugees into the United States. He said his policies would better protect American women, gays and lesbians, Jews and Christians. Trump&#39;s support among women and gay voters lags far behind that of Clinton. 
 
&quot;Radical Islam is anti-woman, anti-gay and anti-American&quot;, said Trump. 
 
He accused her of having ties to Saudi Arabia. 
 
&quot;Saudi Arabia and many of the countries that gave vast amounts of money to the Clinton Foundation want women as slaves and to kill gays&quot;, he said in a Facebook post. &quot;Hillary must return all money from such countries&quot;! 
(Reuters)

Says the US should suspend immigration from areas of the world where there is 'a proven history of terrorism'

Republican Donald Trump on Monday placed responsibility for a mass shooting in Florida squarely at the feet of radical Muslims, who he said were entering the country amidst a flood of refugees and "trying to take over our children". The presumptive Republican presidential nominee drew on the country's deadliest mass shooting to sharpen his vow to ban Muslim immigrants, proposing that the United States suspend immigration from areas of the world where there is "a proven history of terrorism". In his national security speech, Trump said it was time to "tell the truth about radical Islam", the day after 49 people were killed at a gay nightclub in Orlando by a gunman, likely self-radicalised, who had sworn allegiance to the rebel group Islamic State. His comments contrasted sharply to those of Hillary Clinton, the wealthy businessman's likely Democratic rival in the Nov. 8 election, who urged increased intelligence gathering and more airstrikes on Islamic State territory, and cautioned against "demonising" American Muslims. "If we want to protect the quality of life for all Americans - women and children, gay and straight, Jews and Christians and all people - then we need to tell the truth about radical Islam and we need to do it now", Trump told the crowd in New Hampshire. He went on to lambast Clinton's policies, saying they would allow "hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Middle East" to enter the United States without adequate security measures. There would be "no system to vet them, or to prevent the radicalisation of... their children", he said. "Not only their children, by the way. They're trying to take over our children and convince them how wonderful ISIS is and how wonderful Islam is, and we don't know what's happening". Trump said that, if elected, he would use the executive authority of the presidency to impose stronger controls on immigration to protect Americans from attacks, fine-tuning his earlier campaign promise to temporarily ban the entry of foreign Muslims to shore up national security. "When I’m elected, I will suspend immigration from areas of the world where there is a proven history of terrorism against the United States, Europe or our allies until we fully understand how to end these threats," he said. He noted that the parents of the Florida gunman, Omar Mateen, 29, were born in Afghanistan. Pointing to specific incidents such as the September 11, 2001 attacks,Trump said threats were posed by people with roots in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Somalia. The immigration ban, he said would last until "we are in a position to properly screen these people coming into our country. They're pouring in, and we don’t know what we’re doing". Trump's hard-line proposals on immigration have helped fuel his surge in popularity among some conservative voters. But they have also triggered heavy condemnation from minority and human rights activists, and his political opponents - many of whom have called his rhetoric racist. Trump has rejected the criticism and has said he is often misunderstood by the media and his opponents. In her response to the Florida massacre, Clinton, warned against demonising Muslim-Americans and called for increased efforts to remove Islamic State propaganda from the internet, more air strikes in areas held by the group and better coordination with allies in the region. "The Orlando terrorist may be dead, but the virus that poisoned his mind remains very strong, and we must attack it", she said in a speech in Cleveland. She specifically criticized three U.S. allies - Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Kuwait - for allowing its citizens to fund mosques and schools that train jihadists. She also proposed stricter gun control laws, reiterating previous calls to prohibit people on terrorism watch lists from buying firearms. She pointed out that while the Federal Bureau of Investigation was aware of Mateen as a possible threat, he was still able to purchase a gun legally. "It’s important that we stop the terrorists from getting the tools they need to carry out the attacks, and that is especially true when it comes to assault weapons like those used in Orlando and San Bernardino,", California, Clinton said, drawing a standing ovation from the crowd. Trump challenged Clinton to explain why she favoured letting Syrian civil war refugees into the United States. He said his policies would better protect American women, gays and lesbians, Jews and Christians. Trump's support among women and gay voters lags far behind that of Clinton. "Radical Islam is anti-woman, anti-gay and anti-American", said Trump. He accused her of having ties to Saudi Arabia. "Saudi Arabia and many of the countries that gave vast amounts of money to the Clinton Foundation want women as slaves and to kill gays", he said in a Facebook post. "Hillary must return all money from such countries"! (Reuters)

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