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· According to some reports, President Trump may impose
travel ban on four African nations such as Sudan, Eritrea, Nigeria
and Tanzania. Amongst this, only Sudan is a Muslim majority nation.
· Trump told a media house that plans were afoot to upgrade
the controversial list. The same report says that he however remained
mute on the affected countries. The measure will affect issuance of
visas to people from these countries. It will also affect those who
are seeking business and visiting visas from these countries.
According to some reports, President Trump may impose travel ban on
four African nations such as Sudan, Eritrea, Nigeria and Tanzania.
Amongst this, only Sudan is a Muslim majority nation. A notification
to this effect is expected early next week, reports say.
President Trump .made this statement on the sidelines of the ongoing
2020 World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland. According to some
reports, Trump told a media house that plans were afoot to upgrade
the controversial list. The same report says that he however remained
mute on the affected countries. The measure will affect issuance of
visas to people from these countries. It will also affect those who
are seeking business and visiting visas from these countries.
President’s ban on travel of people from select countries is nothing
new. Immediately after coming into office, Trump issued his first
controversial travel ban. It barred people from Muslim-majority
countries from entering the United States. Countries that were
affected by that time were Libya, Somalia, Iran, Syria and Yemen.
The US Supreme Court in June 2018 upheld that decision by President
Trump maintaining that it was within Trump’s executive powers to issue
such an order. However, some activists and politicians are still
fighting against the controversial decision.
Informed sources say that they had expected the upcoming announcement
to be timed to coincide with the third anniversary of Trump’s first
travel ban announced on January 27, 2017. The current ban, people in
the knowledge of things say suspends immigrant and non-immigrant visas
to applicants from the affected countries with exceptions, including
for students and those who have established “significant contacts” in
the U.S. Incidentally, experts say that it is a significant
softening from Trump’s initial order, which had suspended travel from
Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen for 90 days, blocked
refugee admissions for 120 days and suspended travel from Syria.
