The Donald Trump administration is reportedly contemplating sweeping journey restrictions for residents of 43 international locations as a part of a brand new ban, persevering with an immigration crackdown that the US President initiated firstly of his second time period in January.
The New York Instances reported that an inner memo divides these international locations into three separate classes.
The primary group (known as ‘crimson record’) contains 11 international locations: Afghanistan, Bhutan, Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela, and Yemen. Their residents are proposed to be ‘flatly barred’ from travelling to the US.
The second group (‘orange record’) includes 10 nations, for which journey could be restricted however not lower off. Of their case, prosperous enterprise travellers may very well be allowed to enter the US, however not these on immigrant or vacationer visas. This group contains Belarus, Eritrea, Haiti, Laos, Myanmar, Pakistan, Russia, Sierra Leone, South Sudan and Turkmenistan.
The third class (yellow record), is the biggest of the three with 22 international locations, and would have 60 days to clear up perceived deficiencies, with the specter of being moved onto one of many different teams if they didn’t comply.
It contains Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Congo, Dominica, Equatorial Guinea, Gambia, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, São Tomé and Príncipe, Vanuatu and Zimbabwe.
A US official who spoke on the situation of anonymity cautioned there may very well be adjustments on the record, and it was but to be permitted by the Trump administration, together with Marco Rubio, the secretary of state.