One of the memes in Liberal World is he did this because of losses Trump has taken, to deflect from blowing up the drug runner boats and his “mean tweet” about Rob Reiner, but, really, Trump seems to do things for 2 reasons: they are things he believes in, and he also likes making liberals unhinged
Trump Expands Travel Ban and Restrictions to 20 More Countries
Trump saying hello to Judge Sara
President Trump on Tuesday expanded travel restrictions to include 20 more countries, just weeks after he promised to do so when authorities arrested an Afghan national in the shooting of two National Guard troops in Washington.
The revised policy, which takes effect on Jan. 1, fully blocks travel for individuals from five additional countries — Syria, South Sudan, Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso — and also for people with documents issued by the Palestinian Authority. The Trump administration also added partial travel restrictions for individuals from 15 additional countries, predominantly in Africa. With the expansion, there are now more than 35 countries with U.S. travel restrictions.
Mr. Trump first instituted a travel ban on 12 countries, including Afghanistan, in June and vowed after the shooting last month to “permanently pause migration from all third world countries.” Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, said she recommended to Mr. Trump “a full travel ban on every damn country that’s been flooding our nation with killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies.”
Taken together, Mr. Trump’s new policy substantially expands his crackdown on legal forms of immigration, with the administration either fully or partly limiting travel from nearly 20 percent of the countries in the world. The revised policy also greatly expands the restrictions on individuals from countries with partial bans.
“This expanded proclamation really slams the door on nearly all noncitizens from the listed countries,” said Doug Rand, a former top official at the Department of Homeland Security in the Biden administration.
Good. The U.S. should not be letting in people who are a threat to the U.S. No one remembers 9/11 anymore. Or the other terrorist attacks. Or knows all the attacks that still occur. We shouldn’t be letting in people who bring no value, who are going to be problems, who expect the U.S. to take care of them.
But critics of Mr. Trump’s immigration policy said the moves were the latest manifestation of the president’s disdain for immigrants, particularly those from nations in Africa and the Middle East.
“We shouldn’t be surprised that President Trump is continuing to push our immigration system back toward an era when the United States enforced racial quotas,” said Andrea R. Flores, a former White House immigration official in the Obama and Biden administrations. “He has consistently singled out certain nationalities as scapegoats, and immigration law grants him too much discretion to discriminate based on his preferences.”
This Biden administration?
More: CBS News says the number is much higher
President Trump on Tuesday more than doubled the list of countries subject to his travel ban or to heavy restrictions, bringing the total number of nations affected by the sweeping set of immigration and entry limits to 39.
The first iteration of the travel ban Mr. Trump issued in June included 19 countries, fully barring the entry of immigrants and travelers from Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. It also partially suspended the entry of nationals of Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.
The proclamation signed by Mr. Trump on Tuesday added seven countries to the list of states facing full entry restrictions: Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Laos, Sierra Leone, South Sudan and Syria. It imposed partial entry limits on immigrants and travelers from another 15 countries, including Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Benin, Cote d’Ivoire, Dominica, Gabon, Gambia, Malawi, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Tonga, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Mr. Trump’s proclamation also enacted an entry ban for those traveling with documents issued by the Palestinian Authority, which governs parts of the West Bank. The restrictions on travelers from Turkmenistan were eased, after Mr. Trump said that country had improved its information-sharing with the U.S.
Problematic countries.
This… plus more splodey boats, please.
“18,000 with known or suspected ties to terrorists allowed to enter..”
They were probably just trying to “save democracy”