Travel Ban

Nine months after Trump introduced a controversial travel ban widely panned as discriminatory and anti-Muslim, the White House has issued new regulations that add North Korea, Chad and Venezuela to the list.
“Making America Safe is my number one priority. We will not admit those into our country we cannot safely vet,” Trump said in a tweet shortly after the proclamation was released.
Speaking earlier on the proposed changes to the ban, the former reality television star earlier told reporters, “The tougher, the better.”

Addition of North Korea and Venezuela broadens restrictions from original, mostly Muslim-majority list.

(MEE) — The United States will prohibit entry of citizens from North Korea to the US as part of a sweeping new travel ban that also slaps restrictions on Iran, Chad, Libya, Syria, Venezuela, Yemen and Somalia, the Trump administration said in a statement on Sunday.

No information has been released about the nationalities of two suspects arrested in connection with Friday’s subway bombing.

Demonstrators hold signs at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport during a demonstration to denounce President Donald Trump’s executive order that bars citizens of seven predominantly Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S., Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017, in Atlanta. (AP/Branden Camp)
A team of state attorneys general launched their salvo against the Trump administration’s efforts to restrict travel to the United States by grandparents and other close relatives who come from six predominately Muslim nations.

A demonstrator displays a sign reading “Boycott Israel, racist state”. (Photo: Reuters)
The Israeli government has issued new criteria on Tuesday for banning people who advocate boycotting Israel.
The announcement came a day after five interfaith activists were prohibited from boarding a flight from the US to Israel reportedly because of their involvement in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

In January 2004, Giorgio Agamben, an Italian philosopher, refused to travel to the United States to teach at New York University after biometric security measures such as retina scans and fingerprints were introduced to U.S. visas in the wake of the September 11 attack.

“I feel tired of being cast aside and of being forced to prove my humanity at every turn,” Elham Khatami, the outreach director for the National Iranian American Council, told TIME magazine. (Photo: Banned Grandmas/Instagram)
When the Supreme Court partially reinstated President Donald Trump’s ban last month, it included in its ruling an exemption for those who have “a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States.”

The Supreme Court approved Trump’s ban against entry of foreign nationals from countries with high instances of terrorism for a 90-day period, but exempted anyone that has a ‘relationship’ with refugees already in the US. [...]

The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments in favour and against Donald Trump’s executive order banning entry into the United States of passport holders from Libya, Yemen, Syria, Somalia, Sudan and Iran.
The highest court in the US found that prior decisions by lower courts pausing the ban were not in order and that until October when the Supreme Court will hear arguments, the majority of points from the executive order including the banning entry into the US of all individuals without travel documents, including self-proclaimed refugees, can be enforced.

Miles Treakle, left, of Seattle, holds a sign that reads “Refugees Welcome Ban Trump,” as he protests against President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban, May 15, 2017, outside a federal courthouse in Seattle. (AP/Ted S. Warren)
WASHINGTON — Most Americans say federal courts are acting properly in blocking President Donald Trump’s travel ban, according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.