“Very high risk”: Trump says these 12 nations can’t be trusted for safe migration, but leaves out statement terrorist country

Donald Trump is pressing ahead with tighter immigration controls. The former president has signed an executive order barring entry to the United States from 12 countries and placing partial restrictions on citizens of seven others, citing national security concerns.

What countries are included in Trump’s travel ban?

The measure completely prohibits immigration from Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. It also imposes partial restrictions on travelers from Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.

The ban will take effect on June 9. It will be reviewed 90 days after implementation, and then every 180 days to decide whether it should be extended, lifted or modified.

Trump claimed the 12 countries facing a full ban “fail in screening and control procedures and pose a very high risk to the United States.”

“We cannot allow open migration from any country where we cannot carry out safe and reliable vetting and control,” he said. “That’s why today I’m signing a new executive order imposing travel restrictions on countries like Yemen, Somalia, Haiti, Libya and many others.”

“In the 21st century, we’ve seen terror attack after terror attack carried out by foreigners who overstayed their visas and came from dangerous places around the world,” the Republican continued, blaming former president Joe Biden for his “open-door policies.”

Trump claimed that as a result, there are now “millions and millions” of undocumented immigrants in the country. He also recalled issuing similar bans during his first term. “We will not allow what happened in Europe to happen here in the United States,” he added.

Notably, while the president opened his statement referencing the recent terrorist attack in Boulder, Colorado as “underscoring the extreme dangers,” Egypt, where the attacker was from, was not included on the banned list.

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