Bummer: Trump Adds 5 More Countries To Travel Ban List

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?