Trump Reinstates and Expands Travel Ban to Block Unvetted Foreign Nationals

President Donald Trump has once again taken bold action to defend America’s national security, issuing a sweeping executive order on Wednesday to ban or restrict travel from nearly 20 nations that fail to meet basic vetting and information-sharing standards.

In a memorandum released by the White House, Trump ordered a full travel ban on 12 high-risk countries, including Afghanistan, Iran, Yemen, and Somalia, while placing partial restrictions on seven others such as Cuba, Venezuela, and Sierra Leone.

“We don’t want them!” Trump declared in a Truth Social video, referencing the danger posed by unvetted foreign nationals and visa overstays, especially in light of the recent terror-linked attack in Boulder, Colorado by an Egyptian national who overstayed his visa.

Countries fully restricted under the order:

• Afghanistan

• Burma

• Chad

• Republic of the Congo

• Equatorial Guinea

• Eritrea

• Haiti

• Iran

• Libya

• Somalia

• Sudan

• Yemen

Countries with partial restrictions:

• Burundi

• Cuba

• Laos

• Sierra Leone

• Togo

• Turkmenistan

• Venezuela

The memorandum is clear: these countries have failed to implement adequate identity-management and information-sharing protocols. As a result, their nationals pose a heightened risk of terrorism, visa fraud, and public safety threats to the U.S.

“The United States must ensure that admitted aliens... do not bear hostile attitudes toward its citizens, culture, government, institutions, or founding principles,” the order states.

Trump’s action is not without precedent. In his first term, the 45th president issued a similar travel ban targeting terror-plagued nations a move that ignited media outrage and leftist court challenges. But in 2018, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in Trump’s favor, upholding his authority to defend the nation’s borders in the face of global terrorism.

This new order builds on that foundation, going further by factoring in visa overstays a growing threat that the mainstream media continues to ignore. According to DHS, more than 850,000 foreign nationals overstayed their visas in 2023 alone, many of them from countries with poor diplomatic ties or unreliable vetting processes.

Trump’s directive points out that these overstays “increase burdens on immigration and law enforcement components of the United States” and “exacerbate other risks related to national security and public safety.”

Democrats and media elites will no doubt scream “xenophobia,” just like they did in 2017. But here’s the reality: Trump is doing what Joe Biden refused to do take immigration threats seriously.

Biden’s open-borders agenda has emboldened bad actors, endangered law-abiding citizens, and flooded American communities with individuals whose identities cannot be verified. The attack in Boulder carried out by an illegal Egyptian national was the final straw.

“In this era of worldwide terrorism and extremist movements bent on harming innocent civilians,” Trump said, “we must properly vet those coming into our country.”

This isn’t just policy. It’s a matter of survival.

And with America under siege from illegal crossings, cartel violence, and foreign extremists, Trump’s travel ban is more than justified it’s long overdue.

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