Trump Restricts Travel to America From 12 Countries
Trump: “We will not allow people to enter our country who wish to do us harm and nothing will stop us from keeping America safe.”
President Donald Trump has implemented a policy that doesn’t allow people from 12 countries to enter America, “President Donald J. Trump Restricts the Entry of Foreign Nationals to Protect the United States from Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats.”
“Pursuant to President Trump’s Executive Order 14161, issued on January 20, 2025, titled ‘Protecting the United States from Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats,’ national security agencies engaged in a robust assessment of the risk that countries posed to the United States, including regarding terrorism and national security, according to the order.
The countries with full suspension:
- Aghanistan
- Burma
- Chad
- Republic of the Congo
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Haiti
- Iran
- Libya
- Somalia
- Sudan
- Yemen
Partial suspension:
- Burundi
- Cuba
- Laos
- Sierra Leone
- Togo
- Turkmenistan
- Venezuela
The countries under full suspension have at least 20% visa overstayers. Many of them also lack a functioning government to issue passports or documents and properly vet and screen people.
Iran, Libya, and Yemen did not have visa stats in the fact sheet. Instead, the countries made the list because of terrorism and sponsoring terrorist groups.
Afghanistan’s description included Taliban terrorism but also visas. The fact sheet says 9.7% of those in America from Afghanistan on a business/tourist visa overstayed the visa. Out of those here on the student, vocational, and exchange visitor visa, 29.3% overstayed it.
I wonder if the administration will release more information. Laos, Sierra Leone, and Togo made the partial suspension list and yet have a high number of people who overstay their visas.
Cuba is also on that list despite being a state sponsor of terrorism.
Trump said in a video:
The recent terror attack in Boulder, Colorado, has underscored the extreme dangers posed to our country by the entry of foreign nationals who are not properly vetted, as well as those who come here as temporary visitors and overstay their visas. We don’t want them.
In the 21st century, we’ve seen one terror attack after another carried out by foreign visa overstayers from dangerous places all over the world. And thanks to Biden’s open door policies, today there are millions and millions of these illegals who should not be in the country.
In my first term, my powerful travel restrictions were one of our most successful policies, and they were a key part of preventing major foreign terror attacks on American soil. We will not let what happened in Europe happen to America.
That’s why on my first day back in office, I directed the secretary of state to perform a security review of high risk regions and make recommendations for where restrictions should be imposed. Among the national security threats, their analysis considered are the large scale presence of terrorists, failure to cooperate on visa security, inability to verify travelers identities, inadequate record keeping of criminal histories, and persistently high rates of illegal visa overstays and other things. Very simply, we cannot have open migration from any country where we cannot safely and reliably vet and screen those who seek to enter the United States.
That is why today I am signing a new executive order placing travel restrictions on countries including Yemen, Somalia, Haiti, Libya, and numerous others.
The strength of the restrictions we’re applying depends on the severity of the threat posed. The list is subject to revision based on whether material improvements are made, and likewise, new countries can be added as threats emerge around the world.
But we will not allow people to enter our country who wish to do us harm and nothing will stop us from keeping America safe.
BREAKING: President Trump releases video statement following his decision to ban entry into the United States from 12 countries.
Seven other countries have partial restrictions.
The 12 countries with full travel restrictions are: Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of the… pic.twitter.com/LywxQ7XPzi
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) June 5, 2025
Trump mentions the Colorado terror attack but the list does not have Egypt. Mohamed Soliman, the suspect, and his family are Egyptian nationals.
The administration moved to deport Soliman’s wife and five children, but a Colorado judge blocked the action.
Soliman’s work authorization expired in March.
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A federal judge stays in 321.
I give it 24 hours.
Sounds like a reasonable first step.
Is Burma a thing again?
Can’t remember ever hearing of news about terrorists from Burma or Eritrea. Venezuela, on the other hand…
What do you call it when President Trump restricts travel from 12 countries?
Off to a good start!
“Many of them also lack a functioning government to issue passports or documents and properly vet and screen people.”
4th world countries in chaos.
The vile and ugly (within and without) Muslim supremacist ingrate, bigot, hustler and fraud, Ilhan Omar, has already started up with hysterics about an alleged “Muslim ban.” Predictable and dishonest as ever.
I’m in favor of a Muslim ban. The vast majority have no interest in assimilating into Western culture. Make assimilation great again.
I am stunned at the inclusion of Afghanistan. We’ve left behind many Afghanis who worked closely with the US military. And I have to wonder what we owe people at high risk because of us.
We have an Afghan family here in Cincinnati whose father was an interpreter for US forces. He and his immediate family were brought here by an agency of some type, By one of those miraculous coincidences that sometimes happen, the interpreter turned out to have worked with the son of a friend., a demolition expert who credits the interpreter with saving his life. Naturally, his mother has been deeply involved in helping the interpreter’s family settle into their new life.
Here is the problem: the interpreter’s brother recently had his throat cut by Isis. (Yes, Isis.). Luckily, it was done carelessly and the brother survived. He is currently in India. He was somehow approved for coming to the US, since he had been a maintenance mechanic for US forces, but he must apply for a visa at a US Embassy. Word in India is that other embassies are faster and easier than India’s, so we have been raising money to get the brother where he can get a visa to come to the US.
Now what?
I well understand that Muslim Afghans are from a totally different society than ours. Theirs is pretty much tribal,. Luckily, the children have adapted very well, as they do. But what do we owe the men who cooperated with US forces and made their stay there possible? Safety from retribution?
I think we do owe them safe harbor.
my bet is that if individuals are able to they will be allowed in if they were with usa military…vetted etc
You’re right about the brother. I’ve just been told he already has his Special Immigrant Visa, so will be allowed in. I wish they were not Muslim, which is so seriously at odds with Justice-Christian principles, but we put these people in danger and are now under obligation to save them if we can.
Guess who didn’t proof read Judeo-Christian!
now that the dems have basically admitted to rigging the 2020 elections
wonder if the gop will correctly use that fact to increase their positions with super moderate dems who look to punish the dems for creating the obvious chaos they have in the usa
Add more countries please.
“In 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice reported the arrest of two Myanmar citizens in New York for a plot to injure or kill Myanmar’s Ambassador to the United Nations.”
The US government calls this country Burma.