Trump adds more countries to his travel ban list
The Trump Administration has announced new restrictions on travellers entering the US after the existing immigration ban expired on Sunday.
A new ban on travel to the US now includes citizens of North Korea and Chad, as well as Venezuelan senior government officials and their immediate families.
They are added to the countries listed in earlier versions of Trump’s travel ban: Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
One country, Sudan, has been removed from the latest blacklist.
Trump said: "North Korea does not cooperate with the United States government in any respect and fails to satisfy all information-sharing requirements.
"As president, I must act to protect the security and interests of the United States and its people."
"Making America safe is my number one priority. We will not admit those into our country we cannot safely vet," Trump later tweeted.
Although North Korea and Venezuela are not Muslim countries, the American Civil Liberties Union said that adding these two nations ‘doesn’t obfuscate the real fact that the administration’s order is still a Muslim ban’.
White House officials said all current valid visas would be honoured and waivers may be possible on a case-by-case basis.
Amnesty International USA issued a statement to say: "Just because the original ban was especially outrageous does not mean we should stand for yet another version of government-sanctioned discrimination."
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Lisa joined Travel Weekly nearly 25 years ago as technology reporter and then sailed around the world for a couple of years as cruise correspondent, before becoming deputy editor. Now freelance, Lisa writes for various print and web publications, edits Corporate Traveller’s client magazine, Gateway, and works on the acclaimed Remembering Wildlife series of photography books, which raise awareness of nature’s most at-risk species and helps to fund their protection.
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