{"id":24205,"date":"2017-09-25T18:44:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T18:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorlines.madeostudio.com\/article\/trump-administration-expands-travel-ban\/"},"modified":"2017-09-25T18:44:34","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T18:44:34","slug":"trump-administration-expands-travel-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/article\/trump-administration-expands-travel-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Administration Expands Travel Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Trump Administration Expands Travel Ban<\/h3>\n

\n By Kenrya Rankin<\/span> Sep 25, 2017<\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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Following three days of tweeting<\/a> from President Donald Trump that National Football League team owners should \u201cfire or suspend\u201d players who protest police violence, his administration quietly released an updated version<\/a> of his \u201cMuslim ban<\/a>\u201d on Sunday (September 24) night.<\/p>\n

Concerns of discrimination regarding the previous iteration of the travel ban\u2014which bars entry to all refugees and nationals of six mostly Muslim countries (Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen) who don\u2019t have a government-defined \u201cbona fide relationship<\/a>\u201d with a person or entity in the United States\u2014are scheduled<\/a> to be argued before the Supreme Court on October 10. But the citizen ban expired yesterday (September 24), and the refugee ban will expire on October 24.<\/p>\n

The updated ban<\/a> restricts travel for visitors from eight countries: five of the original six (Sudan is not included in this version), plus Chad, North Korea and Venezuela. It\u2019s set to go into effect on October 18.<\/p>\n

The restrictions are tailored by country, with entry suspended for nationals of Chad, Libya, North Korea, Syria and Yemen as immigrants and nonimmigrants on business or tourist visas.<\/p>\n

Nationals of Iran are barred as immigrants and nonimmigrants, but people traveling on student and exchange visitor visas will be permitted entry, while being \u201csubject to enhanced screening and vetting requirements.\u201d<\/p>\n

People from Somalia are barred as immigrants; those seeking to travel as nonimmigrants are \u201csubject to additional scrutiny to determine if applicants are connected to terrorist organizations or otherwise pose a threat to the national security or public safety of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n

And the restriction on Venezuelans is limited to government officials who are \u201cinvolved in screening and vetting procedures,\u201d and their immediate families.<\/p>\n

As The Washington Post<\/a> reports, administration officials maintain that the ban is not meant to keep Muslims out of the United States. From The Post:<\/p>\n

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Critics of the administration have argued that the travel bans are an unconstitutional attempt to deliver on Trump\u2019s campaign promise of \u201ca total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.\u201d Administration officials deny that any of the bans were aimed at Muslims, saying they are based on security concerns about visitors from countries with failing or weak governments.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe restrictions either previously or now were never, ever ever based on race, religion or creed,\u2019\u2019 one senior administration official said. \u201cThose governments are simply not compliant with our basic security requirements.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Anthony D. Romero, executive director for the American Civil Liberties Union\u2014which is set to argue that the ban is discriminatory before the Supreme Court next month\u2014is not convinced. <\/p>\n

\u201cSix of President Trump’s targeted countries are Muslim. The fact that Trump has added North Korea\u2014with few visitors to the U.S.\u2014and a few government officials from Venezuela doesn\u2019t obfuscate the real fact that the administration\u2019s order is still a Muslim ban,\" he said in a statement<\/a>. \"President Trump\u2019s original sin of targeting Muslims cannot be cured by throwing other countries onto his enemies list.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n

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