Trump Travel Ban

Last Monday, June 9, President Donald Trump’s bans took effect. It banned immigrants from 12 countries – Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen. Another seven countries will face a partial ban. These countries are Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela. testified in court.

The reason Trump finally put out this law after promising to replace it in his speech is because there was a recent firebomb attack in Boulder, Colorado. Although studies believe that Mohamed Sabry Soliman, an Egyptian man was the one who carried out this attack, Egypt isn’t on the list of banned countries. Trump says this is for the safety of America. “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,” he says. “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,” he says. He believes that nothing could stop him and the other people who work in the White House from keeping America safe.

In 2017, Trump was also president, making the same ban, just with different countries. At that time, they had to change it and revise it multiple times. Stephen Vladeck thinks that Trump has improved his ban from last time. When Joe Biden became president in 2021, he simply stopped enforcing that law, calling it a “stain on our national conscience.“