“We don’t want them.” It was by this statement that Donald Trump justified the first wave of countries whose nationals are prohibited from the United States.
Twelve countries are worried, but this list could be quickly longer. According to the Washington Post, an internal note of the State Department would go to another 36 countries, including 25 African nations, including Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Egypt, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Senegal or even Syria.
The reasons given to explain this prohibition are the same: these countries* have not complied with the new US security requirements, issuing reliable identity documents, fight against false documents and cooperation for the return of the nationals expelled.
They have 60 days to fulfill it for lack of which the nationals of these countries will be subject to a prohibition of total or partial entry. The exceptions, applied to the first list of countries, are planned for the headlines of certain visas and for people whose trip to the United States “serves the national interest.”
In a video posted in X, the US president had assured that “the recent terrorist attack in Boulder, Colorado (West) had highlighted the extreme dangers that represent (United States) the entry of foreign citizens who have not been properly controlled.”
*: List of New Countries that Court Coast, Kirghizstan, Liberia, Liberia, Liberia Malawi, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Saint-Kitts-Et-Nevis, Sainte-Lucie, Sao Tomé-Et-Principe, Senegal, South Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Tonga, Tuvalu, Uganda, Vanuatu, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Source: BFM TV
