This BS again? Trump bans 12 countries, but white South Africans welcome
President Donald Trump has revived his abhorrent and racist travel ban from his first disastrous term in office, this time banning travel from 12 majority-minority countries in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.
Starting on Monday, people from Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen will be banned from traveling to the United States. Trump also partially limited travel to the United States for people from Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela, saying people from those countries cannot get tourist or student visas.
Current visa holders, legal permanent residents, and athletes traveling to the United States for sporting events are exempt from the ban. That athlete restriction was necessary as the United States is hosting the World Cup next year—though we imagine people from those countries may have reservations about traveling to a country where masked immigration cops have been arresting and detaining people even when they are citizens or have the legal right to be here.
Trump, for his part, said the ban was necessary after a terror attack in Colorado over the weekend, when protestors demanding the return of Israeli hostages from Gaza were firebombed by an Egyptian national.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/6/5/2326126/-This-BS-again-Trump-bans-12-countries-but-white-South-Africans-welcome
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