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Trump Looks to Quadruple Nations Under Travel Ban

Administration tells 36 countries to meet new requirements—or else

(Newser) - The Trump administration is considering adding another 36 countries to the new travel ban , a potential move that would quadruple the number of countries initially named. An internal State Department memo reviewed by the Washington Post and Reuters shows 36 countries have been given a 60-day deadline to conform with...

Trump's New Travel Ban Is Now in Effect

Visa applications from affected countries will now be rejected, with narrow exceptions

(Newser) - President Trump's new ban on travel to the US by citizens from 12 mainly African and Middle Eastern countries took effect on Monday, the AP reports. The new proclamation, which Trump signed on Wednesday, also imposes new travel restrictions on people from seven additional countries who are outside the...

Trump's Travel Ban Draws Anger, Resignation

Chad regrets not being able to afford expensive gifts

(Newser) - Citizens and governments of the nations named in President Trump's travel ban announcement responded on Thursday with anger, hurt, and a bit of sarcasm. "Chad has no planes to offer, no billions of dollars to give but Chad has its dignity and pride," President Idriss Deby wrote...

List of Banned Nations Has a Notable Absence

It's a sign of how fast relations have improved between Syria and the US

(Newser) - One striking aspect of the list of countries hit with a total or partial travel ban to the US is one that isn't there: Syria. In President Trump's first term, it was on the original list of seven nations banned, notes NPR . This time, it didn't make...

World Cup, Olympic Athletes Are Exempt From Travel Ban

Other exemptions include Afghans who helped the US

(Newser) - The new travel ban announced by President Trump affects 19 nations, but also includes some notable exceptions, including:
  • Afghans who helped the American government during its long mission in the country, reports the New York Times .
  • Athletes coming to the US to play in the soccer World Cup in 2026
...

New Travel Ban More Likely to Survive Legal Challenges
New Travel Ban
May Be on
Firmer
Legal Ground
the rundown
Jun 5, 2025 8:01 AM CDT

New Travel Ban May Be on Firmer Legal Ground

Supreme Court's 2018 ruling in favor of the first one is a factor

(Newser) - When President Trump put a travel ban into place early in his first term, it ran into immediate legal trouble and got blocked by federal judges. The new ban he announced Wednesday appears more likely to stand up to the legal challenges certain to come, reports the New York Times ...

Trump Institutes New Travel Bans
Trump Institutes
New Travel Bans
Jun 4, 2025 9:44 PM CDT

Trump Institutes New Travel Bans

Nationals from 12 countries will be banned outright, another 7 face partial bans

(Newser) - President Trump on Wednesday announced travel bans barring nationals from 12 countries from entering the United States. Another seven countries were also placed under travel restrictions, though not outright bans, NBC News reports. The restrictions, which hearken back to travel bans on Muslim-majority countries Trump instituted during his first term,...

House Answers Trump's Travel Ban With Bill

Biden administration backs curbs on presidential power

(Newser) - The Democratic-led House passed legislation Wednesday designed to constrain a president's power to limit entry to the US, a response to former President Trump's travel ban covering five Muslim-majority countries. President Biden reversed the travel restrictions in one of his first moves in office, easing limits on Iran,...

The White House Bans Travel From Yet Another Country

Latin America's hardest-hit country makes the list

(Newser) - The White House on Sunday broadened its travel ban against countries hard-hit by the coronavirus by denying admission to foreigners who have been in Brazil during the two-week period before they hoped to enter the US, the AP reports. President Trump had already banned travel from the United Kingdom, Europe,...

Trump Issues New Travel Ban
Trump Issues
New Travel Ban
Feb 1, 2020 10:00 AM CST

Trump Issues New Travel Ban

But critics decry the move as racist or nakedly political

(Newser) - President Trump has expanded his 2017 travel ban to include six more countries with sizeable Muslim populations, USA Today reports. Announced Friday, the new plan will block overseas visas for nationals of Nigeria, Myanmar, Kyrgyzstan, and Eritrea, and keep people from Tanzania and Sudan from entering America via the diversity...

White House Works on Broader Travel Ban

Seven countries, most of them Muslim, could be added

(Newser) - The White House is considering dramatically expanding its much-litigated travel ban to additional countries amid a renewed election-year focus on immigration by President Trump, according to six people familiar with the deliberations. A document outlining the plans — timed to coincide with the third anniversary of Trump's January 2017...

His Mom Fought Trump's Travel Ban. Now He's Gone

Abdullah Hassan died at the age of 2

(Newser) - Mourners at a mosque in California said goodbye Saturday to a 2-year-old boy whose Yemeni mother successfully fought the Trump administration's travel ban to hold the dying boy again in the United States, the AP reports. Abdullah Hassan died Friday at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital in Oakland, where...

Sotomayor Calls Out Trump's 'Unrelenting Attack' on Muslims

Travel ban dissent is scathing, but president hails vindication against 'hysterical' critics

(Newser) - The travel ban stands . So ruled the Supreme Court on Tuesday in a ruling that President Trump was quick to celebrate, reports NBC News . In a statement, he said the decision reaffirms his authority to act in the name of national security, adding that it "is also a moment...

Supreme Court Delivers Big Win to Trump

Justices uphold his travel ban

(Newser) - The Supreme Court has just delivered a major victory to President Trump by upholding his travel ban, reports Politico . The justices split 5-4 along the usual lines, with the conservative majority winning the day. The court actually upheld the president's third version of his ban, this one issued last...

On Day 1 of Travel Ban Case at SCOTUS, Things Look Good for Trump

Roberts, Kennedy signal support for the policy

(Newser) - President Donald Trump appears likely to win his travel ban case at the Supreme Court, the AP reports. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Anthony Kennedy both signaled support for the travel policy in arguments Wednesday at the high court. The ban's challengers almost certainly need one of those...

Supreme Court to Decide on Trump's Travel Ban

Justices will hear arguments in April

(Newser) - The Supreme Court has agreed to decide the legality of the latest version of President Trump's ban on travel to the United States by residents of six majority-Muslim countries. The justices plan to hear arguments in April and issue a final ruling by late June, per the AP . The...

Judge Lifts Trump Ban on Refugees From 11 Countries

He orders government to process applications for those with family in US

(Newser) - A federal judge in Seattle on Saturday partially lifted a Trump administration ban on certain refugees after two groups argued that the policy prevented people from some mostly Muslim countries from reuniting with family living legally in the United States, the AP reports. US District Judge James Robart heard arguments...

Supreme Court Allows Full Travel Ban

The president can implement his full ban on travelers from eight countries while legal challenges move forward

(Newser) - The Supreme Court handed Donald Trump a victory today, allowing his administration to enforce its full travel ban while challenges to the law work their way through lower courts. The Court's decision reverses the earlier rulings of two federal judges, both of whom determined the administration could only block...

Things Just Got Tougher for Refugees From 11 Unnamed Countries

Trump on Tuesday allowed the resumption of refugee admissions into the US

(Newser) - President Trump on Tuesday allowed the resumption of refugee admissions into the US under new, stricter screening rules but ordered nationals from 11 countries believed to pose higher risk to US national security to face even tougher scrutiny. Officials refused to identify the 11 countries, but said refugee applications from...

Chad's Inclusion in Travel Ban Blamed on Office Supplies

Passport paper, specifically

(Newser) - When President Trump added Chad last month to his most recent installment of travel restrictions, everyone from the Pentagon to Chad's leaders to the French government was perplexed. The US has praised Chad's cooperation on counterterrorism, especially its campaign against a vicious Boko Haram insurgency spilling over from...

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