US President Donald Trump has announced a travel ban on 12 countries.
Citizens from Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen are barred from travelling to the US for any purpose. The ban goes into effect on 9 June.
There will be some exemptions – such as for people with dual nationality or athletes travelling for events.
Trump also said people from Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela will be subject to partial bans.
“We don’t want them,” Trump was quoted as saying.
The ban comes after an attack by an Egyptian national on a number of Jewish people in Boulder, Colorado. However, Egypt was not one of the affected countries.
[Image: By Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America – Donald Trump, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=149365824]