5 charts that present how many individuals President Trump’s journey ban will have an effect on
President Donald Trump’s proclamation Wednesday proscribing entry into the USA for nationals from a patchwork of 19 nations revives certainly one of his most controversial insurance policies from his first time period and targets lots of the identical nations.
Starting Monday, the directive bans entry for nationals from 12 nations: Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. It additionally institutes partial bans and visa restrictions for Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.
Trump instituted comparable journey restrictions throughout his first time period and even focused a number of of the identical nations, together with Iran, Libya and Venezuela.
About 139,000 visas have been issued for guests from the 19 nations through the 2023 fiscal yr, information from the State Division reveals. Guests from Venezuela acquired probably the most visas.
Throughout the entire nations, tourism and enterprise visas have been issued mostly.
Trump’s proclamation cited safety and terrorism dangers as the explanation behind a few of the restrictions, and it particularly accused guests from a number of of the nations of staying previous their visas’ expiration dates. However information from the Division of Homeland Safety reveals that whereas a number of of the nations had excessive overstay charges through the 2023 fiscal yr, the precise numbers of individuals have been low.
Eritrea, as an illustration, had the second-highest overstay charge, however the complete was simply over 200, a small fraction of the variety of overstayers from Mexico, India or Brazil.