President Donald Trump announced a new travel ban on Wednesday, barring entry from 12 different countries and limiting entry from seven others. The move came just days after an Islamic terrorist seeking to “free Palestine” set several elderly Jewish women on fire in Colorado with Molotov cocktails. Mohamad Soliman had overstayed a tourist visa during the Biden years but was given work authorization in 2023, which ran out weeks before his attack.
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In a video released by the White House, Trump explained that the United States simply does not have the ability to properly vet people from some of the countries on the ban list, while others were included because they have “unacceptable” rates of visa overstays.
“We cannot have open migration from any country where we cannot safely and reliably vet and screen… That is why today I am signing a new executive order placing travel restrictions on countries including Yemen, Somalia, Haiti, Libya, and numerous others.” –President Trump pic.twitter.com/ER7nGM4TO2
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 4, 2025
Trump banned nationals from 12 countries from entering the United States: Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.
Several of the countries on the list, according to Trump’s proclamation, regularly declined to accept the return of their citizens or had visa overstay rates the administration deemed “unacceptable” and indicative of “a blatant disregard for United States immigration laws.”
Others on the list, like Sudan, Yemen and Somalia, were included for inadequate screening and vetting measures, the administration said.
An additional seven countries came under partial travel restrictions, in which entrance into the country under several visa programs was suspended but an outright ban was not implemented. Those countries are Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.
As you’d expect, the meltdown on the left began immediately. Accusations of racism and xenophobia are already flowing like milk and honey.
From his first Muslim Ban, Trump’s travel bans have always betrayed of the ideals and values that inspired America’s Founders.
Trump’s use of prejudice and bigotry to bar people from entering the U.S. does not make us safer, it just divides us and weakens our global leadership.
— Rep. Don Beyer (@RepDonBeyer) June 4, 2025
Ah, yes, America’s founders were big on the ideal of importing people from violent Islamic countries on visas. I’m not sure how this hurts our “global leadership” either. Is the argument that Afghanistan, Iran, and Libya won’t respect us anymore? Because I’ve got some news for Democrats if that’s the case.
I would further quibble with the idea that this doesn’t make it safer. It objectively makes America safer not to offer visas to countries that breed terrorists. That’s just common sense.
We’ve seen this horror show before.
It’s not about security. The travel ban is cruel, racist, and un-American. I wrote about it in Newsweek:
👉 https://t.co/gXctXDands https://t.co/B0tLXSdyTS pic.twitter.com/MCfLX2F1pL— Yassamin Ansari (@yassaminansari) June 5, 2025
To be clear, there’s nothing racist about this ban. For one, Muslim is not a race, and not all the countries listed are predominantly Muslim. Two, the countries on the list are home to several different races. Three, I don’t think I’m going to take my cues on what is un-American from a Democrat congresswoman who is more concerned about nations on the other side of the globe than her own.
This may be my favorite response, though.
If MAGA doesn’t believe this is a Muslim travel ban then explain this from the order itself. pic.twitter.com/gRWwjLtmET
— Vince Wilson (@VinceWilsonShow) June 5, 2025
You know, for all this concern about this being a “Muslim ban” (it’s not), maybe Islamic terrorists could try not doing so much terrorism. Is it Donald Trump’s fault that they represent such a threat to the safety of Americans? Should he let them in just so Muslim countries don’t feel singled out? That’s the argument? Really?
As has been explained many times, no one has a right to immigrate to the United States. If we can’t properly vet people from certain countries, then a ban is justified. With that said, we’ll see how long it takes before some random lower court judge strikes this down and sets off a lengthy legal fight.
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