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Trump slaps travel restrictions on North Korea, Venezuela in sweeping new ban

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Saya

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Sunday slapped new travel restrictions on citizens from North Korea, Venezuela and Chad, expanding to eight the list of countries covered by his original travel bans that have been derided by critics and challenged in court.

Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen and Somalia were left on the list of affected countries in a new proclamation issued by the president. Restrictions on citizens from Sudan were lifted.

The measures help fulfill a campaign promise Trump made to tighten U.S. immigration procedures and align with his “America First” foreign policy vision. Unlike the president’s original bans, which had time limits, this one is open-ended.

“Making America Safe is my number one priority. We will not admit those into our country we cannot safely vet,” the president said in a tweet shortly after the proclamation was released.

Iraqi citizens will not be subject to travel prohibitions but will face enhanced scrutiny or vetting.

The current ban, enacted in March, was set to expire on Sunday evening. The new restrictions are slated to take effect on Oct. 18 and resulted from a review after Trump’s original travel bans sparked international outrage and legal challenges.

The addition of North Korea and Venezuela broadens the restrictions from the original, mostly Muslim-majority list.

An administration official, briefing reporters on a conference call, acknowledged that the number of North Koreans now traveling to the United States was very low.

Rights group Amnesty International USA condemned the measures.

“Just because the original ban was especially outrageous does not mean we should stand for yet another version of government-sanctioned discrimination,” it said in a statement.
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Frozenprince

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LOL he watches fucking Football all fucking day and bitches in twitter then slaps a ban on people trying to escape a fucking crumbling country and a travel ban on a country that literally already has a ban in place on traveling abroad at 2 in the fucking morning.

What the ever loving hell you insane orange fucking piece of human refuse.

How does he have any supporters left?
 
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Azuran

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Christ, it says a lot about Trump when countries like Venezuela are on this list yet Turkey and Saudi Arabia are nowhere to be seen.

It's a little consistency so hard for this orange motherfucker? Either go all in or fuck off with your arbitrary made up rules.
 
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Kaban

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NK would have made sense had it been implemented from the beginning, but it took him having a dick-measuring contest with Kim Jong-Un to enact it.

Putting Venezuela in makes no sense though. Aren’t people trying to escape from there?
 
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civilstrife

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So he's closing the door to people attempting to escape oppressive regimes? Who the fuck else is coming from North Korea and Venezuela?

What is he hoping to accomplish with this?
 
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Amalthea

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Making America "safer".
Meanwhile thousands of US citizens die from gun violence and opioid abuse and lack of health care.
 
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Frozenprince

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kswiston said:
Chad is basically a dictatorship, and has a lot of problems with ethnic violence, but that hasn't been applied to plenty of other countries in a similar state. So who knows.
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No I get the nation itself is a hotbed of violence, but whens the last time a Chad terror group or even individual terrorist was even a threat to the US or a NATO country? As far as I know, the violence is almost entirely contained to the region itself.

Unless Boko Haram is now planning to bomb the US because... reasons?
 
WaterAstro

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More people come to America from Antarctica than North Korea.

And when I say people, I mean penguins... illegal penguins. ಠ_ಠ
 
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Lautaro

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The restrictions on Venezuela focused on Socialist government officials that the Trump administration blamed for the country’s slide into economic disarray, including officials from the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service and their immediate families.
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So its only officials? I guess some sort of Magnitsky-like Act against govt. officials could help but this seems pretty rushed especially against N. Korea.
 
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Electric Eye

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hEist said:
@MaggieNYT
White House believes new countries let officials say this is not a Muslim ban https://twitter.com/ZoeTillman/status/912101848496123906

https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/912102039320252416
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Yeah, this went under the radar but its a plan to try to get around the courts calling this a muslim ban, in other words they are trying to dupe the courts because the rulling is due in October on the original ban. Its comical because they whaited literally untill the last minute to come up with this plpan.
 
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Frozenprince

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Electric Eye said:
Yeah, this went under the radar but its a plan to try to get around the courts calling this a muslim ban, in other words they are trying to dupe the courts because the rulling is due in October on the original ban. Its comical because they whaited literally untill the last minute to come up with this plpan.
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And there isn't a judge in the country stupid enough to be blind enough to this obvious sleight of hand.
 
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Diancecht

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Azuran said:
Christ, it says a lot about Trump when countries like Venezuela are on this list yet Turkey and Saudi Arabia are nowhere to be seen.

It's a little consistency so hard for this orange motherfucker? Either go all in or fuck off with your arbitrary made up rules.
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What do you want from Turkey?
 
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greatgeek

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Frozenprince said:
And there isn't a judge in the country stupid enough to be blind enough to this obvious sleight of hand.
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Right. The only thing that could probably "rehabilitate" the existing policy is if the Administration was able to point to some concrete, neutral concern that would justify it.
 
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Xe4

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What a fucking asshole. The people of Venezuela need our help now more then ever and were keeping them from entering the country. Fuck off.

And that's on top of the already disgusting ban on other countries.
 
linko9

linko9

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The fuck did Chad ever do to you? Their army is maybe the largest military force combating extremism on the continent.
 
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Every word that escapes Trump’s mouth reminds me of the little farts that escape your asshole moments before it expands to release your turds into the toilet.
 
UberTag

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Kaban said:
Putting Venezuela in makes no sense though. Aren't people trying to escape from there?
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I believe that's the point. He's pretty much made it clear that refugees fleeing war-torn nations are NOT welcome in the United States. As far as he's concerned, they can fuck right off and die.

Sunster said:
I thought America's stance was to give people fleeing socialist regimes amnesty.
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That was the old, not-so-great USA. 2017 America plays by different rules.
 
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Frozenprince

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His travel bans remind me how since we were in perpetual war with Soviet Bloc states we accepted no people from those countries at all what so ever.

Waaaaaaaaaaait a minute.
 
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