- “There is no [travel ban] List, “says State Department Spox Tammy Bruce.
- The administration says that it seeks to keep us safe with respect to the issuance of visas.
- The reports suggest that Washington has prepared a draft of the list of 41 countries.
Washington: In the midst of very publicized speculation about possible travel restrictions by the administration of President Donald Trump, the United States Department of State has ruled out the existence of any travel prohibition list.
“There is no list. What people are seeing during these last days is not a list that exists here in which the State Department spokesman Tammy Bruce, during a media conference while answering a question related to the state of Afghanistan in the alleged list of trip prohibition.
The spokesperson’s refutation occurs days after a draft of the list that supplied the names of 41 countries, including Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iranm and others, divided into three separate groups that would be subject to various degrees of travel restrictions.
On the list, according to the memo seen by ReutersPakistan was included in a group that would be considered for a partial suspension of visa issuance if their governments “do not make efforts to address deficiencies within 60 days.”
The first group of 10 countries, including Afghanistan, Iran, Syria, Cuba and North Korea, among others, would be established for a complete visa suspension.
In the second group, five countries, Eritrea, Haiti, Laos, Myanmar and Sudan del Sur, would face partial suspensions that would affect the visas of tourists and students, as well as other immigrants visas, with some exceptions.
In the third group, a total of 26 countries, including Belarus, Pakistan and Turkmenistan, among others, a partial suspension of the issuance of visas from the United States would be considered if their governments did not address relevant deficiencies within 60 days.
An American official who speaks under the condition of anonymity warned that there could be changes in the list and that the administration has not yet approved, including the Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio.
The measure reflects the prohibition during Trump’s first term in the travelers of seven majority Muslim nations, a policy that went through several iterations before the Supreme Court confirmed in 2018.
Trump issued an executive order on January 20, which required an intensified security investigation of any foreigner seeking the admission to the US. UU. To detect national security threats.
By expanding the reports of the alleged list of travel restrictions, the state department official Bruce said that there was a review, through the executive order of President Trump, so that the administration “analyzes the nature of what will help keep the United States safer when dealing with the issue of visas and who has allowed entering the country.”
“But what has been promoted as something that is an element through the State Department simply is not the case,” he said even more.
