- The main US officials due to sending the travel ban report.
- “Afghanistan, Pakistan marked for possible prohibitions.”
- Tens of thousands of Afghan could be affected.
Washington: A new trip prohibition by President Donald Trump could prohibit Pakistan and Afghanistan to enter the United States as soon as the next week based on a government review of the safety of countries and research risks, three sources familiar with the matter said.
The well -informed sources, which requested anonymity, said that other countries could also be on the list but did not know which ones.
The movement dates back to the prohibition of the first term of the Republican President to the travelers of seven majority Muslim nations, a policy that went through several iterations before the Supreme Court confirmed the Supreme Court in 2018.
Former President Joe Biden, a Democrat who happened to Trump, repealed the ban in 2021, describing it as “a stain in our national consciousness.”
The new prohibition could affect tens of thousands of Afghans who have been authorized for resettlement in the United States as refugees or in special immigrants visas because they run the risk of Taliban remuneration for working for the United States during a 20 -year war in their country of origin.
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.
That order ordered several cabinet members to present before March 12 a list of countries of which trips must be partly or completely suspended because their “research and detection information is very poor.”
Afghanistan will be included in the recommended list of countries for a complete prohibition of travel, the three sources said and others that also asked not to be identified.
The three sources said that Pakistan would also be recommended for inclusion.
The State Departments, Justice and National Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, whose leaders supervise the initiative, did not immediately respond to comments requests.
A source pointed out that Afghas clear the resettlement in the United States as refugees or in special visas first experience an intense detection that makes them “more examined than any population” in the world.
The State Department office that supervises its resettlement is looking for an exemption for the holders of special immigrants visas of the prohibition of traveling, “but it is not supposed to be granted,” said the source.
To that office, the coordinator of Afghan relocation efforts, he has been told to develop a plan for April for closing, Reuters reported last month.
The Taliban, who seized Kabul when the last US troops retired in August 2021 after two decades of war, face an insurgency of the Daesh regional branch. Pakistan is also dealing with violent militants.
Trump’s directive is part of an immigration repression that he launched at the beginning of his second term.
Visit your plan in an October 2023 speech, committing to restricting people from several countries in the Middle East and African and “anywhere else that threatens our security.”
Shawn Vandiver, the head of #Afghanevac, a coalition of groups that coordinates the evacuation and resettlement of Afghans with the United States government, urged those who have valid visas to travel as soon as possible if they can.
“While no official announcement has been made, multiple sources within the United States government suggest that a new travel restriction could be implemented within next week,” he said in a statement.
This “can significantly affect the headlines of the Afghan Visa who have been waiting for the relocation” to the United States, he said.
There are about 200,000 Afghans that have been approved for the resettlement of the United States or have special visa applications for refugees and immigrants from the United States.
They have been stranded in Afghanistan almost another 90 countries, including about 20,000 in Pakistan, since January 20, when Trump ordered a 90 -day freezing about refugee admissions and foreign aid that finances his flights.
