The citizens of the next 12 countries will be blocked from entering the United States in Afghanistan, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Myanmar, the Republic of the Congo, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.
Additionally, citizens of the other seven countries will be banned from entering the United States permanently or under several visa programs in Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.
The executive order will come into effect at 12:01am ET.
Speaking to reporters at the White House along with German Prime Minister Friedrich Merz on Thursday, he said Trump had implemented a new ban because he “cannot come soon.”
“Frankly, we want to keep the bad people away from our country,” he said.
President Joe Biden overturned a similar policy in Trump's first term, banning foreigners from the majority of six Muslim countries from entering the country.
On the campaign trail, Trump has promised to revive the ban.
In a video posted to YouTube on Wednesday, Trump cited the attack in Boulder, Colorado, as justification for updating the ban.
Are there any exceptions?
yes. The ban will not affect citizens who are already legal permanent residents of the United States. In other words, the declaration does not apply to citizens of a banned country list who have a green card or live in the United States with a visa.
It also does not affect citizens of the prohibited country who have citizenship in the second country and enter the United States with passports from unlimited countries.
Other exemptions include Afghans who supported the US government during the war in Afghanistan, ethnic and religious minorities facing persecution in Iran, athletes from prohibited countries who have entered the US for the World Cup or the Olympics and children who have been adopted.
