Trump wants to ban Nigerians from entering the United States through visa restrictions; and he could make the announcement next week.
United States President, Donald Trump, intends to add Nigeria to a list of countries for visa restrictions.
Seven countries are on President Trump’s travel ban list, according to US media and agency reports.
The countries are – Belarus, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania.
Some countries will face bans only on some visa categories, the Wall Street Journal reports. The list of countries was not final and could yet change, Politico reports.
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal from Davos, Switzerland, President Trump said he was trying to add additional nations to the travel ban list, but declined to list the countries.
White House spokesman Hogan Gidley defended the impending order in a statement.
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“The travel ban has been profoundly successful in protecting our country and raising the security baseline around the world.
“While there are no new announcements at this time, commonsense and national security both dictate that if a country wants to fully participate in US immigration programmes, they should also comply with all security and counter-terrorism measures — because we do not want to import terrorism or any other national security threat into the United States.”
Politico adds in its report that the America president could make the announcement of countries on the travel ban list as early as Monday.
On January 27, 2017, barely a week into his tenure, President Trump signed the original travel ban order which initially denied visas to citizens of seven majority-Muslim countries. This list was later modified after a series of legal challenges.
The Supreme Court eventually allowed a third iteration of the order to go into effect. This iteration restricts entry of some citizens from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen, along with Venezuela and North Korea. Chad was removed from the original list.
