Donald Trump's administration wants to extend the US entry ban to another 36 countries. "Washington Post" reveals the scenes of a paper signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio. In the background: diplomatic tensions and allegations of discrimination.
President Trump's administration is considering adding 36 more countries to its list of countries banned from travelling to the United States, due to interior correspondence from the U.S. State Department, which he referred to on Sunday "Washington Post".
According to a diplomatic dispatch signed by the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, his department described respective weak points concerning these countries from the US safety point of view and demanded them to take corrective action within 60 days. The allegations concern, inter alia, the deficiency of insufficiently competent governments, mediocre passport security, the deficiency of cooperation in facilitating the expulsion of its citizens from the United States, but besides concerns that citizens included on the fresh list of countries were active in terrorist acts in the United States or in anti-Semitic and anti-American activities.
The Trump administration has already banned 12 countries from entering the United States on 4 June, most of which are in Africa. At that time, the White home included this ban on Afghan citizens, Myanmar, Chad, Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. It was explained that this was essential to defend the United States from “foreign terrorists”.
On the expanded list, most are African countries. It featured Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Dominica, Ethiopia, Egypt, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Malawi, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Thomas and Prince Islands, Senegal, South Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Tonga, Tuvalu, Uganda, Vanuatu, Zambia and Zimbabwe. (PAP)
