According to a diplomatic message 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 that within 60 days took corrective action.
The allegations concern, inter alia, insufficiently competent governments, mediocre passport security, deficiency of cooperation in facilitating the expulsion of its citizens from the United States, but besides fears that citizens on the fresh list of countries were active in terrorist acts in the United States or in anti-Semitic and anti-American activities.
Trump administration already banned entry into the United States on 4 June citizens of 12 countries, 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”.
Also on the extended 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.
