The Trump administration announced new restrictions Sunday on visitors from eight countries – an expansion of the pre-existing travel ban that has spurred fierce legal debates over security, immigration and discrimination. The new travel restrictions represent the third version offered by the Trump administration. One country, Sudan, fell off the travel ban list issued at the beginning of the year. Many countries, officials said, already met U.S. requests – using secure biometric passports, for example, and willingly passing along terrorism and criminal-history information. Citing an attack in London earlier this month, Trump seemed to call for an expansion of the travel ban, writing on Twitter, “The travel ban into the United States should be far larger, tougher and more specific-but stupidly, that would not be politically correct!”

Source: National Post September 25, 2017 00:00 UTC