President’s proclamation may throw major hurdle in front of ongoing court challenges to ban which blocked travel from six majority-Muslim countriesDonald Trump has announced new travel restrictions on visitors to the United States that will expand his controversial travel ban to eight countries. The new proclamation, which will come into effect on 18 October, will continue to target travellers from Somalia, Yemen, Syria, Libya and Iran, but also adds North Korea, Chad and Venezuela to the list of targeted countries. Nonetheless, advocates seized on Trump’s evening announcement to call for continued legal opposition to the travel ban. “This ban must not stand in any form.”The administration claimed the order was a more targeted policy than previous iterations. As a result, the administration claimed, these states were handed tailored travel restrictions.

Source: The Guardian September 25, 2017 00:37 UTC