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Biden Revokes Trump’s "Discriminatory" Travel Ban (afar.com)
President Joe Biden didn’t waste any time dismantling several of former President Donald Trump’s executive actions, including a controversial travel ban: Among the 17 executive orders Biden signed on January 20, just hours after his inauguration, was a proclamation rescinding the travel ban, which barred nationals from 13 countries, many of them with a Muslim majority.
The initial ban was first introduced by Trump in a January 2017 executive order. The order, entitled Protecting The Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into The United States, was narrowly upheld by the Supreme Court in a 2018 ruling. The ban restricted nationals from five Muslim-majority countries—Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen—as well as North Korean and Venezuelan nationals, from traveling to the United States, with some exceptions. In January 2020, Burma, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Sudan were added to the list, each with a unique set of rules and exceptions.
President Joe Biden didn’t waste any time dismantling several of former President Donald Trump’s executive actions, including a controversial travel ban: Among the 17 executive orders Biden signed on January 20, just hours after his inauguration, was a proclamation rescinding the travel ban, which barred nationals from 13 countries, many of them with a Muslim majority.
The initial ban was first introduced by Trump in a January 2017 executive order. The order, entitled Protecting The Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into The United States, was narrowly upheld by the Supreme Court in a 2018 ruling. The ban restricted nationals from five Muslim-majority countries—Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen—as well as North Korean and Venezuelan nationals, from traveling to the United States, with some exceptions. In January 2020, Burma, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Sudan were added to the list, each with a unique set of rules and exceptions.