Trump administration considers adding 36 countries to travel ban list

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: Washington Post, via MSN

The Washington Post

Trump administration considers adding 36 countries to travel ban list

Story by Adam Taylor • 6h

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Trump administration considers adding 36 countries to travel ban list
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The United States is considering restricting entry to citizens of an additional 36 countries in what would be a significant expansion of the travel ban announced by the Trump administration early this month, according to a State Department memo reviewed by The Washington Post.

Among the new list of countries that could face visa bans or other restrictions are 25 African nations, including significant U.S. partners such as Egypt and Djibouti, plus countries in the Caribbean, Central Asia and several Pacific Island nations.

A State Department spokesperson said the agency would not comment on internal deliberations or communications. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Such a move would mark another escalation in the Trump administration’s aggressive crackdown on immigration.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-administration-considers-adding-36-countries-to-travel-ban-list/ar-AA1GIHjH

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Maybe if he goes back far enough he can reverse Ellis Island

and even Castle Garden. "Export your teeming masses, hungry, tired, poor, and weak ...."

[William Seger]

2. Meanwhile, Stephen Miller is trying the "self-banning" strategy

... trying to make the country such a shithole that people don't want to come here.

[hildegaard28]

3. Why not

Just ban travel from every country. No one wants to come here right now anyway. It's just getting ridiculous. Caribbean countries? Pacific Island countries?

[riversedge]

5. I went WTF when I saw those countries listed..

[WhiteTara]

4. Bhutan is on the list!!!

Is their happiness a threat to the U.S?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

7. It's their lighters. NT

[WhiteTara]

8. What?

[DBoon]

12. Bhutan equals butane?

[skamaria]

17. butane lighters! In Trump speak!

[hatrack]

10. Bwa-hahhahhah!!!

[Canada Kid]

6. What a great idea!!!

Hey Canada!! Let's travel ban his sorry ass from entering the country..that way we can deport him to Greenland if he enters. They would have a real good time with him there!!

[ananda]

9. Do Trump and Miller consider Asians non-white?

Or will accepted people have to look like blond
Aryan Barbies and Kens?

If so, this will make it necessary to kill off a
lot of our non-white people, and then allow for
an influx of only acceptable white people.

So then it would be all luxury ranches, country
clubs, model white cities?

What will all this look like exactly?

[LudwigPastorius]

11. The whole world knows what this is about.

Herr Drumpf isn't fooling anyone by making the ban about certain countries.

[BidenRocks]

13. Impeach!

[angrychair]

14. The World Cup is coming here

In almost exactly a year from today. Such a travel ban would make the world Cup here all but impossible.

[patphil]

15. White Christian nations don't seem to be on the list. I wonder why?

[wolfie001]

16. Get in line and pay the Dear Fat Leader his bitcoin bribe

At least $10/$20 million per country.

[purr-rat beauty]

18. Time for the IOC and FIFA to consider another country

It's not going to be easy having world class athletes and their fans feel welcome or safe in a country trying to keep them out.