Around 30 nations will be part of Donald Trump’s travel ban on ‘Third World Countries’ | World News
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after speaking to troops via video from his Mar-a-Lago estate on Thanksgiving, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Around 30 countries will be included in the new travel ban announced the Donald Trump adminration in the wake of the Washington DC shooting last week that left one National Guard personnel dead and another seriously injured.
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NBC News, citing sources familiar with the travel ban floated Homeland Security Secretary Kri Noem, reported that the l could expand, and it is not yet clear which countries are on the l.
“We will be announcing the l soon,” a spokesperson for DHS was quoted as saying NBC News.
On Monday, Noem said in a post to X last night that she was “recommending a full travel ban on every d— country that’s been flooding our nation with killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies.”
Trump restricts travel to US
The Trump adminration announced several restrictions, including, travel ban, a pause on asylum decisions, re-examining green card applications for people from countries “of concern,” and halting visas for Afghans who assed the US war effort, after the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington an Afghan national.Story continues below this ad
A makeshift memorial of flags, flowers and other items is seen outside of Farragut West Station, near the site where two National Guard members were shot in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
The shooter is Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a 29-year-old Afghan national, who entered the United States in 2021 as part of Operation Allies Welcome, the federal relocation programme launched after the US withdrawal from Afghanan and was granted asylum earlier this year.
According to The Associated Press, even before the shooting of two National Guard members, the Trump adminration was planning a sweeping review of tens of thousands of immigrants who entered the US during the Biden adminration as part of the US Refugee Assance Program.
That program, first launched in 1980, oversees the process which people fleeing persecution can come to the US Refugees are dinct from people seeking asylum, although they meet the same criteria.
US President Donald Trump speaks to troops via video from his Mar-a-Lago estate on Thanksgiving. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
This is not the first time Trump has instituted a travel ban. During his first term in office, Trump banned people from seven Muslim majority countries from entering the US.
