As part of a significant expansion of its travel ban policy, the Trump administration is apparently exploring additional visa restrictions that would target 36 countries, including Ghana and 24 other African countries, according to a leaked State Department letter that The Washington Post examined.
The State Department would not comment on internal discussions or communications, according to a spokesperson. When asked for comment, the White House did not immediately reply.
The Trump administration’s vigorous assault on immigration would continue with this action.
The memo, signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and distributed to U.S. diplomats working with the countries on Saturday, stated that the State Department was giving the governments of the countries on the list 60 days to satisfy new standards and regulations.
It gave them till Wednesday at 8 a.m. to submit a preliminary action plan for fulfilling the requirements.
The administration believed that these nations were not meeting a number of goals that were listed in the document.
Some nations suffered from “widespread government fraud” or “no competent or cooperative central government authority to produce reliable identity documents or other civil documents.”
According to the document, many people of other countries overstayed their visas in the US.
The availability of citizenship through financial investment without requiring residency and allegations of “antisemitic and anti-American activity in the United States” by citizens of foreign nations were further factors.
According to the document, such worries may be allayed if a nation agreed to enter a “safe third country” pact or accept third-country nationals who had been deported from the US.
If the requests were not fulfilled, it was not immediately apparent when the suggested travel restrictions would go into effect.
Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Dominica, Ethiopia, Egypt, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Malawi, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, South Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Tonga, Tuvalu, Uganda, Vanuatu, Zambia, and Zimbabwe are among the nations under investigation in the memo.
Source: newsthemegh.com