United States President, Donald Trump has said his administration was preparing to add a “couple of countries” to the controversial list of states whose citizens are subject to travel bans or severe restrictions on entry into the United States.
The president who revealed this at the World Economic Forum in Davos, added that;
We are adding a couple of countries to it. We have to be safe. Our country has to be safe and the names of the new countries would be announced, very shortly.
It would be recalled that Wall Street Journal (WSJ) had earlier reported that the Donald trump administration planned to add seven countries including Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, and others in Africa and Asia.
It said the other nations being considered for new rules were Belarus, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Sudan and Tanzania.
The journal quoting the administration officials has said these countries would not necessarily face blanket bans on US travel but some certain types of visas could be curtailed.
According to Wall Street Journal;
some countries could be banned from participating in the diversity visa lottery program, which awards green cards to people in countries with low levels of immigration to the U.S.
President Trump has called for an end to that program, saying it lets undesirable people into the U.S., and he has proposed reorienting the existing visa system toward skilled workers instead.
Unlike the nations covered by the current ban, most of these new additions do not have Muslim-majority populations.
The list isn’t final as the White House was still debating whether to include one or two of the countries.
