By Thomas Stevenson | The Post Millennial
President Donald Trump is set to implement a new travel ban that would bar individuals from Afghanistan and Pakistan from entering the United States, according to a new report from Reuters. This comes after Trump drafted an executive order that directed cabinet members to recommend a list of countries for bans where their “vetting and screening information is so deficient.”
The ban would add to a list of “red” countries whose people are barred from coming to the US. The list of countries that Trump had on the list when he implemented a travel ban in his first term included Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela, and Yemen. Afghanistan would then be added to the list as a result of a draft proposal, according to the New York Times. Pakistan is also being recommended for the list, Reuters reported.
The measure is part of an effort to further vet those that are coming into the United States as the Trump administration is heavily focused on national security threats from other countries, including with illegal immigration.