Thursday, June 05, 2025

Trump Travel Bans Back

Trump signs ban on travel to US from 12 countries: Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen. There are an additional seven countries whose nationals face partial travel restrictions: Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela. The White House says these "common sense restrictions" will "protect Americans from dangerous foreign actors"

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President Trump announced restrictions on individuals coming to the United States from more than a dozen countries on Wednesday, broadening a policy from his first term and amplifying the administration's stringent approach to immigration.[image or embed]

" The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com) June 5, 2025 at 7:34 AM

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"hostile attitudes" toward the U.S."

Next up, hostile attitudes towards Trump also requires deporting US Citizens by the TACO Gestapo.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-06-04 08:57 PM

Thread Already Up:

drudge.com

by the inestimable Redial

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2025-06-04 08:59 PM

TACO Gestapo. Nice.

#3 | Posted by jpw at 2025-06-04 09:14 PM

... and the rationale behind this ban is ...?


#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-06-04 09:35 PM

From the cited article ...

... Many Cuban-Americans in Florida voted for Trump. This news will cause mixed feelings ...

Seeing the travel ban extended to Cuba will cause both celebration and consternation in Florida.

Many conservative Cuban-American voters gave Donald Trump their vote in November and carried the state for him easily in the election. They have long advocated for harsh sanctions against the island's government and its leadership.

For its part, the Cuban government staunchly disputes its classification as a "state sponsor of terrorism" - the reason cited by the White House for the island's inclusion in the ban. It says the entire premise is unjust and intended to further harm its economic interests by forcing its isolation from the international banking system.

However, the idea that ordinary Cubans applying to reach the US through family reunification, or under other visas and legal pathways, might be prevented from doing so by this decision may stick in the craw of many Cuban-Americans, even in Miami -- the home of anti-Cuban Government sentiment.

There is already a growing resentment among some in Florida at seeing the Trump administration deport Cubans back to Cuba. They have always enjoyed a privileged migration status in the US, stretching back to the Kennedy administration. ...




#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-06-04 09:37 PM

From the cited article, there is also this ...

Trump issues travel ban specifically targeting Harvard

... Along with the travel restrictions on 19 countries that Trump announced tonight, he has also signed an order to restrict foreign student visas at Harvard, his latest attack in an escalating row with America's oldest university.

"President Trump wants our institutions to have foreign students, but believes that the foreign students should be people that can love our country," the White House said in a fact sheet.

The fact sheet alleged Harvard was the top overseas academic institution for Chinese Communist Party officials, noting that President Xi Jinping's own daughter had studied there in the 2010s.

The Trump administration last month tried to revoke Harvard's certification to enrol foreign students on campus under the Student and Exchange Visitor Programme (SEVP).

But a federal judge blocked that order and the Trump administration said it would give Harvard 30 days to prove it meets the requirements. ...


#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-06-04 09:39 PM

Tasty!

#7 | Posted by Corky at 2025-06-04 10:03 PM

Funny how Egypt, where the Boulder firebomb terrorist came from escaped the list.

Wouldn't have anything to do with el-Sisi being one of Putin's bff's. Nah, I'm just sure that is a coincidence.

"President Donald Trump has reinstated and expanded a travel ban targeting citizens from 12 countries, citing national security concerns following a recent terror attack in Boulder, Colorado. The National Iranian American Council (NIAC) told Newsweek the move would "not make America safer."

However, the country of origin of the attacker"Egypt"is notably absent from the list, raising questions about the ban's effectiveness and underlying motivations."

#8 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-06-05 08:03 AM

WASHINGTON: Donald J. Trump's sweeping travel ban has proven totally unnecessary as the rest of the world has shown no interest in visiting what it deems to be a -------- country, travel experts confirmed on Thursday.

"When people plan vacations, they usually avoid countries with soaring prices, random arrests on the street, and measles outbreaks," Harland Dorrinson, an international travel expert said.

Additionally, he said, "Travel-wise, people prefer destinations where food undergoes rigorous inspections and planes don't fall out of the sky."

Noting that travel to the US had plummeted since Trump became president, he added, "At this point North Koreans are staying away."

(The Borowitz Report)

#9 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-06-05 09:41 AM

I feel safer already with the Travel ban! Wonder what Trump will say when the banned nation set up reciprocal travel bans?

#10 | Posted by danni at 2025-06-05 11:50 AM

Is there a pandemic we haven't been told about? This might have been appropriate to try and slow that pandemic. But what is global the emergency we are trying to prevent now?

Is this so we don't get their colored ick on us?

these "common sense restrictions" will "protect Americans from dangerous foreign actors"

Oh I see. Trumpy is afraid of them! Trumpy is afraid of foreigners. What a flipping coward. And now he wants the rest of us to be afraid.

Be very very afraid of the Other!

That's how facism works best.

#11 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-06-05 12:03 PM

The Olympics in 2028 will just be fat white boys from Mississippi.

#12 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-06-05 12:09 PM

Trump's travel bans are back, but Trump being stupid and mean never left us.

We know the man well enough to do that this is the sort of dramatic rabbit he likes to pull out of a hat when he is desperate and losing.

Six months into his term and he has a failed presidency, one that is on the verge of failing more direly yet.

Trump has to think of himself as a big and powerful man, so he's found a new way to pick on people.

#13 | Posted by Zed at 2025-06-05 12:19 PM

"these "common sense restrictions" will "protect Americans from dangerous foreign actors" "

When are we getting the common sense restriction to protect Americans from dangerous citizens?

Waiting for the other shoe to drop.

#14 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-06-05 12:21 PM

Snoofy, you are an idiot.

So it's ok in Snoofy's world for us to be invaded by people who hate us, but love to take advantage of us.

You are an idiot, Snoofy.

#15 | Posted by boaz at 2025-06-05 01:21 PM

Feels so good to finally have someone in office who is doing something. Something that sounds and feels right.

For a majority of the nation, Trump is doing a great job.

#16 | Posted by boaz at 2025-06-05 01:22 PM

"Invaded."

You're an actual soldier.

And you call immigration an invasion.

You're a basket case, son.

#17 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-06-05 01:23 PM

"For a majority of the nation, Trump is doing a great job."

How does banning travel from the --------- countries you were imported from improve the majority of the nation?

What if those people are doing jobs and stuff?

#18 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-06-05 01:24 PM

Feels so good to finally have someone in office who is doing something. Something that sounds and feels right.
For a majority of the nation, Trump is doing a great job.

Posted by boaz at 2025-06-05 01:22 PM | Reply

Only 22% of the nation voted for Trump. Not even a quarter of the population. Please do try again.

#19 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-06-05 01:30 PM

"Feels so good to finally have someone in office who is doing something."

Oh?

Why are we Victims of the people from Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen.

Thanks!

#20 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-06-05 01:37 PM

Trump is the definition of a fascist, Boaz. And you support him.

#21 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-06-05 01:43 PM

Something that sounds and feels right.

That's pretty much Lewzer in a nutshell.

#22 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-06-05 01:53 PM

The president's responsibility is to protect the citizens of the US, not the travel status of foreigners to this country.

#23 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-06-05 02:08 PM

The White House says these "common sense restrictions" will "protect Americans from dangerous foreign actors"

I'm less worried about "foreign actors" and more concerned about the homegrown deplorable Trumping MAGA domestic terrorists.

#24 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-06-05 02:46 PM

The president's responsibility is to protect the citizens of the US,
#23 | POSTED BY MSG

Except he failed miserably at protecting America from COVID.

1.2 Million Americans dead.

That's Trump's legacy.

#25 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-06-05 02:48 PM

Sounds like Trump is once again simply trying to distract our attention from other truly concerning issues. Such as his disastrous Big Beautiful Bill. Trump's playbook is growing old.

#26 | Posted by moder8 at 2025-06-05 03:00 PM

Interesting. I thought Syria and Lebanon were supposed to be on there as well as Gaza and the West Bank...

#27 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2025-06-05 03:07 PM

The president's responsibility is to protect the citizens of the US, not the travel status of foreigners to this country.

#23 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-06-05 02:08 PM | Reply | Flag: EYE ROLL

Unless it's from a former business associate's team of box cutters... or a pandemic.

The Iran-Contra debacle demonstrates how the clowns creative the cl0wns are with their wholesale slaughter for dollars mentality.

#28 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-06-05 03:10 PM

Why are Republicans not blaming Trump for lying to them about building a Wall that Mexico would pay for??

#29 | Posted by Corky at 2025-06-05 03:20 PM

The president's responsibility is to protect the citizens of the US, not the travel status of foreigners to this country.
#23 | Posted by MSgt

Trump Appoints 22-Year-Old Ex-Gardener and Grocery Store Assistant to Lead U.S. Terror Prevention

Thomas Fugate, who graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio just 12 months ago, is currently heading up the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships at the DHS, as first reported by ProPublica Tuesday.

But according to the youngster's LinkedIn page, Fugate has almost no experience in this field"and in 2020 was working as a self-employed 'Landscape Business Owner.'
There isn't much else on his resume to suggest Fugate has the requisite skills to weed out terrorists. Prior to his work as a gardener"while studying for a degree in politics and law"Fugate worked at an H-E-B supermarket in Austin, Texas, as a 'Cross Functional Team Member.'

www.thedailybeast.com

#30 | Posted by schifferbrains at 2025-06-05 03:38 PM

There is a bit of crossover on this list with "Conflict Minerals" nations in Central Africa.

I am surprised Trump hasn't removed the Conflict Minerals reporting requirements at the SEC.

That would be good for my 401(K).

"Mr. President, on your new travel ban, why now? And if the Boulder attack was part of your reasoning, why not include Egypt on that list where the suspect was from?"

#31 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-06-05 03:45 PM

#30 |

Wow! Was Major B one of his job references?

#32 | Posted by Corky at 2025-06-05 04:19 PM

NO FAIR...

we can always use some more bare chested members of the religion of peace TO SET JEWS ON FIRE !!
--and how can more jewish couples be EXTERMINATED if we ban those people from the democrat party ?

#33 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-06-05 06:41 PM

---- off, imbecile.

#34 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-06-05 09:36 PM

Republicl0wns really need to stop lecturing us about national security and what needs to be done... on and on about what we don't understand...

This one and only time this country was ever attacked on home soil was under the careful watch of the glorious republicl0wn leadership of GW Bush-turd2... by the brother of a former business associate... after he was warned of an impending attack and chose to ignore it. He then started a new and unnecessary war... based on info delivered by a disgruntled expat cab driver.

your boys use wars to get elected and stay in office

ergo GFY

#35 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-06-06 06:28 AM

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