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The expected presidential nominee for the Republican Party, Donald Trump, has said that if elected, he will reintroduce the travel ban for some Muslim-majority countries on the first day of his new administration.
The travel ban was a controversial part of his first term as president and was overturned when President Joe Biden took office.
VOA reported that when Donald Trump ran for president in 2016, he promised to change U.S. immigration to prevent terrorists from Muslim countries. While in office, Trump imposed a travel ban on entry into the United States from seven Muslim-majority countries, sparking protests and legal challenges, including from the American Civil Liberties Union.
The travel ban was debated all the way to the Supreme Court, where many conservatives approved it in a move celebrated by Trump online and at the White House. Joe Biden campaigned against Trump’s travel ban in 2020 and ended it when he became president. Now, four years later, Trump told supporters in Wisconsin this week that events in the Middle East convince him that it is time for further travel bans.
In this campaign, Biden has defended the contributions of immigrants to the United States, telling a group of campaign donors this week that some countries have suffered because they hate foreigners. An April poll by Harvard CAPS-Harris shows that immigration and inflation are top issues for American voters.
It should be noted that the United States has been in conflicts with various Arab countries including Afghanistan, Iran, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, and others. The most significant event marking this hostility was after the United States was attacked in the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, USA, on September 11, 2001, an incident believed to have been planned and executed by terrorists of Al Qaeda led by Osama Bin Laden.
