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According to The Washington Post, the US government considers expanding the migratory veto to 36 other countries, mostly Africans.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, accompanied by the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio (I), speaks with journalists at Morristown municipal airport, in Morristown, New Jersey, on June 8, 2025, on the way to Camp David. (Free Press Photo: AFP)
The United States is considering Expand the migratory veto to other 36 countriesmost Africans, If they do not reach a series of requirements within 60 daysaccording to a memorandum of the State Department to which The Washington Post had access.
The document, signed by The Secretary of State, Marco Rubiodemand those countries through their embassies that show before Wednesday an initial action plan to achieve certain requirements If they do not want to see the entrance of their citizens limited to the United States.
The new list includes more than twenty African countries, including Egypt, Angola or Nigeria; Asian countries like Cambodia or Caribbean islands like Saint Kitts and Nevis or Saint Lucia.
Memorando says that these countries suffer from lack of one “a competent or cooperative central government that produces reliable identity documents and other civil documents “or who have a large number of citizens that They exceed the expiration date of their visas to the United States.
The same document also indicates to countries that have citizens who carry out “anti -American or anti -Semitic activities in the United States“And he considers that one of the ways to avoid entering the list is to accept being” third safe country “for deported people from the United States with another nationality.
These countries would be added to the announcement of June 4, for which the United States denied the entry and granting of visas to citizens of Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Eritrea, Equatorial Guinea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Republic of Congo, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.
This presidential proclamation put partial limits to the entrances of citizens of Cuba and Venezuelaas well as Burundi, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo and Turkmenistan.