According to the American newspaper The New York Times, The administration of the Republican president Donald Trump Plan to incorporate a new travel ban that will allegedly enter the next Friday, March 21 and will directly affect all citizens from various Caribbean countries, South America, Asia and Africa.
According to the New York medium, the new list of Restrictions “It will be more strict“That the version that Trump implemented during his first presidential mandate, in 2017, because a draft of the norm that circulates within the US government indicates that the plan contemplates Three levels of prohibition.
It is speculated that some US officials spoke on condition of anonymity To be able to discuss with the press the “delicate internal deliberations”, taking into consideration that the State Department “spent several weeks” preparing the list of the 43 countries with prohibitions in the United States.
“Officials of Embassy and regional offices of the State Department, as well as security specialists from other departments and agencies of intelligencethey have been reviewing the draft, ”he added The New York Timesbecause USA must verify that these Restrictions do not affect cooperation in other priorities in the country.
Three restriction levels
The draft of the alleged list of restrictions shared by the White House He mentions that, after a series of recommendations from several US diplomatic officials and security, President Donald Trump is considering cataloging prohibitions at three different levels: Red, orange and yellow.
The Red list will include only 11 countries whose citizens will have a “Rotunda Total Prohibition” to enter the territory of the United States and may not opt for refuge or political asylum under any circumstance: Afghanistan, Bután, CubaIran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen.
In addition, the Orange list includes 10 countries for which They will restrict The trips, but I don’t know They will prohibitso there may be specific cases in which the entry to wealthy business travelersbut not tourists: Belarus, Eritrea, Haiti, Laos, Burma, Pakistan, RussiaSierra Leone, South Sudan and Turkmenistan.
Finally, the yellow list, The most extensive of the three, includes 22 countries that will have a period of 60 days to improve their security controls and share information with the United States authorities. Otherwise, these nations will go to a more restrictive category, such as the orange or red list.
List yellow of the White House: Angola, Ancient and BarbudaBenín, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, CameroonCabo Verde, Chad, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominica, Equatorial Guinea, Gambia, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, San Cristóbal and Nieves, Santa Lucía, Santo Tomé and Prince, Vanuatu and Zimbabue.
According to US officials, the problems of countries in the yellow list could include “not share information about incoming travelers, security practices inadequate For the expedition of passports or the sale of citizens to people from countries prohibitedwhich could serve to avoid restrictions. ”
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