The new Herald: USAs Evaluates Restricting Income from Cubans, Haitians and Venezuelans as part of a new travel ban

Donald Trump’s government is weighing to include Cuba and Haiti in a list of countries whose citizens will face restrictions to enter the country, they told Miami Herald Fuentes with knowledge of the ongoing discussions. Cuba, which is on the list of the State Department of countries that sponsor terrorism, could end in a «red list» of countries that face a total travel ban, while Haiti could end in a less restrictive version of this list, the sources said.

By The new herald

Shortly after assuming the position, President Trump ordered the administration officials to prepare a list of countries that could be part of an expanded trip prohibition similar to the one he introduced into his first mandate for a group of countries, most Muslim, based on the idea that they have a weak security device to make background verifications.

Since last week, universities have been warning professors and students of countries that could be subject to the prohibition that quickly return to the United States. An earlier version of a travel ban that affected citizens of Muslim majority countries under the first Trump administration was extended later to include North Korea and members of the Venezuelan government and their families.

At that time, the US government cited the country’s lack of cooperation when providing information to verify if Venezuelan migrants represented a threat to national security or public security. The prohibition of travel, in its different versions, affected countries such as Kyrguistan, Nigeria, Myanmar, Sudan, Tanzania, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Syria, Venezuela, Yemen, Mali, Egypt, Eritrea and Somalia.

Cuba was not included in the prohibition during Trump’s first mandate. The iteration of the prohibition of trips that is being discussed is derived from an executive order of January 30 signed by President Donald Trump that orders the State Department, the National Security Department and other agencies that identify “countries around the world for which the investigation and selection information is so poor that it justifies a partial or total suspension of the admission of nationals of those countries”.

When asked about the prohibition of travel, a state department spokeswoman said the agency «does not comment on internal deliberations or communications.» “As established in the executive order.