Trump travel ban
The Trump travel ban (labeled the "Muslim ban" by critics) denotes a series of executive actions enacted by Donald Trump as President of the United States in 2017. First, Executive Order 13769 placed stringent restrictions on travel to the United States for citizens of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. Following protests and legal challenges, a second order, Executive Order 13780, amended some provisions of the first order, and removed Iraq from the list. Finally, Presidential Proclamation 9645 added restrictions on Chad, North Korea, and Venezuela, while Sudan was removed. On January 31, 2020, the  Trump administration announced the expansion of the travel ban on six more countries. This ban only affected certain visas for residents in countries of Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Nigeria, Sudan, and Tanzania. On January 20, 2021, President Joe Biden issued a proclamation revoking the Trump travel bans. Comments during 2016 presidential campaign. On December 7, 2015, as a candidate for president, Donald Trump called for "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on." His comments were condemned by several of his competitors for the  Republican nomination, including Chris Christie, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, and Lindsey Graham, as well as by several Republican state party chairmen, civil rights activist Ibrahim Hooper of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), and Democratic candidates for president Bernie Sanders and Martin O'Malley. Executive actions. In the days after the first executive order was issued, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer objected to the characterization of the executive order as a "travel ban". However, Trump himself referred to his actions as a "travel ban". In early May 2017, Spicer was asked by a reporter "If this White House is  no longer calling this a 'Muslim ban'...why does the president's website still explicitly call for 'preventing Muslim immigration'?" After the question was asked, the text "DONALD J. TRUMP STATEMENT ON PREVENTING MUSLIM IMMIGRATION" was removed from Trump's campaign website. All three travel bans were challenged in court. This delayed implementation and motivated the second and third revisions; eventually Presidential Proclamation 9645 and its accompanying travel ban was upheld in the Supreme Court. In January 2020, the Trump Administration announced plans for an expansion of the travel ban. Effect on banned countries. More than 135 million people lived  in countries affected by the original ban (which has since been expanded). Muslim countries were most affected— Iran, Somalia, Yemen, Libya, and Syria experienced a 92%, 86%, 83%, 80%, 83%, and 77% decrease in the number of immigrant visas to the United States compared to the previous year. List of countries under travel ban. The countries affected by the travel ban: Exceptions. The United States government has a system to provide 'waivers' as exceptions to people affected from the countries who need visas. The waivers are granted at the discretion of the consular officers who review the applications. The waiver  is granted to those facing a lot of undue hardship that requires them to be with their loved ones in the United States. For example, if a family member in the United States is dying, a person from the country with a travel ban on it would be granted a waiver to see their family member one last time. However, getting a waiver doesn't guarantee entry to the country. After being approved for the waiver the applicants must still apply for a visa. Only 2% of the people who applied for the waiver were granted one. From 33,176 applicants  through April 30, 2018, 579 applicants had been granted the waiver. Revocation. On January 20, 2021, President Joe Biden issued Proclamation 10141 revoking the Trump travel bans (Executive Order 13780, and Proclamations 9645, 9723, and 9983). Polling. During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump called for the suspension of immigration to the United States from seven "terror prone" countries. In January 2017, he signed an executive order partially implementing that policy and halving annual U.S. refugee intake from 100,000 to 50,000.