New Trump travel ban could bar Pakistanis, Afghans soon: sources

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Sources said that a new travel ban under President Donald Trump could be implemented early next week, which could potentially ban entry into the United States for people from Pakistan and Afghanistan.

According to three sources familiar with the matter, the decision is based on a government review of security and scrutiny concerns.

Informed sources, who requested not to disclose their name, said other countries could also join the list but they did not know which one was.

The move refers to the banning of the first term on the first term of the Republican president’s seven -majority Muslim countries, a policy that passed through several repetitions before being retained by the Supreme Court in 2018.

Former President Joe Biden, a Democrat, who succeeded after Trump, canceled the ban in 2021 and called it a “stain on our national conscience”.

This new ban can affect tens of thousands of Afghans who have been cleared of re -resettling visas for refugees or special immigrants in the United States because they are at risk of taking revenge for the United States to work for the United States during the 20 -year war in their hometown.

Trump issued an executive order January 20, which requires a speedy examination of the security of any foreigners seeking entry into the United States to detect national security threats.

The order instructed several cabinet members to present a list of countries by March 12, where the journey should be partially or completely suspended because their “testing and screening information is so lacking”.

Afghanistan will be included in the proposed list of countries for a full travel ban, all three sources and each other said that anyone who asked not to identify.

All three sources said that Pakistan would also be recommended to be included.

The Department of State, Justice and Homeland Security and the Director for National Intelligence, whose leaders are overseeing the move, did not respond immediately to the comment requests.

One source pointed out that the Afghans have cleared the resettlement of refugees in the United States or undergoing severe screening on a special visa, which makes them “more than any population” in the world.

The source said that the Foreign Office, which oversees its settlement, wants special immigrants visa holders to exempt from travel ban “but it is unlikely to be approved.”

Reuters reported last month that the coordinator of Afghan migration efforts has been asked to prepare a plan for its closure by April.

After the two decades of war, the Taliban, who occupied Kabul as the last US troops in August 2021, fought the insurgency through a regional branch of Daus. Pakistan is also joining violent militants.

Trump’s direction is part of the immigration crackdown he started at the beginning of his second term.

In a speech in October 2023, he predicted his plan, in which people from several Middle East and African countries were restricted and “somewhere that threatened our security.”

The coalition of the withdrawal of the US government and the coalition of groups that connects their settlement, the head of the #Afghanevac, called on the US visa holders to travel as soon as they could.

“Although no official announcement has been made, several sources within the US government suggest that a new ban can be imposed on travel within next week,” he said in a statement.

He said it “can significantly affect Afghan visa holders who are looking forward to migration to the United States”.

There are about 200,000 Afghans who have been approved for US settlement or US refugees and special immigrants are pending visa applications.

They have been trapped in Afghanistan and since January 20, when Trump ordered 90 days of refugees to enter and foreign aid, which funds their flights, they are about 20,000 in Afghan.