New York Times
By ALICIA PARLAPIANO
June 27, 2018
The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the latest version of President Trump’s order imposing limits on travel from several predominantly Muslim nations. The first version was issued in January 2017, and the most recent, indefinite ban went fully into effect in December. Here’s what has happened to prospective travelers to the United States since then.
Visitors and immigrants from the targeted countries have sharply dropped.
The most recent order banned most citizens of Iran, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, Chad and North Korea from entering the United States (Chad was removed from the list in April). Visitors from Iraq and Sudan were banned under previous versions, but are now allowed.
Source: State Department | Note: Two countries affected by the ban are not shown. Too few visas have been issued to North Koreans during the period shown to be included in the charts (five immigrant visas and 69 nonimmigrant visas). Venezuela was added to the latest ban in September, but the order primarily affects government officials.
The number of refugees has fallen to the lowest level in decades.
Restrictions on refugee admissions were included in the travel bans and in a separate memo issued in October. But bureaucratic slowdown has also contributed to admissions remaining far below the cap set by the administration for the fiscal year that began in October.
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