President Trump bans citizens of 12 countries from entering the US
Newshour
BBC
4.4 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Those banned include people from Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Haiti and Sudan. Citizens from another seven countries face travel restrictions. President Trump said the new rules were designed to protect Americans from dangerous foreign actors and to stop people overstaying their visas. We hear from Republican Congressman Clay Higgins, who supports the move, and ask American law professor Barbara McQuade about its rationale and legality.
Also in the programme: as the bodies of two more hostages are recovered by the Israeli military in Gaza, we speak to the father of one hostage whose whereabouts are still unknown. And some new research that offers a glimmer of hope for an eventual cure for HIV.
(Photo: President Trump speaks during a Summer soiree at the White House in Washington, DC, on 4 June 2025. Credit: Eric Lee/POOL/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsAv from the BBC World Service. We're coming to you live from London. I'm James Menendez. |
| 0:09.5 | We don't want them. That was what President Trump said in the Oval Office announcing his ban on citizens from 12 countries from entering the US. |
| 0:17.3 | They include people from Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Haiti and Sudan. |
| 0:22.0 | And there'll be restrictions on travel from a further seven countries, including Cuba and Venezuela. |
| 0:27.8 | The new rules will come into force on Monday, and the designed, Mr. Trump said, |
| 0:31.7 | to protect Americans from dangerous foreign actors and to stop people overstaying their visas. |
| 0:38.2 | The recent terror attack in Boulder, Colorado, has underscored the extreme dangers posed to our |
| 0:44.1 | country by the entry of foreign nationals who are not properly vetted, as well as those who |
| 0:50.4 | come here as temporary visitors and overstay their visas, we don't want them. |
| 0:55.8 | In the 21st century, we've seen one terror attack after another carried out by foreign visa |
| 1:01.8 | overstays from dangerous places all over the world. And thanks to Biden's open door policies, |
| 1:09.6 | today there are millions and millions of these illegals |
| 1:12.5 | who should not be in our country. |
| 1:15.2 | Well, in that clip, President Trump mentioned Sunday's attack in Colorado. |
| 1:19.0 | An Egyptian man is accused of firebombing a group of demonstrators |
| 1:22.3 | who'd gathered in support of Israeli hostages in Gaza. |
| 1:25.7 | But Egypt is not on the banned list. Congressman Clay Higgins |
| 1:29.9 | is a Republican from Louisiana who sits on the House Homeland Security Committee. He supports |
| 1:35.1 | the tough line on immigration and controversially cheered Donald Trump on when he claimed |
| 1:40.2 | Haitian immigrants were eating people's pets during the campaign. |
| 1:44.9 | Well, my colleague Nick Robinson asked him first, why wasn't Egypt on the list? |
| 1:49.5 | The weak is young, good sir. |
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