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justsomeantifas:

The travel ban is back. It’s permanent. It hits a number of America’s counterterror partners. And its rationale is—at least partially—an official secret.

The White House announced on Sunday evening that President Donald Trump has implemented strict new limitations on which people from a few troubled countries can visit America––including countries that the president himself acknowledges are valuable partners to the U.S. in efforts to combat terrorism.

The United States now has dramatic limitations on which nationals from seven countries—Chad, Iran, Syria, Libya, North Korea, Venezuela, and Yemen—can travel here. The limits are slightly different for each of those countries, and they’re indefinite; unlike the first travel ban, which was only in place for a few months, this one has no stated end date.

The United States has a significant military presence in some of the banned countries. The U.S. is essentially waging a proxy war in Yemen, it’s at loggerheads with Iran—a tension the president eagerly highlighted in his U.N. speech last week—and it has Special Operations forces on the ground in Somalia, Syria, and Libya. During the Obama administration, the U.S. also had a small military presence in Chad and considered it a hub for military activities in Africa.

Despite the assistance these countries’ governments have provided to the U.S.—and despite the presence of American troops on their soil—they are singled out under the ban.

The proclamation specifically says the U.S. government “looks forward to expanding” its cooperation with Chad, Libya, and Yemen. It’s pretty safe to guess that the new travel ban won’t make those countries any more eager to expand their partnerships with the American government.

terrible news for the large somali and persian immigrant communities. absolutely inhumane

yeah I’m a little curious how this affects the Persians

like, you know there’s a sizeable expat community in LA of Persians (all the ex-Ottomans really, Cedars-Sinai started out as “Cedars of Lebanon” and Levantine Jewish “Mt. Sinai” like a century ago)

And they are the most modernist secular fractions of their nation that go back and forth and America totally takes advantage of that, we know that right?