President Trump, I ask you to please reconsider family reunification for residents,’ said a 10-year-old from Havana in a video.

Even before President Donald Trump told Haitians this week they will no longer be welcome in the United States, travel from the crisis-wracked Caribbean nation was already difficult. It’s been restricted by deadly gang violence,

President Trump's total travel ban for Haiti drew rebuke among Haitian-Americans across the Lower Hudson Valley region. U.S. Rep. Mike Lawler, a fellow Republican, urged the Trump administration to reverse its decision.

President Donald Trump issued a travel ban, restricting entry of foreign nationals from 12 countries and partially banning 7 more. See the list.

Donald Trump has reinstated a key policy from his first term, imposing new travel restrictions on citizens from 12 countries, including Venezuela and Haiti.

The order, expected to go into effect next week, will fully ban individuals from Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. The countries that will have their travel limited are Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela.

Sick children, families and businesses are among the many people in Haiti, a country plagued by gang violence, likely to be hit hard by a U.S. travel ban.

President Trump has enacted a travel ban impacting twelve nations, including Afghanistan and Iran, citing national security concerns and the need to protect Americans from inadequately vetted foreign actors.

The policy signed by US President Donald Trump on Wednesday is entitled "Restricting the Entry of Foreign Nationals to Protect the United States from Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats" and takes effect on June 9.