Presidency of Donald Trump, Cuba and Haiti
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President Donald Trump eliminated a temporary protected status program even as he bemoaned a shortage of undocumented immigrants in farm and hotel industries.
President Trump, I ask you to please reconsider family reunification for residents,’ said a 10-year-old from Havana in a video.
The Trump administration's ban has stalled or canceled lifesaving procedures for at least a dozen Haitian children or young adults.
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 Donald Trump issued a travel ban, restricting entry of foreign nationals from 12 countries and partially banning 7 more. See the list.
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.
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Explícame on MSNVenezuela and Haiti react to travel restrictions to the US issued by TrumpDonald Trump has reinstated a key policy from his first term, imposing new travel restrictions on citizens from 12 countries, including Venezuela and Haiti.
President Donald Trump announced a total ban Wednesday on the entry of Haitian nationals into the United States and partially limited Cubans and Venezuelans from coming into the country, as part of a broader travel ban affecting several other nations.
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.
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.