Donald Trump signed an announcement banning travel from 12 countries and restricted seven other trips, resuming and expanding the travel ban from his first term.

According to the announcement, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Sudan and Yemen will be subject to "complete" restrictions. Meanwhile, the nationals of Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela will be partially restricted.

The U.S. president said he “considered foreign policy, national security and counter-terrorism goals” when deciding the scope of the ban. Trump introduced the ban in an executive order signed on January 20, his first day back to the White House, directing his administration to submit a list of candidates by March 21.

Advocates have been alerting for months that blanket bans will once again split the home. Bans to travel from Haiti, Cuba and Venezuela may have particularly influence on American communities with large immigrant populations from these countries.

Trump followed plans for the new ban in last year's election against Kamala Harris after he imposed a travel ban on Muslim countries at the beginning of his first term.

"I will ban the resettlement of refugees from terrorist areas such as the Gaza Strip, and we will seal our borders and bring back the travel ban," Trump said in September. "Remember the famous travel ban? We did not take people from some parts of the world. We did not take them away from infected countries."

He refers to the ban he imposed after taking office in January 2017, causing chaos at the airport, with protesters and civil rights lawyers rushing to help affected by travelers.

Trump said the ban is needed to combat the terrorist threat. It was blocked by federal courts for citizenship reasons, but the U.S. Supreme Court will eventually appoint three tough right-wing judges to allow the injunction position.

The Supreme Court said that although Trump's ban did not target Muslims - although it was initially targeted travelers from Chad, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen, Muslim majority countries. According to the court, the ban falls within the responsibility of the president's national security powers. It also includes North Korea and Venezuela.

Then, the U.S. Council on Islamic Relations (CAIR) said: "The paranoia of the Muslim ban should be as clear in the Supreme Court as it is for Muslims who have been demonized. Obviously, everyone except the Supreme Court can see the decision of what it is: an expression of hatred."

In 2020, the pandemic in Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, Myanmar, Tanzania and Sudan greatly reduced the world travel shortly before.

In 2021, Joe Biden ended his travel ban just hours after he was sworn in and became Trump's White House successor.