Trump's travel ban is almost unsurprising within tough restrictions |

Donald Trump's first travel ban in 2017 had a direct explosive effect - creating chaos at airports across the country.

This time, this panic and chaos have become widespread by the president’s announcement Wednesday that fully or partially restricts foreign nationals from 19 countries to enter the United States.

Since taking his second term in office, Trump has released a large number of severe immigration restrictions. Within hours after taking office, the president suspended the asylum system on the southern border as part of his extensive repression. His government has ended temporary legal residency for 211,000 Haitians, 117,000 Venezuelans and 110,000 Cubans and has moved out temporary protective status for several groups of immigrants. It has restricted student visas and deprived scholars who have come to the United States legally.

"It's 1,000 deaths," said Faisal Al-Juburi, a Texas-based nonprofit Raices. "That's the point." It is creating hierarchies and limitation layers. ”

A few days after Trump took office, Trump's first travel ban targeted major Muslim countries in Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen. The order was shocking - including many government officials. Customs and border protection officials initially had little guidance on how to formulate the ban. Lawyers and protesters rushed to the international airport, where travelers were trapped in difficult places. Chaos is through American universities and technology companies and refugee camps around the world.

This time, Trump's travel ban is no surprise. He made the announcement 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. Although he finally signed a declaration on Wednesday, it won't take effect until June 9 - allowing border patrol personnel and travelers to prepare for a few days.

The ban includes several exemptions, including those who already have visas in the United States, green card holders, dual citizens, athletes or coaches who travel to the United States to participate in major sports events, such as the World Cup or Olympics. It also exempts special immigration visa programs that qualify for participation in people in the United States during the Afghan war.

But this policy, which may face legal challenges, will undoubtedly separate families again, disproportionately affecting people in the human crisis seeking refuge.

“It’s so scary…and it’s still an arbitrary racism and xenophobia interest,” Jumbrey said. “But this does not create the type of chaos that was created in January 2017, because overall immigration has been extended to a certain extent that the practice of immigration law is in chaos.”

During his second term, Trump took unprecedented steps to remove legal immigration. He eliminated the legal status of thousands of international students and directed us to stop scheduling visa interviews at the global embassies as it prepares to strengthen social media censorship of international scholars.

The government has arrested people who signed in by immigrants, exiled asylums in the notorious large prison in El Salvador and detained academics and travelers at the airport for no reason. Although Trump's travel ban does not include green card holders, his Department of Homeland Security has made it clear that it can and will revoke green cards, including in the case of student activists Mahmoud Khalil and Mohsen Mahdawi.

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“The first Muslim ban is very targeted, it’s cruel, direct, and big,” said Nihad Awad, executive director of the U.S.-Islamic Relations Council. “Now, the government is targeting not only countries with certain religious beliefs, but people of color as a whole, criticizing the U.S. government’s funding for the genocide in Gaza.”

Moreover, the new travel ban was withdrawn and restored by many families from Trump's first ban. "We are looking at the possibility that eight out of 12 years of bans could exist," said Ryan Costello, policy director of Iran's U.S. National Council. "Even during the period when the Biden administration lifted the ban, it was still difficult for Iranians to obtain visas."

Iranian Americans who came to the United States and fled back to the country, they were unable to return to Iran and in some cases they had been unable to see their parents, siblings or other relatives for many years. "You want your parents to be able to have a baby or go to a wedding," Costello said. "So it's a very difficult time for so many families. I think there's more endurance to this ban."

Experts say the new ban is more likely to bear his first ban. It also doesn't seem to have registered the same intense shock and anger culturally.

"For the first time, we saw this immediate rebound, protesting at the airport," Costello said. "Now, over time, Trump has standardized this."