WASHINGTON: Former US President Donald Trump has said that if he gets re-elected in 2024, he would reimpose the travel ban on Muslims.
Many Muslims, including immigrants from Pakistan, still remember the situation that ex-US President Donald Trump created by banning Muslims from entering the US in 2017.
The ban directly affected seven Muslim-majority countries, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen, and spread panic among the people of Pakistan and other Muslim states.
The former president, who plans to contest the 2024 presidential election, has once again expressed similar views. Speaking to white voters in Council Bluffs, Iowa on Friday, July 7, Donald Trump said, “Under the Trump administration, we have kept radical Islamic terrorists and jihadists out of our country,” CBS reported.
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It adopted a strict vetting system and imposed strict travel restrictions. “If I take office again, the travel restrictions will be stricter and stronger than before,” he said. “We don’t want people blowing up our shopping centers and do not want people blowing up our cities and we don’t want people stealing our farms,” he added.
Trump issued three versions of the controversial ban in 2017, and the Supreme Court allowed the full implementation of the third edition. President Joe Biden signed an executive order to repeal the ban during his first week in office in 2021.
