Donald Trump spoke at a rally in Iowa as part of his 2024 election campaign.
“IT WILL COME BIGGER AND MUCH MORE STRONG”
Recalling the travel ban he imposed on some Muslim-majority countries during his presidency, Trump said, “When I return to office, the travel ban will come back more broadly and much stronger than before. We don’t want people blowing up our shopping malls. People blowing up our cities and stealing our farmland. We don’t want it.” he said.
Trump defended the view that the USA “will not be doomed to the same fate as France”.
TRUMP’S TRAVEL BAN
One week after taking office, Trump imposed a travel ban to Iran, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, Chad and North Korea on January 27, 2017, and had to take a step back after the decision was widely protested at airports.
Later, Chad was removed from the list for “fulfilling its obligations”, the travel ban was relaxed, updated and reinstated, but was blocked by the “national stay of enforcement decision” by federal judges in Hawaii and Maryland.
The US Supreme Court announced in June 2018 that Trump’s travel ban targeting 7 countries was approved by 4 votes to 5, and found it unconstitutional.
The current US President Joe Biden, with the decree he signed in the first week of his office, lifted Trump’s travel ban to some Muslim countries. (AA)