President Donald Trump has announced bans and restrictions for visitors from 19 countries and warned that Egypt could be next following the Colorado terror attack. The Mail has more.
Nationals of Afghanistan, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Myanmar, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen will be barred from entering the United States under the new order, which goes into effect on June 9th.
Citizens of Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela will be partially restricted from travelling, removing access to all immigrant visas and several non-immigrant travel options.
Trump also issued a warning that Egypt could soon join the no-fly list in the wake of the Colorado terror attack in which an Egyptian national who overstayed his visa allegedly set fire to pro-Israel demonstrators.
“We don’t want ’em,” Trump said bluntly in a video released shortly after the ban was announced.
“Very simply, we cannot have open migration from any country where we cannot safely and reliably vet and screen.”
Mohamed Soliman, the Egyptian national suspect charged with firebombing pro-Israel demonstrators, was residing in the US illegally with his wife and five children.
The President has directed several of his top national security chiefs to investigate whether Egypt should also be added to the list of restricted nations.
“In light of recent events, the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Attorney General, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Director of National Intelligence, shall provide me an update to the review of the practices and procedures of Egypt,” he wrote in a Wednesday proclamation.
Trump said he hopes their efforts will “confirm the adequacy of its current screening and vetting capabilities”.
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In the Telegraph, Jake Wallis Simons says “migrants shouldn’t be treated equally” and the ban “by rights should spark serious soul-searching in Britain”.
“We will not let what happened in Europe happen in America,” Trump said. Ouch. If the months of Trump 2.0 have so far shifted the Overton window across the West, allowing even the likes of Sir Keir Starmer to contemplate – at least rhetorically – tackling immigration, then such a travel ban should be welcomed on these shores as well.
Already, the usual suspects are accusing Trump of being ‘racist’. But a glance at the range of countries on the list shows that this is not a question of race, or even religion. Rather, it is a question of homeland security, and that holds a stark lesson for Britain.
A few months back, official data revealed that though foreigners comprise just 15% of the population of our country, they commit 41% of all crime and up to a quarter of sex crimes. In the first nine months of 2024, almost 14% of grooming suspects were Pakistani, five times their share of the population.
Two nationalities – Afghans and Eritreans – were more than 20 times more likely to account for sexual offence convictions than British citizens, according to the data. Overall, foreign nationals were 71% more likely than Britons to be responsible for sex crime convictions.
Based on convictions per 10,000 of the population, Afghans with 77 convictions topped the table with a rate of 59 per 10,000, 22.3 times that of Britons. They were followed by Eritreans, who accounted for 59 convictions at a rate of 53.6 per 10,000 of their population.
In March 2025, data from the Ministry of Justice revealed that foreigners, who claim £1 billion a month in benefits, were also responsible for large proportions of violence, robbery, fraud and drug offences, between 2021 and 2023. There were no data for terrorism offences or acts of antisemitism. But does anybody want to hazard a guess?
Which brings us to a fundamental question. Why? Why does Britain need to allow the criminals of the world to come to our shores to abuse women and girls, run criminal enterprises, foster terrorism and anti-Semitism, and claim benefits in the process? Obviously not all foreigners from these countries behave in this way. But facts aren’t racist. Large numbers are pulling down our pants, spanking our buttocks and pulling them up again.
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