US President Donald Trump on Tuesday expanded a travel ban by barring Palestinian Authority passport holders from entering the United States, along with banning five other nationalities.

In a social media post, a White House account said that Trump, who has long campaigned to restrict immigration, was acting “to protect the security of the United States.”

The policy announced Tuesday will go into effect on January 1, 2026. In June, Trump had announced that citizens of 12 countries would be banned from visiting the United States and those from seven others would face restrictions. The decision resurrected a hallmark policy of his first term.

Tuesday’s announcement also said citizens from Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan and Syria would be barred from entry.

A White House fact sheet on the announcement cited corruption and terrorism among the reasons for the blanket ban, saying that many of the countries on the list “suffer from widespread corruption, fraudulent or unreliable civil documents and criminal........

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