Title: What is the travel ban? What does it mean for refugees? | International Rescue Committee (IRC)
Headings: What is the travel ban? What does it mean for refugees?
What is the travel ban? What does it mean for refugees?
What is the travel ban?
Is the travel ban over?
Why did the White House want to halt refugee resettlement for 120 days?
But aren’t refugees already extremely vetted?
Who is exempt from the travel ban?
Who is considered to have a “bona fide relationship” with a person under the Trump administration’s guidelines? Who is not?
Why has the travel ban been challenged in multiple federal courts?
What did the Supreme Court's decision to hear the travel ban case in the fall—while partly reinstating the ban—mean for refugees?
How many refugees does the U.S. take in each year compared to other countries?
How many refugees were to be admitted in 2017?
How many refugees will be admitted in 2018?
How many people will the travel ban affect?
What will happen to refugees already approved for resettlement who haven't yet arrived?
What does the travel ban mean for refugees already in the U.S.?
Why did the travel ban name Syrian refugees, specifically?
Are other countries part of the ban?
The president has talked about a “Muslim ban.” Is that in his refugee policies?
What about refugees who have helped the U.S. military?
What's wrong with barring refugees from certain countries or religions if it makes us feel safer?
Will the refugee ban make America safer?
What comes next?
What can I do to fight the ban?
How else can I help refugees?
Here are some more ways to help refugees in the U.S. right now.
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Content: The Trump Administration’s executive orders on refugee travel, however, have hindered these efforts. Breaking, Jan 31, 2020: The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds today to reports of the Trump Administration’s policy decision to expand the Travel Ban . While the Trump travel ban officially expired on Oct. 24, it isn’t over. Arbitrary new vetting measures effectively extend the ban for 90 days for refugees from 11 countries. These procedures will lengthen the resettlement process for thousands of people escaping violence and conflict. President Trump first instated the travel ban on Jan. 27—his first week in office. This executive order suspended the entire refugee resettlement program for 120 days and barred refugees fleeing the war in Syria from entry to the U.S. indefinitely. It also barred entry to refugees from six other countries— Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen —for 90 days. The order resulted in chaos at airports across the country as refugees who were already in the air were detained and, in some cases, sent back to the crises they had fled.