00:00Challenges against U.S. President Donald Trump's new sweeping travel ban are likely to hit the court soon, says a legal expert.
00:09Trump signed a proclamation on Wednesday barring citizens of 12 countries from entering the U.S. starting on next Monday,
00:16certain that the restrictions were necessary to protect against what he called as foreign terrorists.
00:22The order was reminiscent of a similar move Trump implemented during his first term in office from 2017 to 2021,
00:32when he barred travellers from seven Muslim-majority nations.
00:37That directive faced court challenges and went through several iterations before the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the ban in 2018.
00:45Former President Joe Biden, a Democrat who succeeded Trump, repealed that ban in 2021,
00:50calling it a stain on our national conscience.
00:54But the new ban is much more expensive and covers Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chet, Congo,
01:01Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.
01:08Citizens of seven other countries, Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela will be partially restricted.
01:17Let me start by saying that it's a different list of countries.
01:21So the version that the Supreme Court allowed to go forward excluded some of the countries initially listed.
01:29I expect this Supreme Court, these lower courts, to start looking at the justifications for particular countries.
01:36I personally am deeply concerned, indeed ashamed, that the first country on that list is Afghanistan.
01:43I think that we have behaved in a variety of ways that are unacceptable.
01:52And by denying people who supported the U.S. and their families what we promised them,
02:04we are not behaving in an acceptable or responsible way.
02:09So I believe the first scrutiny will be on who is included and for what reasons.
02:13And then we will need to think a lot about who should be able to petition to be exempt from this very broad-ranging measure.
02:23The visa ban takes effect on June 9th at 12.01 a.m. EDT.
02:28Visas issued before that date will not be revoked, the orders said.
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