Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Thursday that President Donald Trump’s administration is moving to expand the number of countries covered by its travel ban from the current 19 to “over 30.”
Noem made the comments in an interview on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle,” where she added that the president “is continuing to evaluate countries.”
The planned expansion follows an escalation earlier in the week in which the administration tightened entry screenings after an Afghan national accused of stabbing two National Guardsmen in Washington, D.C., was found to have entered the United States despite what officials described as “multiple indicators of elevated risk,” according to senior DHS officials speaking publicly on Tuesday.
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