Amid much-hyped speculations concerning possible travel restrictions by President Donald Trump’s administration, the US State Department has ruled out the existence of any travel ban list.
“There is no list. What people are looking at over these last several days is not a list that exists here that is being acted on,” State Department Spokesperson Tammy Bruce said during a media briefing while responding to a question pertaining to Afghanistan’s status on the purported travel ban list.
The spokesperson’s rebuttal comes days after a draft list emerged provisioning the names of 41 countries — including Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iranm and others — divided into three separate groups which would be subjected to varying degrees of travel restrictions.
Expanding on the reports of the purported travel restrictions list, State Dept official Bruce said that there was a review, via President Trump’s executive order, for the administration “to look at the nature of what’s going to help keep America safer in dealing with the issue of visas and who’s allowed into the country”.
“But what has been touted as something that is an item through the State Department just simply isn’t the case,” she further clarified.
