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Source: THE AS­SO­CI­AT­ED PRESS

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s new ban on trav­el to the U.S. by cit­i­zens from 12 main­ly African and Mid­dle East­ern coun­tries is set to take ef­fect Mon­day amid es­ca­lat­ing ten­sion over the pres­i­dent’s un­prece­dent­ed cam­paign of im­mi­gra­tion en­force­ment.

The new procla­ma­tion, which Trump signed on Wednes­day, ap­plies to cit­i­zens of Afghanistan, Myan­mar, Chad, the Re­pub­lic of Con­go, Equa­to­r­i­al Guinea, Er­itrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, So­ma­lia, Su­dan and Yemen. It al­so im­pos­es height­ened re­stric­tions on peo­ple from Bu­run­di, Cu­ba, Laos, Sier­ra Leone, To­go, Turk­menistan and Venezuela who are out­side the U.S. and don’t hold a valid visa.