Trump administration contemplating increasing journey ban to round 30 nations after National Guard capturing

The Trump administration is contemplating increasing its journey ban — which at present restricts or bars the entry of nationals from 19 nations — to round 30 nations within the wake of the capturing of two National Guard troopers in Washington, D.C., final week, a number of U.S. officers informed CBS News on Tuesday.

The plans are preliminary and the variety of nations added to the record might change, stated the officers, who requested anonymity to debate inside deliberations.

After a gathering with President Trump on Monday, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on X she had urged him to impose “a full travel ban on every damn country that’s been flooding our nation with killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies.”

“Our forefathers built this nation on blood, sweat, and the unyielding love of freedom—not for foreign invaders to slaughter our heroes, suck dry our hard-earned tax dollars, or snatch the benefits owed to AMERICANS,” Noem wrote in her X put up.

The Trump administration has cited the assault in Washington — which was allegedly carried out by an Afghan man who entered the U.S. in September 2021 and was granted asylum in April 2025 — to additional increase its immigration crackdown. It has halted all visa and immigration processing for Afghan nationals, paused asylum case selections for all nationalities and ordered a full-scale overview of inexperienced card instances involving immigrants from the 19 nations at present topic to the journey ban.

The plans being thought-about would considerably broaden the scope of a proclamation issued by Mr. Trump over the summer time that partially or totally barred authorized immigration and journey from 19 nations, most of them in Asia and Africa.

That proclamation, known as a journey ban by supporters and critics alike, imposed a near-total restriction on the entry of individuals from Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. It additionally partially suspended the entry of vacationers and immigrants from Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.

At the time, Mr. Trump stated the proclamation was wanted to mitigate considerations about terrorist exercise in a number of the nations on the record, the shortcoming to correctly vet a number of the affected nationals and the refusal by sure nations to cooperate on deportation flights from the U.S.

In a press release Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security stated it could announce the brand new additions to the record of nations affected by the journey ban “soon.”