Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Monday she is recommending a travel ban on countries she says are flooding the United States with criminals and welfare dependents, after discussing the matter with President Donald Trump.
“I am recommending a full travel ban on every damn country that’s been flooding our nation with killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies,” Noem wrote on social media platform X. “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.”
The proposed travel ban follows calls by Trump to pause all migration from “third-world” countries and reevaluate every immigrant from Afghanistan who entered the United States during the Biden administration, connecting the policy to last week’s shooting, allegedly by an Afghan immigrant, of two National Guard soldiers, one of whom has died….