ILAP Denounces Travel Ban, Trump Administration’s Latest Attack on Existing Immigration Pathways

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 6, 2025
CONTACT: press@ilapmaine.org

The Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project (ILAP) denounces the Trump administration’s travel ban, categorically banning people from some of the most serious humanitarian disasters in the world from entering the U.S. on visas. Unless halted by the courts, the ban goes into effect on June 9.  

People from Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen are fully banned from obtaining visas – with a few narrow exceptions – and certain visa categories are banned for people from Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela. This will have a very real impact on Maine immigrant communities who will now face their loved ones not being able to obtain visas.  

ILAP’s Executive Director, Sue Roche said: “The administration’s new travel ban is yet another baseless and discriminatory anti-immigrant measure that will have grave and lasting consequences on many levels. Its broad impacts will include fewer opportunities for people to escape life-threatening humanitarian crises, prolonged family separation, U.S. businesses being deprived of talent, and so much more. As with the administration’s other actions that are purely based on dehumanizing, anti-immigrant sentiment, this latest announcement does not serve Maine or the United States in any way. ILAP hopes to see swift legal challenges and continues to call on our Congressional delegation to act to protect the interests and future of our state and country.”

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