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The president has placed both hard travel bans and travel restrictions on countries who ‘wish to do us harm’

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President Donald Trump’s order banning the citizens of 12 countries from entering the United States has come into force on Monday.

The directive, signed on Wednesday last week, is part of an immigration crackdown Trump launched this year at the start of his second term, which has also included the deportation to El Salvador of hundreds of Venezuelans suspected of being gang members, as well as efforts to deny enrollments of some foreign students and deport others.