Tehran 1 February _Rights groups have condemned the expansion of US President Donald Trump’s controversial travel ban, saying the administration is advancing a xenophobic agenda.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club(YJC)_Trump added Africa’s biggest country, Nigeria, as well as Sudan, Tanzania, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan and Myanmar to his restricted travel list in an expanded version of the original travel ban imposed by him in 2017.
Human rights advocates said families, universities, and businesses in the United States were paying the price for Trump's "ignorance and racism".
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) protested that the "Muslim ban should be ended, not expanded".
"President Trump is doubling down on his signature anti-Muslim policy - and using the ban as a way to put even more of his prejudices into practice by excluding more communities of color," said Omar Jadwat, director of the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project.
"Families, universities, and businesses in the United States are paying an ever-higher price for President Trump's ignorance and racism," Jadwat said in a statement.
Rights groups slammed Trump's pursuance of white supremacist and exclusionary policies, discriminating people across the globe on the basis of their faith, skin color and place of birth.
"Trump administration continues to push white supremacist and exclusionary policies that discriminate on the basis of faith, national origin, and immigration status," said Javeria Jamil, a state lawyer at the National Security & Civil Rights of Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Asian Law Caucus
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