On Sunday Sept. 24, President Donald Trump announced that the United States travel ban has been revised, and will be instituted place on Oct. 18.

“Making America Safe is my number one priority. We will not admit those into our country we cannot safely vet,” Trump tweeted that night.

The revised travel ban has added three countries to the existing five, North Korea, Chad, and Venezuela, and countries Yemen, Somalia, Iran, Syria and Libya will remain on the list. Sudan, known as one of the three terrorism-sponsoring countries, was removed from the revised travel ban along with Iraq. Iraq is one of the United States’ most helpful allies regarding the fight against terrorism, with their troops in close coordination to American troops deployed throughout the country.

“I didn’t get enough information to get why Sudan was removed, it’s all just confusing,” world geography teacher Stephanie Poole said.

Unlike the earlier travel ban, which limited travel to those original five countries for 90 days, this revision will be “conditional based, not timed based,” a senior administration official told reporters on Sunday. Trump’s announcement came on the same day that the previous temporary travel ban was set to expire.

The country Chad is “an important and valuable counterterrorism partner of the United States,” according to the Trump administration, but due to its incapability to share terrorism and public safety information they have been added to the ban. The addition of Chad to the travel ban is also due to the terrorist activity in the country and around the region.

“As far as I know Chad has actually been an ally of the United States in the past, especially in our fight against Isis and our other group which we consider a terrorist group the Boko Haram group, so I didn’t really understand the addition of Chad,” Poole  said.

The Boko Haram group currently operates in Chad which could be the factor that adds them onto the list.

Along with Chad, Venezuela was added to the list for being “uncooperative in verifying whether its citizens pose national security or public-safety threats,” according to the Trump administration. Although Venezuela was added to the list, the travel ban specifically targets government officials who were responsible for the incorporation of the verification the administration asked for from entering the country.

The final country that was recently added is North Korea. Tensions between the United States and North Korea have increased over the past few months, especially since the missile and nuclear tests in Pyongyang.

“So, ever since the Korean War, North Korea has not looked kindly or fondly on the United States and according to North Korea they have now the capabilities . . . to launch longer ranged missiles that could potentially reach United States territories at least in Guam, where we have military and military bases and possibly our western coast with Alaska,” Poole said.

The Trump administration also added that Pyongyang “does not cooperate with the United States Government in any result.”

Like its predecessors, the travel ban is actually unconstitutional.

“I can understand the importance of a better system to vet and to make sure that everybody who wishes to enter our country is doing so for good reasons,” Poole commented.

The travel ban violates the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause, by prohibiting eight countries from entering the United States. The travel ban prevents people from entering the United States based on their birth country, which also which violates the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD).  

“But, on a different level it is unfair in some senses to generalize an entire group or have stereotypes against a whole group which makes that entire group incapable of entering our country,” Poole said.

Although some will say the travel ban is wrong, it is put in place to protect the people of the United States.