Immigrant-serving groups across the Bay Area condemned a new Trump administration travel ban that — with a handful of exceptions — will bar most citizens of nineteen countries from entering the U.S.

The ban, announced in a proclamation by President Donald Trump Wednesday night, will “fully restrict and limit the entry” of nationals from Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. It will partially restrict entry of nationals of Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela. People who hold a U.S. green card, and immediate family members of U.S. citizens, are among those exempted.

Aarti Kohli, executive director of San Francisco’s Asian Law Caucus, called the ban “draconian” and said i

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