Legal challenges to sweeping new travel bans targeting foreign nationals from 19 countries could emerge from South Florida, immigration attorneys and advocates said.

The travel restrictions have triggered fear, frustration and calls for action among the affected communities.

Anger and uncertainty in immigrant hubs

"The majority of countries are Black," said Paul Christian Namphry, political director for the Family Action Network. "You have seven of the 12 countries facing full travel bans that are in Africa and Haiti."

Namphry said the bans have shocked and outraged Haitian Americans, and he urged lawmakers at every level to intervene.

The list, released by the White House Wednesday, blocks entry from 12 countries entirely and imposes varying restrictions on seven others. The admi

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