The Trump administration announced an expansion of its travel ban to over 30 countries following the November 26 shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, DC, by an Afghan national.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem confirmed the expansion of the June travel ban, which originally restricted 19 countries from partially or entirely sending their citizens to the US.

Noem told Fox News, “If they don’t have a stable government there, if they don’t have a country that can sustain itself and tell us who those individuals are and help us vet them, why should we allow people from that country to come here to the United States?”

DHS has not yet disclosed which additional countries will be included or when the new restrictions will take effect.

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