{"id":8337,"date":"2017-04-05T21:15:39","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T21:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/?p=8337"},"modified":"2017-04-05T21:15:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T21:15:39","slug":"president-trump-sign-visa-free-travel-policies-various-countries-snopes-april-5-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/2017\/04\/05\/president-trump-sign-visa-free-travel-policies-various-countries-snopes-april-5-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Did President Trump Sign Visa-Free Travel Policies for Various Countries?  By Snopes  April 5, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethiomedia.com\/1000graphics\/issu.jpg\" width=\"189\" height=\"259\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On 27 January 2017, President Trump signed a controversial executive order suspending entry into the U.S. for 90 days of travelers from seven countries \u201cof concern\u201d: Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia, and Yemen. A week later, a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking portions of that executive order from being enforced.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"news\">The website USA Television capitalized on that controversy by pumping out a series of nearly identical fake news articles, each holding that President Trump had \u201csigned a visa-free travel policy\u201d for residents of a given country, ostensibly to \u201cstrengthen trade\u201d with that country. For example, one such <\/a><a class=\"cost\" href=\"http:\/\/radiogtv.com\/de-ethiopia-favored-in-trumps-immigration-war-as-he-signs-a-visa-free-travel-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\">article\u00a0<\/a><a class=\"news\">claimed such a policy had been implemented for Pakistani nationals:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The United States President, Donald Trump has signed an executive order to allow all Pakistan nationals travel to the United States without visas.The new order, serving as a change in visa policy for Pakistanis traveling to the United States, would permit them stay in the U.S for a maximum period of 180 days for Tourism or Business purposes only. Stay over 180 days would therefore require a visa.Trump says this measure is to strengthen trade between the United States and Pakistan.However, Pakistanis who hold dual nationality will be banned from entering the United States if their other passport is from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen \u2014 the seven Muslim-majority countries \u201cof concern\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>But USA Television also ran an article that said the very same thing about Ghana. And Botswana. And Belarus.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, in separate articles USA Television claimed President Trump had also implemented visa-free travel policies for citizens of Ethiopia, Haiti, Kenya, Jamaica, Malawi, Mauritius, Papua New Guinea, Russia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, Ukraine, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and the entire Caribbean.<\/p>\n<p>Other fake news sites filled in the gaps, posting articles about the same visa-free travel policy\u2019s being extended to travelers everywhere, from Gambia to Namibia to all of Asia.<\/p>\n<p>If USA Television and their ilk were to be believed, virtually anyone from anywhere in the world could now enter the U.S. for up to six months at a time without the need for obtaining a visa first.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"news\">Of course, none of this was true, as <\/a><a class=\"cost\" href=\"https:\/\/pe.usembassy.gov\/fake-news-sites-changes-visa-waiver-program\/\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Embassies<\/a><a class=\"news\"> around the world noted on social media when these fake news stories gained enough traction that officials started receiving inquiries about them:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 27 January 2017, President Trump signed a controversial executive order suspending entry into the U.S. for 90 days of travelers from seven countries \u201cof concern\u201d: Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia, and Yemen. 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