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Posted: 2020-01-31T21:03:51Z | Updated: 2020-01-31T22:32:33Z

President Donald Trump announced the expansion of his controversial travel ban on Friday, adding several more countries to the list put in place by executive order in 2017.

The expanded list includes six more countries: Myanmar, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania.

The proclamation, which will go into effect in late February, will primarily impact immigrant visas and those seeking to reside in the United States, including diversity visa seekers.

Specifically, the U.S. is suspending immigrant visas the type of visa given to people seeking to live in the U.S. permanently for people from Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar and Nigeria. People from Sudan and Tanzania will no longer be issued diversity visas.

Nationals who already entered the country or have already been issued a visa will not be impacted, according to a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson. The administration said the new countries have failed to meet U.S. security and information-sharing standards, which resulted in the new restrictions.

Certain exemptions such as for government translators and contractors will be taken into consideration. Student visas from the new countries will not be impacted.

This chaos has become the new normal. The policies this administration has enacted towards people seeking safety have been cruel, inhumane, bigoted, said Margaret Huang, Amnesty International USAs executive director, in a statement.

Reviving this ban, and the anti-Muslim sentiment in which it originated, is a violation of the values of human rights and human dignity, and it must be overturned, Huang continued.

On the third anniversary of the travel ban earlier this week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that the House Judiciary Committee planned to bring the National Origin-Based Antidiscrimination for Nonimmigrants Act, also known as the No Ban Act , to the floor for a vote.