As President Donald Trump continues his torrid pace to right the wrongs visited on America by the Democrat Party — if not the entire world — a State Department-produced travel ban draft circulating in the administration calls for Trump to ban travelers from 43 countries, and would be far broader than travel restrictions he imposed during his first administration, according to sources familiar with the proposal. 

The draft proposal shows targeted countries divided into three tiers — with visas from Russia being '"sharply restricted suspensions," as reported by The New York Times on Friday.

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A draft list of recommendations developed by diplomatic and security officials suggests a “red” list of 11 countries whose citizens would be flatly barred from entering the United States. They are Afghanistan, Bhutan, Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen, the officials said.

The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive internal deliberations, cautioned that the list had been developed by the State Department several weeks ago, and that changes were likely by the time it reached the White House.

In addition to Russia and China, many in the first tier are from the Middle East and Africa, with Afghanistan, Cuba, Iran, and North Korea among the 11 that could face the most drastic restrictions.

In the second tier, 10 countries would face partial suspensions that would impact tourist and student visas as well as other immigrant visas, with some exceptions. Citizens on that list would also be subjected to mandatory in-person interviews in order to receive a visa. It includes Belarus, Eritrea, Haiti, Laos, Myanmar, Pakistan, Russia, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, and Turkmenistan.

Third-tier countries — a total of 22 — would be considered for a partial suspension of U.S. visa issuance if their governments "do not make efforts to address deficiencies within 60 days", the memo said. according to The Times.

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When Trump took office in January, he issued an executive order requiring the State Department to identify countries “for which vetting and screening information is so deficient as to warrant a partial or full suspension on the admission of nationals from those countries.”

According to Daily Mail, critics of Trump and his administration "have been left baffled by some of the list, including Bhutan, from which travel is banned." Then again, Trump's critics have been beyond baffled — often to the point of apoplectic meltdown — by everything Trump says, proposes, or does.

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Meanwhile, as Team Trump continues to shut down the inflow of illegal aliens into the U.S.—and properly deport the worst of the worst—it's past time to ban travelers from countries that are antagonistic to this country and therefore pose a reasonable, if not serious, threat to our national security.