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Chad is part of Trump’s travel ban because it ran out of passport paper
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Oct 19, 2017 08:38pm |
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| Category | General |
| Author | Alexa Liautaud |
| News Date | Thursday, October 19, 2017 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The Trump administration’s perplexing decision in September to add Chad — a key partner in U.S. counterterrorism efforts in central Africa — to its latest travel ban was almost entirely based on a technical snafu, U.S. officials told the Associated Press.
Put simply: Chad, one of the poorest countries in the world, ran out of passport paper.
AP reported Thursday that the Department of Homeland Security had asked every country to submit samples of their passport paper as part of a broader verification of whether they were secure. Unfortunately for Chadians hoping to visit the U.S., their country had run out of the required paper, and weren’t able to meet the U.S.’s demands in time.
U.S. officials said that Chad’s government had tried to submit an older version of the passport, but that their attempt wasn’t enough to sway the DHS into letting them off the hook. |
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