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A travel ban on majority-Muslim countries marked an early policy controversy in President Donald Trump’s first term. Now, he has turned a similar strategy toward other immigrants, including those from Cuba, Haiti and Venezuela.

On Wednesday, the President announced a new ban on visitors from 12 nations: Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. He also announced travel restrictions on those from Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.

He spotlighted Haiti, one of the nations facing the most onerous restrictions, in a video message. “Haiti lacks a central authority with sufficient availability and dissemination of law enforcement information necessary to

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