The expanded travel ban targeted heavily Muslim African nations.

Evidence

Just a few weeks later, a court in Hawaii ruled that the Trump administration’s definition of “close family” relationships defied common sense. … Indeed, grandparents are the epitome of close family members.” On January 31, 2020, the Trump administration added six more countries to the Muslim Ban travel list, slamming the door on immigrants from the African nations of Nigeria, Sudan, Tanzania, and Eritrea, as well as Myanmar in Southeast Asia and Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia. Two of these countries (Sudan and Kyrgyzstan) are Muslim-majority countries and three others (Eritrea, Tanzania, and Nigeria) have sizeable Muslim populations nearing 40 percent. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 351

Categorization

• XREF: Directly feeds the global-synthesis thesis — the ban’s expansion beyond the original six links US policy to African Muslim-majority states, connecting to Beydoun and Kumar’s work on how US Islamophobia exports worldwide. — connects to: The Muslim ban extended anti-black racism to Somali and Sudanese immigrants. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 454; The travel ban instantiated a broader structural Islamophobia tying Muslim identity to terror suspicion — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 469; Local European bans often sought to suppress Muslim visibility in public space — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 621 (+2 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 351

Related

• The Muslim ban extended anti-black racism to Somali and Sudanese immigrants. (similarity 0.84)
• The travel ban instantiated a broader structural Islamophobia tying Muslim identity to terror suspicion (similarity 0.83)
• Muslim bans reclassified several nationalities as threatening enough to exclude. (similarity 0.82)
• The Muslim ban’s seven countries shared only Muslim-majority status (similarity 0.80)
• Trump’s Muslim ban was an extreme version of bipartisan prior refugee restrictions. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The travel ban instantiated a broader structural Islamophobia tying Muslim identity to terror suspicion #exemplifies (0.90) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 469
• Local European bans often sought to suppress Muslim visibility in public space #corroborates (0.55) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 621