(7 Jun 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Indianapolis, Indiana – 06 June 2025
1. Mid of people entering and exiting entrance at Chin Brothers Restaurant
2. Tilt down of decorative banner
3. Pan of woman walking inside in store section of Chin Brothers Restaurant
4. Wide of people having lunch inside Chin Brothers Restaurant
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Van Uk, Myanmar national: ++STARTS ON SHOT 1++
“I feel this travel ban (is) very unfortunate. My father, my sister, they still live in Burma. In the past few years we have (had) several students have the opportunity to come to continue their education, but now, it's kind of shut down the window. So, there is no kind of hope for them.”
6. Wide of traffic
7. Myanmar national, James Thang, standing next to vehicle
8. SOUNDBITE (English) James Thang, Myanmar national: ++STARTS ON SHOT 6++
“As a refugee myself, I still have left my family members. Of course, my heart goes back to them but in the meantime, if it is necessary and they deemed it needs to be done, let it be.”
9. Mid of men eating inside Chin Brothers Restaurant
10. Mid of woman cleaning table
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Ronald Nunuk, Myanmar national: ++STARTS ON SHOT 9++
“If you go to the data, look at the police data or other stuff, there's kind of minor violence or minor kind of breaking the law, but Myanmar people, we are never terrorists, we never bomb or we never threaten any people in the U.S.”
12. Mid of shopper exiting Chin Brothers Restaurant
13. Wide of shopper closing car door
14 . SOUNDBITE (English) Van Uk, Myanmar national: ++OVERLAID BY SHOTS 12 AND 13++
“If the president knows what is really happening in Burma I think he will reconsider to reopen this travel ban.”
15. Wide of sign for Chin Plaza Center
STORYLINE:
The Trump administration's decision to impose a travel ban on Myanmar has raised concerns among nationals living in the US.
The ban announced Wednesday applies to people from Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.
Restrictions have been placed on a further seven countries which include Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela, who are outside the United States and don't hold a visa.
Van Uk, who has lived in the U.S. for 25 years and whose father and sisters still live in Myanmar, said the ban is especially unfortunate for students who won’t be able to come to study in the U.S.
“It’s kind of shut down the window. There is no kind of hope for them,” he said.
But James Thang, 35, who came to the U.S. as a refugee from Myanmar in 2009, supported the ban.
“If it is necessary and deemed to be done, let it be,” he said.
U.S. President Donald Trump cited a range of reasons for placing a total of 19 countries under new travel restrictions, including allegations of lax screening of travelers, “a significant terrorist presence” in its territory, a government that wasn’t cooperative ... [truncated]
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