Donald Trump has announced plans to extend his travel ban, now including North Korea, Chad and Venezuela.
Previous members who still remain on the controversial ban are Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen and Somalia.
“As president, I must act to protect the security and interests of the United States and its people,” said the US President in a statement.
He later tweeted: “Making America Safe is my number one priority. We will not admit those into our country we cannot safely vet.”
This is the third amendment to the travel ban, first introduced in January to much chaos. The ban in January was soon blocked by a series of federal courts, which argued it violated the US Constitution’s protection of religious freedom.
The second ban, seen in March, came into ruling over the summer after a temporary ruling from the supreme court.
The Supreme Court will decide on a verdict October 10.
The two challenging groups, a group of Democratic states and migrant legal advocacy groups, are arguing that Trump is deliberately targeted the Muslim population.
With the third countries on the travel ban not having a Muslim majority, the case could be more difficult to argue.
“Just because the original ban was especially outrageous does not mean we should stand for yet another version of government-sanctioned discrimination. It is senseless and cruel to ban whole nationalities of people who are often fleeing the very same violence that the US government wishes to keep out,” said Naureen Shah, from Amnesty International USA.
“This ban must not stand in any form.” she added.
Johnathan Smith, legal director of Muslim Advocates said: “Let us not be fooled by the administration’s attempted tricks and semantics, this is still the same Muslim ban. The administration is once again making cosmetic adjustments to the Muslim ban in hopes that it will pass the barest possible definition of anything else, but they’ve failed again.”