washington in a blow to his predecessor donald trumps actions to limit immigration us president joe biden on wednesday has ended the muslim travel ban which blocked travel to the united states from several predominantly muslim and african countrieshours after taking the office biden on wednesday signed 17 executive orders memorandums and proclamations including ending the muslim travel banhe has directed the state department to restart visa processing for individuals from the affected countries and to develop ways to address the harm caused to those who were prevented from coming to the united states because of the ban the new york times reportedimplemented in 2017 during trumps first week in office the muslim ban initially restricted travel from seven muslimmajority nations iran iraq libya somalia sudan syria and yementhe ban faced several legal challenges but the supreme court in 2018 upheld the final version of the measurethe muslim travel ban so far restricts citizens from 12 countries iran libya syria yemen somalia nigeria myanmar eritrea kyrgyzstan sudan tanzania and north korea and some venezuelan officials and their relatives from obtaining a broad range of us visas npr reportedwith another executive order biden has bolstered the deferred action for childhood arrivals program that protects from deportation immigrants brought to the united states as children often called dreamersanother executive order revoked the trump administrations plan to exclude noncitizens from the census count and another overturns a trump executive order that pushed aggressive efforts to find and deport unauthorised immigrantsbiden has also halted construction of trumps border wall with mexico the order includes an immediate termination of the national emergency declaration that allowed the trump administration to redirect billions of dollars to the wall ani