President Donald Trump’s new ban on travel to the US by citizens from 12 mainly African and Middle Eastern countries took effect Monday amid rising tension over the president’s escalating campaign of immigration enforcement.

Full list of the 19 countries affected as new restrictions come into force - The president has placed both hard travel bans and travel restrictions on countries who ‘wish to do us harm’

Immigrant advocates do not anticipate the same level of mass protests that greeted Trump’s announcement of an immediate ban in January 2017 on travelers from some Muslim-majority nations.