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.

Trump had campaigned on a promise to restore the first-term travel ban that he had put in place for Muslim-majority countries, and said on Thursday that the measure "can't come soon enough.

Morgan Rynor reports the Trump administration’s new travel ban in now in effect. It bans travel from 12 countries and implements a partial ban on an additional 7 countries, including Cuba and Venezuela.