Isabella Volmert.

Eight years after President Donald Trump’s first travel ban largely targeted majority-Muslim countries, many Arab Americans say his new ban is motivated by bias. They call it the latest act of abandonment by both major political parties in the U.S. over many years. The new travel ban, which took effect Monday, largely targets African and Middle Eastern countries and jolted many of the thousands of residents in the metro Detroit area from Yemen, one of the countries included in the ban. In a state that’s home to one of the country’s largest Arab American populations, the latest development feels to some as a betrayal by Trump, who won over some Arab American voters in winning the battleground state in 2024.