Proclamation 5887 --
Suspension of Entry as Nonimmigrants of Officers and
Employees of the Nicaraguan Government
By
the President of the
A
Proclamation
In
light of the current state of relations between the United States and
Nicaragua, including the July 11, 1988, unjustified expulsion from Nicaragua of
the United States Ambassador and seven other United States diplomats for
pursuing legitimate diplomatic activities, the Nicaraguan government's refusal
to allow the entry of United States diplomats to ensure the continued
functioning of the U.S. embassy, and long-standing Nicaraguan government
suppression of free expression and press and support of subversive activities
throughout Central America, I have determined that it is in the interests of
the United States to impose certain restrictions on entry into the United States
of officers and employees of the Government of Nicaragua and the Sandinista
National Liberation Front (hereinafter, the ``FSLN'').
Now,
Therefore, I, Ronald Reagan, President of the United States of America, by the
power vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States of
America, including section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of
1952, as amended (8 U.S.C. 1182(f)), having found the unrestricted nonimmigrant
entry of officers and employees of the Nicaraguan government and the FSLN,
except as provided for in Sec. 2 of this Proclamation, to be detrimental to the
interests of the United States, do hereby proclaim that:
Section 1. Entry of the following classes of
Nicaraguan nationals as nonimmigrants is hereby
suspended: (a) officers and employees of the Government of Nicaragua or FSLN
holding diplomatic or official passports; and (b) individuals who,
notwithstanding the type of passport that they hold, are considered by the
Secretary of State or his designee to be officers or employees of the
Government of Nicaragua or the FSLN.
Sec. 2. The suspension of entry as nonimmigrants set forth in Section 1 shall not apply to
officers or employees of the Government of Nicaragua or the FSLN: (a) who are
representatives to, or officers or employees of, organizations designated under
the International Organizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. section 288) and
members of their immediate families residing with them; or (b) in such other
cases or categories of cases as may be designated from time to time by the
Secretary of State or his designee.
Sec. 3. This Proclamation is effective
immediately.
In
Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-second day of October,
in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-eight, and of the
Ronald
Reagan
[Filed with the Office
of the Federal Register,
Note: The proclamation
was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on October 25.