Last month, 79-year-old Martha Beatriz Roque, a prominent dissident and former political prisoner, who received the International Women of Courage Award from the U.S. State Department in absentia last year, was finally allowed to come to Miami by Cuban authorities because she needed medical treatment after falling gravely ill.

Several news agencies report that the White House is preparing a new travel ban, preventing citizens from certain countries from coming into the United States. The ban would revive one of the more controversial policies of the previous Trump administration.

President Trump’s first-term policy grew out of his 2015 campaign call to bar Muslims from entering the country and evolved amid court battles.

Trump Bluntly Shuts Down Reporter’s Question About Which Countries May Be Added To Travel Ban List During a press briefing on Wednesday, President Trump was asked about countries that may be placed under a travel ban.