Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has said she will recommend a travel ban on several countries which she claims are "flooding" the US with criminal activity, BBC reported.

Writing on social media on Monday, Noem said she had met President Donald Trump and decided to suggest "a full travel ban on every damn country that's been flooding our nation with killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies''.

Trump and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) then shared Noem's post on their respective official social media accounts, according to BBC.