Trump administration announces extension of border-restricted travel

[TexasTowelie]

by Julián Aguilar, Texas Tribune


The Trump administration announced an extension Tuesday of two border policies enacted months ago to stem the spread of the coronavirus, including an order that immigrant rights and civil liberties groups criticize as a backhanded way to achieve the president’s goal of turning away asylum seekers without due process.

Chad Wolf, the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, announced that the southern and northern borders with Mexico and Canada will remain closed to nonessential travel until June 22. Nonessential travel, according to the post in the federal register, includes “individuals traveling for tourism purposes” like “sightseeing, recreation, gambling or attending cultural event.”

“Given the outbreak and continued transmission and spread of COVID-19 within the United States and globally, the Secretary has determined that the risk of continued transmission and spread of COVID-19 between the United States and Mexico poses an ongoing 'specific threat to human life or national interests,'" says the text posted in the federal register.

Commercial trade and travel, which are essential to the Texas economy, are again excluded from the updated order.

Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2020/05/19/texas-mexico-border-trump-administration-coronavirus/

[Kali]

1. such blatant liars

gotta open up the economy and risk all sorts of things, but travel across the border is the only danger they give a shit about?

[Solly Mack]

2. Assholes. Fuckwads. Racists.

Liars. Cruel. POS.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

3. But it's a (D) hoax...nt

[gab13by13]

4. I could be wrong about this,

but I remember that it was Canada that initiated keeping the border closed.