On November 26, President Joe Biden imposed a travel ban on eight nations in southern Africa – Botswana, Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, (the Republic of) South Africa, and Zimbabwe – in response to the newly emergi…
Travel Ban
Some Americans hoped or assumed that Joe Biden would govern like a centrist. After all, much of the mainstream media and many of his high-profile supporters (but I repeat myself) often called him a “moderate,” and many years ago Mr. Biden was indeed ra…
Arrivals at America’s southern border are rising, despite the continued ban on “non-essential” travel. At the rate northbound traffic is increasing, crossings will soon be back to pre-COVID-19 levels. An interactive government database shows pedestrian…
House Democrats recently passed a bill, known as The No Ban Act, that would strip any president of the ability to suspend travel to the U.S. from certain countries that pose a threat to the U.S. Passed by a party-line vote of 233-183, the bill, if it b…
Under current law, the president can react in real time to national security threats by restricting the entry of aliens under the authority laid out in Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. This section is quite clear, reading: “…
Citing heightened security risks, the U.S. is halting immigrant visas for six countries: Nigeria, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Eritrea, Sudan and Tanzania. The new restrictions take effect February 22. “It’s a serious step, which should be construed as r…