Travel Ban
EU Foreign Ministers Agree to Freeze Russian Visa Agreement
European Union (EU) foreign ministers decided on Wednesday to toughen visa rules for Russian citizens, a compromise arrangement after failing to reach a consensus on a total tourist ban. The...
No-Go: State Department Extends Travel Ban on North Korea Again
The U.S. government this week announced that it has extended its ban on travel to North Korea for another year. “On September 1, 2017, all U.S. passports were declared invalid...
Do COVID-19 Travel Bans Work? Here’s What Happened When the US Tried It
The coronavirus was still a far-away problem in Wuhan when U.S. President Donald Trump announced a ban on travel from China in late January 2020. Six weeks later, as the...
Trump’s Big Mistake: His Immigration Restrictions Are a Disaster
President Trump banned nearly all permanent immigration and temporary workers last month for the remainder of the year. His order will affect as many as half a million workers and immigrants if consulates...
Forty Thousand People Have Arrived From China Since Trump’s Coronavirus ‘Travel Ban’
Tens of thousands of people have arrived in the United States from China since President Donald Trump restricted travel to the country following the coronavirus outbreak, The New York Times...
Canada and U.S. Agreed to “Temporarily Restrict All Nonessential Travel” Along Massive Border
Through a mutual decision, Canada and the United States have agreed to “temporarily restrict all nonessential travel” along their 5,525-mile-long border. This is the latest joint international attempt to stop...
Trump’s War On Coronavirus Begins
President Donald Trump announced the United States will suspend travel from most of Europe for 30 days beginning at midnight Friday to help halt the spread of the coronavirus. Trump...
Sorry, Trump: The Travel Ban Extension Has Nothing To Do With Security
Over the past two decades, how many people have been killed in the U.S. by extremists from the six countries on the Trump administration’s new travel ban list? The answer...
How the Coronavirus Will ‘Infect’ the Global Economy
The spread of infectious diseases is invariably linked to travel. Today, tourism is a huge global business that accounts for 10.4 per cent of global Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and 10...
Don’t Listen to Trump: the Travel Ban Isn’t About National Security
The Trump administration just released an immigration ban on the six countries of Nigeria, Kyrgyzstan, Eritrea, Myanmar, Tanzania, and Sudan. Citizens of Nigeria, Myanmar, Eritrea, and Kyrgyzstan won’t be allowed to apply for...
Trump Slaps Visa Ban on Chinese Officials for Uyghur Persecution
The U.S. government slapped visa bans on Chinese officials connected to the mass detainment and subjugation of its Uighur Muslim population, further escalating tensions between the two countries. Secretary of...