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Taiwan asks PH to lift travel ban, cites 『wrong WHO info』 @ 2020-02-13T12: Back Hot News
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THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES PANEL VOTED ALONG PARTY LINES IN FAVOUR OF ADVANCING THE "NO BAN ACT", WHICH WAS INTRODUCED AMID WIDESPREAD OUTRAGE OVER TRUMP"S TRAVEL BAN. THE MEASURE NOW MOVES TO THE FULL HOUSE.
THE BAN ON TRAVELERS FROM TAIWAN WAS ABRUPTLY IMPOSED LATE MONDAY NIGHT AS PART OF THE PHILIPPINES" ONE-CHINA POLICY AFTER IT ISSUED A SIMILAR BAN ON TRAVELERS FROM CHINA, HONG KONG AND MACAU ON FEB. 2 TO PREVENT THE NOVEL CORONAVIRUS EPIDEMIC FROM REACHING THE PHILIPPINES.
CURRENTLY MORE THAN 100,000 CHINESE STUDENTS, WHO ALREADY HAVE AUSTRALIAN STUDENT VISAS AND WERE PLANNING ON COMMENCING THEIR STUDIES THIS MONTH, ARE STRANDED OUTSIDE OF AUSTRALIA AS A RESULT OF THE GOVERNMENT』S 14-DAY TRAVEL BAN FROM MAINLAND CHINA.
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION PROVOKED ANOTHER INTERNATIONAL OUTCRY WHEN IT ANNOUNCED LATE LAST MONTH THAT IT WAS ADDING SIX NEW COUNTRIES TO ITS LIST OF NATIONS THAT FACE BROAD TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS TO THE UNITED STATES: ERITREA, KYRGYZSTAN, MYANMAR, NIGERIA, SUDAN AND TANZANIA. THE EXPANSION OF THE TRAVEL BAN, WHICH PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP FIRST ISSUED AS AN EXECUTIVE ORDER JUST DAYS AFTER HIS INAUGURATION IN JANUARY 2017, WILL TAKE EFFECT ON FEB. 22.
THE US CORONAVIRUS TRAVEL BAN COULD BACKFIRE. HERE"S HOW
LOCAL NIGERIAN CATHOLICS STUNNED BY NEW TRAVEL BAN
NO AMOUNT OF REGULATORY SUBTERFUGE CAN DISGUISE THE BAN』S CLEAR PURPOSE. AS THE BRENNAN CENTER HAS ARGUED IN OUR LAWSUIT CHALLENGING THE TRAVEL BAN, THE PRESIDENT HAS A WELL-DOCUMENTED HISTORY OF SPEWING HATRED AGAINST MUSLIMS, WITHOUT WHICH THE BAN WOULD NOT HAVE EXISTED IN THE FIRST PLACE.
THAT MORNING, ON FEB. 2, PRESIDENT RODRIGO DUTERTE OF THE PHILIPPINES HAD ANNOUNCED A TEMPORARY TRAVEL BAN THAT BARRED FLIGHTS ARRIVING FROM MAINLAND CHINA, HONG KONG AND MACAU. AT THE AIRPORT, OFFICIALS TOLD MS. DORINGO THAT THE BAN ALSO APPLIED TO FILIPINO TRAVELERS GOING IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION.
ISSUED HIS FIRST TRAVEL BAN THREE YEARS AGO — COMMONLY CALLED THE 「MUSLIM BAN」 BECAUSE SIX OF THE TARGETED COUNTRIES ARE PREDOMINANTLY MUSLIM — MANY AMERICANS TOOK TO THE STREETS. THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION REVISED THE BAN SEVERAL TIMES AS IT WORKED ITS WAY THROUGH LEGAL CHALLENGES IN FEDERAL COURT. ON JUNE 26, 2018, THE U.S. SUPREME COURT UPHELD THE THIRD ITERATION OF THE ORIGINAL TRAVEL BAN.
TRUMP TRAVEL BAN, PART II
ACCORDING TO IMMIGRATION LAWYER LEILA MANSOURI, WHO HAS HANDLED CASES FOR IRANIANS AND IRANIAN AMERICANS AFFECTED BY THE 2017 MUSLIM BAN THAT RESTRICTED TRAVELLERS FROM IRAN AND SEVERAL OTHER MUSLIM-MAJORITY COUNTRIES, THE TEXT OF THE RECENT TRAVEL BAN IS NOT CLEAR ON WHETHER NIGERIANS WITH NON-IMMIGRANT VISAS ARE BARRED FROM APPLYING FOR PERMANENT RESIDENCY.
LAST FRIDAY, THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION EXPANDED ITS 2017 TRAVEL BAN — WHICH RESTRICTED IMMIGRATION FROM SEVEN MUSLIM-MAJORITY COUNTRIES — TO INCLUDE SIX MORE COUNTRIES, INCLUDING NIGERIA, AFRICA』S MOST POPULOUS NATION. WHILE THIS NEW POLICY HAS SUSPENDED NIGERIAN PATHWAYS TO PERMANENT IMMIGRATION TO THIS COUNTRY, INCREASED SCRUTINY WILL HAVE A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON TEMPORARY VISITORS TO THIS COUNTRY TOO.
THE RACISM AT THE HEART OF TRUMP』S 『TRAVEL BAN』
LAST WEEK, THE TUFTS INTERNATIONAL CENTER CONTACTED STUDENTS FROM THREE OF THE COUNTRIES RECENTLY ADDED TO THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION』S TRAVEL BAN TO CLARIFY THE UPDATED BAN』S PROVISIONS AND TO OFFER A NUMBER OF TRAVEL AND COUNSELING RESOURCES.
ON FEBRUARY 1, 2020 TRUMP SIGNED AN EXECUTIVE ORDER BANNING ALL FOREIGN NATIONALS FROM ENTERING THE US WHO HAD BEEN IN CHINA. THE ORDER CAME INTO EFFECT AT 5PM ON FEBRUARY 2, 2020. TRUMP HAS BEEN ACCUSED OF 『PANICKING』 BY THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE AFFECTED BY THE TRAVEL BAN.
DECISION EXPECTED ON CHINA TRAVEL BAN AS VIRUS SPREAD SLOWS
U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE JAMES ROBART IN SEATTLE — THE SAME JUDGE WHO BLOCKED TRUMP"S INITIAL, BROADER TRAVEL BAN IN EARLY 2017 — BLOCKED THE COMPANION REFUGEE RESTRICTIONS LATE THAT YEAR IN CONSOLIDATED LAWSUITS THAT WERE BROUGHT BY THE ACLU, JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES, INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS. THEY ALLEGED THAT THE REFUGEE BANS WERE DISCRIMINATORY AND ARBITRARY AND THAT THEY VIOLATED DUE PROCESS RIGHTS.
THE EFFORTS TO TAMP DOWN ON VISITORS FROM THOSE COUNTRIES WITH A TRAVEL BAN COINCIDED WITH EFFORTS WITHIN THE ADMINISTRATION TO LOWER THE NUMBER OF REFUGEES ADMITTED TO THE UNITED STATES. MUSLIM REFUGEE ADMISSIONS HAVE FALLEN MORE THAN ANY OTHER GROUP. VISITORS AND IMMIGRANTS FROM COUNTRIES TARGETED BY INITIAL VERSIONS OF THE BAN HAVE ALSO DROPPED, ACCORDING TO DATA.

 

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