Eight Reasons For Ending Joe Biden ’s Travel Bans

Ryan Bourne and Brad SubramaniamBack in July, Ioutlined why Joe Biden ’s crude COVID-19 travel bans on non-Americans coming from Europe, India, and a few other countries no longer made any sense from a public health perspective.Talk in Washington at the time was of lifting these restrictions by September. Well, here we are, mid-way through that month and the restrictions are going strong. Officials and diplomats now seem to think October or even Thanksgiving are the earliest potential dates for their removal. Some ponder whether the political incentives might point towards inactionuntil the mid-terms...which would mean bans had been in place for 32 MONTHS.For background again: since last spring, the U.S. international border has prohibited entry for travelers from the Schengen EU travel zone (the EU ’s passport free countries), the U.K., Ireland, Iran and China within the previous 14 days. India, South Africa and Brazil were added to the restricted list during their respective outbreaks. Americans, permanent U.S. residents, their dependents, spouses, children and certain student visa holders or permanent visa applicants are exempt from these rules, just requiring a negative test before entering the US. But nonimmigrant U.S. work visa holders and non-American visitors to the U.S. are not; a lot of the former already here are therefore scared of leaving, in case they cannot get back into the country.As agreat op-ed by Josh Glancy in the UK ’s Times newspaper concluded, th...
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