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China’s social credit system shows its teeth, Banning Millions from taking flights, trains
Millions of Chinese individuals and businesses have been labelled as untrustworthy on an official blacklist banning them from any number of activities, including accessing financial markets or travelling by air or train, as the use of the government’s social credit system accelerates.
The annual blacklist is part of a broader effort to boost “trustworthiness” in Chinese society and is an extension...
Supreme Court Rules Trump Travel Ban to Go Into Full Effect
In a massive victory for President Trump, the Supreme Court has ruled that the White House’s travel ban on individuals from terror linked countries will go into full effect.
“The court, with two of the nine justices dissenting, granted his administration’s request to lift two injunctions imposed by lower courts that had partially blocked the ban, which is the third version of a contentious policy...
US bans American travel to N. Korea after Sep 1, passport holders ordered out
The US State Department has ordered a travel ban to North Korea for US passport holders. The restriction will be enforced beginning September 1, by which time all passport holders have been ordered to leave the country.
“The Department of State has determined that the serious risk to United States nationals of arrest and long-term detention represents imminent danger to the physical safety of...
Trump: Judge Blocking New Immigration Order Is ‘Unprecedented Judicial Overreach’
Donald Trump responded to the federal judge in Hawaii who froze his latest executive order restricting immigration just hours before it was supposed to go into effect.
Speaking from a rally in Nashville Wednesday night, the president said it was “unprecedented judicial overreach.”
“Let me give you the bad news,” Trump said. “We don’t like bad news, right? Let me give you the bad, the sad...
Trump Issues New Ban on Travelers from Six Terror States
The Trump Administration released a new travel ban on six terror states.
The affected countries include — Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Syria, and Libya.
Iraq was eliminated from the list this time.
Citizens from these countries will be subjected to a 90 day ban on travel to the United States.
Secretaries Tillerson, Sessions and Kelly announced the ban this morning.
New York Daily News reported:
President...
Ireland Starts Banning Immigrants From Trump’s Travel Ban List
The Belfast Telegraph is reporting that last year the Republic of Ireland refused entry to at least 226 individuals that are from the same countries that are on President Trump’s travel ban list.
From The Belfast Telegraph:
The figures show that last year, 53 Somalians were refused leave to land, while 37 from war-torn Syria were also refused leave to land.
An additional 46 Iranians were refused...
Trump says he’s considering ‘brand new order’ on immigration
President Trump told reporters on Friday he is considering signing a “brand new order” on immigration as his original executive order faces legal trouble.
The comments, made aboard Air Force One, come after the administration signaled it would not ask the Supreme Court to review an appeals court decision that keeps the travel ban frozen.
“We also have a lot of other options, including just filing...
Travel Ban Already Stopped 100000 From Entering USA From Terrorist Countries
The Washington Post is reporting that so far 100,000 visas have been rejected in the one week since President Trump put into effect a travel ban from seven countries that have strong ties to terrorism.
The number was revealed in a lawsuit that was filed by two Yemeni brothers who arrived at Dulles International Airport last Saturday who were denied entrance into the United States and immediately put...
LaGuardia on strike, 58% of Americans want to ban flights from Africa
Airplane cabin cleaning crews at New York’s LaGuardia International Airport began a 24-hour strike on Wednesday, citing, in part, possible exposure to the Ebola virus. Meanwhile, a poll found most Americans want flights banned from Ebola-ravaged areas.
Around 200 Air Serv employees who work on domestic flights to LaGuardia began their strike on Wednesday evening. The group is seeking to unionize,...
Why Won’t Obama Ban Air Travel From Countries Where Ebola Is Out Of Control?
Why does Barack Obama refuse to take even the most basic steps to protect Americans from Ebola? Even though it has already been demonstrated that Ebola can be brought over to the United States by a passenger on an airplane, Obama refuses to do anything that would even restrict air travel from nations where Ebola is spiraling out of control. Back in September, Obama said that it was “unlikely”...
Russia warns it reacts to UK travel ban
Moscow has warned London that it will retaliate if the reports of a British travel ban on 60 Russian officials over the 2009 death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky is confirmed.
“We have focused our attention on this publication and have asked the official British authorities for confirmation or denial of this information,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said in a statement.
“We...