House Votes to Restrict Future Travel Bans, Moving to Undo Trump’s Legacy
The No Ban Act would curb the president’s expansive power to control immigration and bar restrictions on the basis of religion. It faces steep obstacles in the Senate.
Representative Judy Chu, Democrat of California, sponsored the bill to bar the White House from instituting expansive travel bans like the one former President Donald J. Trump imposed.Credit.Anna Moneymaker for The New York Times
April 21, 2021, 7:37 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON Pamela Raghebi of Seattle blames President Donald J. Trump’s travel ban for keeping her separated from her husband, Afshin, a native of Iran, for three frustrating years.
House votes to restrict future travel bans, moving to undo Trumpâs legacy
By Luke Broadwater New York Times,Updated April 21, 2021, 9:21 p.m.
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Rep. Judy Chu, sponsor of the No Ban Act, addressed a news conference ahead of the House vote on the bill.Anna Moneymaker/NYT
WASHINGTON â Pamela Raghebi of Seattle blames former President Donald Trumpâs travel ban for keeping her separated from her husband, Afshin, a native of Iran, for three frustrating years.
âMy world basically turned upside down,â Raghebi said Wednesday in a phone interview, recalling how the blockade Trump imposed on travelers from predominantly Muslim countries had stranded her spouse overseas. âThey scapegoated a whole culture throughout the world. That canât be allowed to happen again.â
There may be no regaining what was lost: precious moments with loved ones, money spent on visits to stranded partners, opportunities in the United States dangled and then dashed.
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President Biden picks up a pen in the Oval Office to sign a raft of executive orders, including one that repealed his predecessor s Muslim travel ban, on Jan. 20.Washington Post photo by Jabin Botsford.
ISTANBUL - Danah Harbi went to another doctor s appointment this week without her fiance, as she has for most of her six-month pregnancy, as she has for all manner of appointments and engagements during their long, forced separation. Maybe they will be together when the child is born this spring, but the last few years have been cruel and capricious, and the future has been hard to predict.
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