Authorities to enforce Trump's new coronavirus travel restrictions at US airports.
announced the move just Wednesday in an Oval Office address in which he largely overstated the true impact of his own travel restrictions. The White House order that followed outlined several categories of travelers exempt from the ban, including U.S. citizens, their close relatives, and green card holders.
Passengers wait at the Terminal 1 section at John F. Kennedy International Airport, March 12, 2020 in New York. “Such poor communication only increases the confusion and anxiety that Americans are already experiencing,” House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson wrote this week in an open letter to Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf.
Homeland Security has named 11 major U.S. airports to act as processing hubs for passengers coming from restricted countries. European arrivals will be screened through those airports, plus Boston and Miami, which were added to the list.
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