Illinois J.B. Governor Pritzker called on Trump to act on the situation at the airports. He said he got a call from a White House staffer yelling at him for the criticism.
Travelers arrive at the international terminal of the O’Hare Airport in Chicago on Sunday. Photo: KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images In an error-laden speech on Wednesday night, President Trump surprised the airline industry by announcing a travel ban on citizens from 26 European countries in an attempt to quell the spread of the coronavirus. On Saturday, the first day that the restrictions and “enhanced entry screenings” were put into effect, Customs lines at major U.S.
Cheryl Benard, a health-systems expert who flew into Dulles International Airport outside D.C. on Saturday, described the failures at-hand during her experience in an op-ed for the Washington Post: When I inched closer to the front, I could see that a scant six immigration desks were in service. Two additional desks to the left had less traffic. These are ordinarily for people in wheelchairs; now, the wheelchairs were mixed in with the rest. When I asked a security guard about the other lines, he told me they were for people with a confirmed corona diagnosis. There was no separation for this group — no plastic sheets, not even a bit of distance.
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