1 Biden Administration Set To Ease Travel Restrictions In November
The White House announced yesterday a new international air travel system set to start in early November requiring all foreign nationals traveling to the U.S. to be fully vaccinated. Travelers will also be required to show proof of vaccination before boarding a plane bound for the U.S., but fully vaccinated international travelers would be allowed to avoid the 14-day quarantine after arriving in the country. The announcement came as President Joe Biden gets ready to meet with U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the White House today; Johnson was expected to call on Biden to ease current travel restrictions. The new plan has stricter requirements for Americans; while international travelers will have to complete testing and show proof of a negative test within three days of traveling to the U.S., unvaccinated Americans will have to have a negative test within one day of departure and will be required to test again when they arrive at their destination. Continued mask-wearing during air travel is also included in the new rules, a mandate Biden extended to last until January 18 last month. While there were no requirements for domestic travel in the new rules, the administration says that option isn’t off the table. The announcement comes as the U.S. has recorded 1.1 million pediatric cases of COVID-19 over the past five weeks.
2 Lawsuit Against Doctor Sets Up Test Of Texas Abortion Law
The San Antonio doctor who said he performed an abortion five days after the new Texas abortion law went into effect has now been sued. Former attorneys filed the suits in Arkansas and Illinois yesterday against Dr. Alan Braid; under the new law, the restriction can only be enforced through private lawsuits. The new law prohibits abortions once medical professionals can detect cardiac activity, which is usually around six weeks into a pregnancy. Oscar Stilley, who describes himself as a former lawyer who lost his license after being convicted of tax fraud in 2010, filed the Arkansas lawsuit, and Felipe N. Gomez of Chicago is asking a court to declare the new law unconstitutional. The Center for Reproductive Rights is representing Braid. There are also two federal lawsuits against the new law, Senate Bill 8. In one, the Supreme Court declined to block the law from taking effect while the case makes its way through the legal system. In the second federal case, the Justice Department is asking a federal judge to declare the law invalid, and argues the law was enacted “in open defiance of the Constitution.”
3 White House Reacts To Video Of Border Agents Chasing Haitian Migrants
Video of U.S. border agents chasing Haitian migrants on horseback while appearing to swing a whip at them drew outrage yesterday, with White House press secretary Jen Psaki calling the images “horrific.” When pressed on whether border patrol agents should be fired or allowed to do it again, Psaki said “Of course they should never be able to do it again.” Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota said the actions of the agents were “human rights abuses, plain and simple,” while Texas Representative Veronica Escobar said the action of the agents were “absolutely unacceptable.” The camp of over 10,000 migrants who crossed the Rio Grande has been waiting beneath the international bridge in Del Rio, Texas to open an asylum case, but Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told reporters that officers “continue to exercise the CDC’s Title 42 authority, which allows them to expel undocumented migrants to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Secretary Mayorkas added the current actions are being taken through “not an immigration authority, but a public health authority.”