Category: travel ban

California Expands Travel Ban List Over Gender Ideology to Half the Country

California has expanded its travel ban to three states that restricted transgender students from participating in school sports teams that don’t align with their biological sex. State Attorney General Rob Bonta announced on July 14 that California will restrict state-funded travel to Missouri, Nebraska, and Wyoming because of recently passed legislation in those states, bringing…


Tragically, US Travel Restrictions Remain in Place

Commentary The Information Age, for all its wonders in the vast and instant access to any topic imaginable, is really quite a paradox. Accessible information should ideally lead to greater knowledge and understanding. Yet, information is not always true or accurate, causing confusion and misleading recipients. Journalists and news organizations, therefore, bear a duty to their…


California Democrat Seeks to End Travel Ban, Admitting Pro-LGBT Law Hindered Academic, Economic Activity

A California state lawmaker has admitted that a previous pro-LGBT law banning taxpayer-funded travel to certain states has had an “unintended” negative impact on research and economic activity and is an obstacle to its goals to support travel for an abortion. The Democrat-run state’s decision not to engage with states on the grounds of supporting…


How the Bureaucracy Wrecks International Travel

News Analysis Like all truly great bureaucracies, unelected U.S. government staff members revel in adhering to nonsensical, inefficient procedures to create some semblance of order and limit autonomous decision-making. When it comes to U.S. international travel policy, President Biden’s bureaucratic army has come out in full force to accomplish absolutely nothing and avoid all responsibility….


Sanction China for Taking Hostages

Commentary China’s communist regime has wrongfully detained as many as 200 Americans, according to a nonprofit humanitarian organization cited by Reuters on Jan. 18. As the country ends its COVID-19 lockdowns and again tries to attract tourists and businesses, they should realize it is an exceedingly unsafe country. U.S. travelers to Russia, Iran, North Korea,…


California Bans State-Funded Travel to Georgia for Restricting Boys From Girls’ Sports

California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Aug. 19 an immediate ban on state-funded travel to Georgia for passing a law that prohibits biological boys from competing in girls’ school sports. Bonta called Georgia’s recently enacted education bill House Bill 1084 “transphobic.” California’s list now includes 22 states. Arizona will be added to the list at…


Russia Permanently Bans 963 Americans From Entering Country

Russia has permanently banned 963 Americans from entering the country in retaliation to U.S. sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine. The Russian Foreign Ministry on Saturday for the first time published a full list of American citizens subject to its travel sanctions. The move comes as a response after the United States and allies imposed sanctions on…


Biden to Lift Travel Restrictions on 8 Southern African Countries

The White House said Friday that the Biden administration will lift travel restrictions on eight southern African countries imposed last month in a bid to curb of the spread of the highly contagious Omicron variant of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus. Kevin Munoz, spokesperson for the White House, said in a tweet that President…


Israel Adds US, Canada, 8 Others to CCP Virus ‘Red List’ Amid Omicron Concerns

The Israeli government on Monday agreed to add the United States and nine other nations to the list of “red” countries amid concerns over the spread of the Omicron variant of the CCP virus. The office of Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said in a Dec. 20 press release that government officials had approved in a telephone vote…


Conservative MPs Free to Travel Internationally, Liberal, NDP MPs Must Stay Home

Conservative MPs will be free to travel internationally over the holidays while their Liberal and NDP counterparts have been told to stay home. Politicians jet-setting to different vacation destinations drew much attention last year as federal and provincial governments told Canadians to forgo their travel and gathering plans to combat rising COVID-19 caseloads. The federal Liberal government issued Wednesday a…