President Biden bans travel from South Africa and seven other nations

President Biden announced Friday that he is restricting travel from eight countries in southern Africa over concerns about Omicron, a new COVID-19 variant circulating in the region. The restrictions start on Monday and apply to non-U.S. residents. Weijia Jiang reports.

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[xl]

I remember what Joe said and what the MSM said when our previous president banned travel from Africa. Do you remember?

[uniteordie]

“The Trump Admin's expansion of its
un-American travel ban is a threat to
our security, our values and the rule of
law. Barring more than 350 million
people from predominantly African
countries from traveling to the US, this
rule is discrimination disguised as
policy.” - Nancy Pelosi Feb 2020

[timmy]

Brandon is Smart ban Flights but leaves the Border wide open. LET'S GO

[fadingwolf]

I'm old enough to remember when a travel ban was called xenophobic and racist.

[ThornsOfOurTime]

When Trump did that Biden called him a xenophobe

[adambyers]

Wait I thought it was racist and xenophobic to ban travel??? That’s what they told us during the last administration…

[dingusmgee]

"racist" and is that only when a non democrat does it?

[brettdouglas]

Trump did the exact same thing. Biden called him xenophobic

[factory]

The media’s credibility has never been lower.

[WinstonSmith]

It seems rather pointless when the southern border is wide open.

[michaelpisani]

But keep the Southern border wide open?
Right.

[swimminginthoughts]

"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man." -Joe Biden about Obama.

[zombiescentral]

But it was "racist" when Trump did this.

[connielynnchadwick]

I wonder if the media will call Biden a xenophobe and racist, like they did Trump when he did this VERY SAME THING. Im not holding my breath.

[Puzzlesocks]

"It's not about freedom, it's about patriotic responsibility." -Biden

...sounds pretty fascist to me. Am I the only one?

[mariemcgillen]

What is interesting to me is, if you recall Donald Trump wanted to close international travel and the Dems all had a fit. They didn't allow it here we are

[reality]

Remember when Biden said it was xenophobic when Trump did it 😳

[expo]

I miss the good ole days where banning travel was racist and the media unnecessarily demonized people for supporting it

[ac]

I am old enough to remember when CBS had an actual news department instead of a propaganda bureau for the democratic party. Good times.

[pkghalm]

His old tweets are going to come back to haunt him.