Trump administration is extending a ban on ‘non-essential’ travel at the borders with Canada and Mexico — including a ban on asylum-seekers

The Trump administration is extending a ban on “non-essential” travel at the borders with Canada and Mexico. “Our efforts over the last several months to limit non-essential travel have been successful and now is not the time to change course,” Department of Homeland Security Acting Secretary Chad Wolf said in a statement. Leading public health experts say the ban on asylum-seekers has no basis in science. “The nation’s public health laws should not be used as a pretext for overriding humanitarian laws and treaties that provide life-saving protections to refugees seeking asylum and unaccompanied children,” they wrote. Visit