Coronavirus Live Updates: Trump Administration Weighs Extending Border Limits
The Fed chair warns that the economic damage could become permanent unless Congress acts. The virus “may never go away,” a top W.H.O. official says.
RIGHT NOW – President Trump has picked Moncef Slaoui, the former chairman of vaccines at GlaxoSmithKline, and Gen. Gustave F. Perna to lead the government’s effort to speed up development of a vaccine, a senior administration official said.
The Trump administration is reviewing an order to extend its virus border restrictions indefinitely.
The Trump administration is moving to extend its virus border restrictions indefinitely, using the government’s broad public health authorities to severely limit immigration across its land borders until officials decide that there is no more danger of infection to Americans, Michael D. Shear reports.
On March 20, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention imposed a 30-day restriction on all nonessential travel into the United States from Mexico and Canada, closing legal points of entry to tourism and immediately returning people who crossed the border illegally to their home countries.
The restrictions have significantly hindered opportunities to seek humanitarian protections in the United States.
Since March 21, Border Patrol agents referred 59 migrants to be interviewed by asylum officers, according to a United States Citizenship and Immigration official. Only two seeking the protections were allowed to remain in the United States.
