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According to the proposal, the government may simply block access by a citizen or legal resident if a public servant “reasonably believes” that the user has been exposed or inflamed by the contagious disease.
By Michael D. Shear and Caitlin Dickerson
WASHINGTON – President Trump is contemplating new immigration regulations that would allow the border government to temporarily prevent a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident from returning to the United States from abroad if the government has an explanation as to why the user would possibly become inflamed with the coronavirus.
In recent months, Trump has imposed radical regulations banning foreigners from entering the United States, posing the threat of allowing the virus to spread from hot spots abroad. But those regulations exempted two categories from other people seeking to return: U.S. citizens and foreigners who have already established their legal residency.
From now on, a draft regulation would replace this effort by expanding the force of the government to prevent access to citizens and legal citizens in limited individual circumstances. Federal agencies have been asked to send comments on the proposal to the White House until Tuesday; it is unclear when it will be approved or announced.
According to the proposal, which is based on the existing legal government from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to the country, the government can also prevent you, a citizen or legal resident, from crossing the border with the United States if an official “reasonably believes that the individual would have been exposed or inflamed with communicable disease.”
The draft, from which parties were received through the New York Times, explicitly states that any ordinance that blocks legal and permanent citizens will have to “include adequate protections to ensure that constitutional rights are not infringed.” And he says citizens and legal citizens cannot be blocked as an elegance of people.
The documents do not seem to specify how long a citizen or legal resident would be required to remain outside the United States.
“CDC expects any ban from introducing U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents of the U.S. It applies only in the rarest circumstances,” the assignment says, referring to legal permanent residents, “when necessary in the interest of public health and its duration is limited. “
But if Trump approves of the change, it would be an escalation of his administration’s longstanding attempts to seal the border as opposed to what he sees as threats, the lifestyles of the coronavirus pandemic as a justification for taking action that would have been seen. . draconian in other contexts.
A spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security declined to comment. A C.D.C. spokesman. said late Monday afternoon that it would look for more information on the proposal.
Officials said there were no existing regulations preventing U.S. citizens and legal citizens from returning to the United States for a time due to considerations of a communicable disease.
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