Travelers line up to go through US Customs and Border Protection in Newark Liberty International Airport (Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto/Getty)
I joined Monocle Radio’s The Globalist on Wednesday morning to analyze the Trump Administration’s latest restrictions and threats to foreigners wanting to do business, study, or visit the US.
Listen from 33:52:
Host Georgina Godwin and I begin by discussing the Administration’s latest steps, including suspension of visas for those from Zimbabwe and demands for five years of social media records from nationals of countries such as Kenya.
Zimbabwe has been added to a “hit list” from June in which the Trump Administration fully restricted entry into the US from 12 countries — seven of them happened to be in Africa — and partially restricted entry from seven others….
In part, this is because the US is led by a man who has expressed racist attitudes towards Africans in the past and in part because this Administration is posing on the idea of being xenophobic and protecting America from all these dangerous foreigners.
I also consider the financial demands, beginning wiht a $250 fee to process visa and a bond of up to $15,000 for visitors from certain countries.
And I consider the wider threat, beginning with invasion of privacy, of an Administration bent on a xenophobic authoritarianism.
