Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

The China “ban” really sums up how Trump conceptualizes everything as an immigration problem — US citizens, permanent residents, and their families were not only exempt from the “ban” (fair enough) but there was no mandatory testing or screening at airports. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted May 10, 2020 Hibernated

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Just think, if Trump hadn’t acted quickly to ban travel from China* we could be facing a situation where thousands of Americans were dying every week with no end in site. *After most flights had been canceled and while allowing most travel from China to continue. — PolitiTweet.org

We are getting great marks for the handling of the CoronaVirus pandemic, especially the very early BAN of people fr… https://t.co/Geies6pYke

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The disease was understood to be not just something happening in China (which therefore could be transmitted by American travelers returning) but as a contamination of *Chinese people* that could be blocked by screening for citizenship rather than infection. — PolitiTweet.org

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