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

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• 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.
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The Trump administration on Tuesday extended restrictions on "non-essential" travel at the US borders with Canada and Mexico, including a ban on asylum-seekers that experts say has nothing to do with protecting public health.

"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.

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