this and his other positions are so inane that they aren't even worth arguing against anymore. trump is a domestic terrorist, pure and simple, and he is completely despicable. i have been downvoted on hacker news for stating the u.s. is an authoritarian state, and here he and his sycophants continue, completely unchecked by anyone, in this direction. a standing president is using a public health crisis to broadly increase unchecked power in order to secure his re-election. i would not be surprised if his next actions start trying to get rid of the election altogether. all of these actions are disconnecting families, ruining careers and lives, and are also killing people, both immigrants and citizens. trump is throwing the united states under the bus to serve his ego. if this isn't treason, then i don't know what is. everything that has been fought for (woman's rights, minority rights, immigrant rights, checks and balances, openness, etc.) is being completely eroded by the greatest narcissist and sycophantic following the world has ever seen.<p>i, a u.s. citizen, am at the point where i have no choice but to start considering moving out of the u.s. to rejoin my family. it's at the point that it may be years, if ever, before they're ever allowed to come back to the u.s. and it's likely at least a year before i ever see them again.
Restricting immigration may not logically follow the pandemic crisis and associated lockdown but it does track with similar decisions by China, Taiwan, Australia, France and Germany to name a few, and there are many others.<p>Certainly, it seems difficult to separate the administration's perceived proclivities from good decision making but if one argues that the lockdown, in present form, should continue, I'm not sure I see malice as obvious.