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Dems Intro Bill Banning Unvaxxed Americans From Flying ๐Ÿ’‰

August 17, 2021

Democratic Congressman Ritchie Torres unveiled a legislative effort to ban Americans opting to not get vaccinated against COVID-19 from taking domestic and international flights.


The New York Congressman sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) lobbying the agencies to only allow Americans vaccinated against COVID-19 on domestic and international flights.


He introduced a complementary bill in the House necessitating that โ€œany individual traveling on a flight that departs from or arrives to an airport inside the United States or a territory of the United States is fully vaccinated against COVIDโ€“19.โ€ It has since been referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, where he serves as the Vice-Chair.


โ€œThe TSA never allows people to enter planes or airports with a weapon, and the delta variant is a weapon,โ€ Torres remarked. โ€œIt is a threat to everyone in an airport and everyone on a plane,โ€ he added in defense of the bill.


Torres launched his campaign just days after former Obama administration official Juliette Kayyem wrote a controversial Atlantic op-ed calling for a โ€œno-fly listโ€ for Americans unvaccinated against COVID-19.


โ€œThe White House has rejected a nationwide vaccine mandateโ€”a sweeping suggestion that the Biden administration could not easily enact if it wanted toโ€”but a no-fly list for unvaccinated adults is an obvious step that the federal government should take,โ€ wrote the former Assistant Secretary for Homeland Security.


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Source:

The National Pulse


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