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Trump Claims London Protests Are 'Fake News,' But These Images Tell A Different Story
White House Announces New Travel Restrictions On Cuba, Including Cruise Ships
After a brief window of rel- atively open travel and ex- panded trade between the two nations, the Trump ad- ministration imposed new rules on U. S. tourists going to Cuba, including a ban on cruise ships, the most fre- quent method of travel for Americans visiting the island. As of Wednesday, the U. S. will not allow group educa- tional or cultural “people to people” trips — which made up the bulk of American tourism, as individual travel was still banned — unless they were booked prior to June 5. American cruises, private yachts, fishing ves- sels, and private and corpo- rate aircraft will not be permitted to stop in Cuba ei- ther. Commercial flights from the U. S. will still be permit- ted, as they “broadly support family travel and other lawful forms of travel,” according to a State Depart- mentspokesperson. In the
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first four months of the year, 142,721 Americans visited Cuba on cruises, compared to 114,832 who traveled by plane.
In a statement on Tues- day, Secretary Steve Mnuchin explained the ad- ministration’s new position: “Cuba continues to play a destabilizing role in the Western Hemisphere, pro- viding a communist foothold in the region and propping
up U.S. adversaries in places like Venezuela and Nicaragua by fomenting instability, un- dermining the rule of law, and suppressing democratic processes.” The United States claimed in May that there were 20,000 Cuban soldiers currently in Venezuela sup- porting President Maduro, though Havana stated that number repre- sented the medical workers it has in the country.
On the second day of Donald Trump’s visit to the United King- dom, he stood in front of the world press to announce that he was having a great time, that the queen was “fantastic,” and, oh, that those reports about protests in London against him were “fake news,” and that it was just a “very, very small group of people.” Not true. Thousands protested President Trump's visit.
Migrant Kids ‘Kept In Van For 39 Hours’ Before Reunifications With Parents
Migrant children who were torn from their parents by Trump administration policies faced one more hor- rific experience before being reunited with their families last summer, according to a NBC News report. On a boil- ing Texas day last July, 37 kids boarded vans for what they were told would be a 30- minute ride—but one was stuck on board for 39 hours.
Most of the children, who were all between 5 and 12 years old at the time, spent at least 23 hours in the vehicles. “The children were initially taken into the facility, but were then returned to the van as the facility was still work- ing on paperwork,” explained Andrew Carter, a regional director for BCFS Heath and
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Human Services, a govern- ment contractor and non- profit responsible for the children. “The children were brought back in later in the evening, but returned to the vans because it was too cold in the facility and they were still not ready to be processed in.”
An Immigration and Cus- toms Enforcement spokesperson said the inci- dent was “unusual,” adding: “These children have all been reunited with their parents and since then, no child has spent more than a few hours waiting to be reunited with their parents.”
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