In January 2020 President Trump restricted travel from China as the COVID-19 epidemic ramped up. At the time this was roundly criticized as unnecessary and xenophobic by Democrats including Joe Biden. If I remember correctly some lawsuits were also filed against the restriction.
Sometime later when this was brought up as an example of President Trump paying attention to COVID-19 (contrary to the talking point that he ignored the pandemic) Nancy Pelosi acknowledged the China travel ban but said it didn't do any good since US citizens and a number of other people were still allowed into the country.
On January 25, 2021 Joe Biden issued a proclamation restricting travel to the US from Europe and Brazil. And just like the Trump China restrictions the restrictions don't apply to US citizens and several categories of non-citizens.
It looks like Joe Biden just issued a travel "ban" which is essentially the same as the Trump travel "ban" he criticized a year ago. Yet this one is not being labeled xenophobic or racist, perhaps because we're primarily banning whites, not Asians.
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