U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio had barely returned from his bellicose Sept. 2-4 trip to Mexico and Ecuador, when he announced new measures against Chinese “influence” in the region. The State Department release, issued in Rubio’s name on Sept. 4, orders that Central American nationals who foster or have fostered cooperation with China in the region in the past be banned from receiving a U.S. visa.
Cooperation with China is being declared ipso facto a threat to U.S. economic prosperity. Period. End of story. Rubio is making the United States a laughingstock!
The statute cited to justify this wild overreach is Section 212(a)(3)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which allows the Secretary of State to declare inadmissible “aliens whose entry or proposed activities in the United States could have serious adverse foreign policy consequences.”
