“We’ve been frozen in time with restrictions for 18 months that have almost nothing to do with what’s happening on the ground in these countries,” Stewart Verdery, a lobbyist working on the issue and a former Department of Homeland Security official under George W. Bush’s administration.
“It’s been very hard to get any type of real metrics, road maps, guidelines, anything out of the White House,” Verdery said. “They tell us it’s based on science.”
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