Those states' economies thrived off of undocumented immigrants not any more. Draconian anti-illegal-immigrant laws have been a disaster for Arizona and Alabama. Mississippi's experience shows how states often learn from the mistakes of their 49 siblings. It now appears that Arizona-type laws are more likely to suffer their demise at the hands of politics rather than judges. While liberals and immigration rights advocates were pinning futile hopes on the Supreme Court invalidating Arizona's anti-immigrant law, lest other conservative states stampede to pass similar bills, Mississippi conservatives quietly shelved their own version. Though this is not a border state, every aspect of political life was aligned to follow in the footsteps of Arizona, Alabama, and Georgia in passing sweeping state laws against illegal immigration.īut something surprising happened in the Magnolia State. Governor Phil Bryant is a creature of the Tea Party. It wasn't just any ol' Republicans either former Governor Haley Barbour is considered a moderate now. Not since Reconstruction had the GOP controlled every facet of political life. USDOT has proposed rules to strengthen airline passenger protection and require airlines to provide vouchers that do not expire when passengers are unable to fly for pandemic-related reasons.īuttigieg plans to finalize a new rule proposed in July 2021 to require passenger airlines to refund fees for bags that are significantly delayed and for services like onboard Wi-Fi that do not work.īuttigieg said in July USDOT had completed investigations into 10 unnamed airline over delayed or withheld passenger refunds and plans enforcement actions.Last November, Republicans finally took control of the House of Representatives here, the final victory of the party's long Southern strategy. approach to regulating airlines and ensuring passengers are properly treated needs improvements. Low-cost carrier Allegiant initially received no checkmarks but now has three for hotel, transportation and rebooking policies.īuttigieg told Reuters last month the U.S. Related video: Biden administration pushing airlines to issue refunds for changed flightsĪmerican, Delta, United and JetBlue all got five checkmarks for both delayed and canceled flight policies, while Southwest and Alaskan Airlines got four checkmarks. airline covered meals and hotels for passengers severely impacted by carrier-caused flight delays and cancellations," it said in a statement, adding that the dashboard reflected airlines formalizing existing policies.Īirlines canceled or delayed tens of thousands of flights this summer as they struggled to ramp up staffing as demand returned from historic COVID pandemic lows, and Congress has pressed the administration to take a tougher line on airlines. "We’re going to get more rules in the works to protect airline passengers even further."Īirlines for America, a trade group representing American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, JetBlue Airways and others, took exception to Biden's assertions. "As of last week, airlines now cover hotels - eight of them nine (cover) meals nine rebook for free," Biden said. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg told airlines in August he would publish their responses in a "dashboard" and gave them two weeks to disclose what customer service protections they would commit to offering when delays were the fault of the airline.
"Secretary Buttigieg, at my request, called them out." "My administration is also cracking down on the airlines to get passengers fairer treatment," Biden said. airlines to improve treatment of passengers, a claim rejected by the carriers.īiden said prior to changes made in customer service plans by major airlines "if your flight was canceled or delayed, no top airline guaranteed covering your cost of hotels and meals."
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