As globe-trotting journalists, we learn a routine for covering news under dictatorships.

In such countries, it’s usually difficult to obtain press-visas for more than short periods of time. If longer-stays for accredited foreign journalists might be available, reporters know they’re always under surveillance and risk being kicked out for the slightest critical report.

Now the current U.S. administration has issued orders through the Department of Homeland Security to impose severe visa-limitations on working foreign journalists’ stays in the USA.

Here’s the drill often followed for foreign news coverage in countries with limited press access:

Hustle to obtain whatever short-term visa allowed to get into that country. Rush in for the dateline, ever ready to leave fast.

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