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Originally Posted by MaDef
Are you kidding? Governments issue travel bans all the time. It's been Illegal for U.S. citizens to travel to Cuba for 40 years. It's also illegal to travel to Syria, and Somalia. (hence the reason those Americans end up there via circuitous routes through Europe)
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I think we do not have such bans in Germany. But I may be proven wrong. I just don'T know that such bans have been ordered.
What has been tried was to release a law that could ban German politicians to travel to countries declared to be no-go zones. Also a law to collect ID papers of declared extremist people (terrorism tourists) was mulled or is in effect, I do not know right now. One wanted to interruted the supply with willing terror fighters for the IS that way.
However, these laws were not about banning the whole population in general to reach any foreign state as a travel destination.
Quite surprising that these laws exist in America and ban the whole population. Would expect this in more totalitarian regimes, not in the US. I also have no sympathy for such laws. I only want that the state is freed from any obligation to help put people if they manage to bring themselves into troubles when the foreign minstry has warned people to go somewhere.