Can my state turn back residents from states that are no practicing appropriate anti-COVID19 rules?

The Quarantine Zone
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In Pennsylvania we have been hunkering down with New York and New Jersey for over a month now and are struggling to flatten the curve and have suffered a combined 16,000 dead thanks to COVID-19, already blowing away the pig flu virus death rate of the entire United States in 2009. In the process, we have sacrificed heavily in economic, emotional and other terms.

Lo and behold, Texas is opening their state next week, Florida is opening some of their beaches and has determined professional wrestling of all things is an essential business, and Nebraska is allowing a outdoor shopping mall to open. Its clear other states are not taking this as seriously as we are, for whatever the reason.

Considering the sacrifice and amount of dead, does my state have the right to turn away travelers from these and other states that have either not enacted or put in the same controls as we have aka that our states determine residents from states that have not acted responsible enough? And if opening too early blows up in their faces and death rates spiral in those states while ours go down, do we have more of a case?

A few weeks ago Rhode Island was turning away New Yorkers until Governor Cuomo threatened to sue; Rhode Island supposedly changed its policy to check-pointing passengers from all other 49 states. You could argue that Cuomo had a case in that at the time New York was on a tougher lockdown than Rhode Island.

But to me now the situation is different: OK, Motherfuckers from other states that wont lockdown: good luck to you, but until we are convinced this thing is on the low down, you ain’t sending your residents to my state. I’d even consider extending this to deliveries from businesses from those states. These interstate commerce restrictions might even force the “open” states to make compromises.

I think what could strengthen this movement is new “alliances” between states in different regions that seem to have agreed on the same phased in “opening” procedures. For instance, the states above and several other Northeast states have formed a quasi-alliance like this, and a second group has formed in several Midwest/Great Lakes States and as blocs, they could set restrictions on states that do not have what they consider proper anti-COVID procedures in place.

Now in turn, this could backfire as the Open states could also form blocs and retaliate, but I wonder if their cases would hold up as well in court since they aren’t putting in place the same shelter in place style procedures.

There is a darker possibility thanks to this movement: I’m racking my brain to think of the last time regional multi-state alliances, with the possibility of being pitted against each other, have been formed in modern times. And lets be honest: most of the “closed” states are blue, and the “open” states are red, another divisive element to add to this bitches brew. . . . .
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Is there an outside chance this could be the first step in the breakup of our country?

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Several homeless people who have flown here to Hawaii recently have been sent back due to not being able to provide an address for where they’ll be staying. As you can imagine, sending back from Hawaii is much more involved that turning away at a state border on the mainland. I have been wondering about the legality of this. During Dust Bowl days, California was finally told it could not turn back Okies.

This lady here was a real piece of work though. Flew here from Arizona recently and slipped through the cracks at the airport when she listed a PO box as an address. Officials at the airport should have questioned that, but they missed it. She went straight to a homeless camp in Waimanalo here on Oahu, where she started detailing her life on social media in a bid to become an Internet social-media comedienne. Neighborhood residents saw her online and turned her in. They’re sending her back tonight, with her flight scheduled to take off about 12 minutes from now, according to the evening news.

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I’m confused, how are homeless people able to afford plane tickets to Hawaii?

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Believe it or not, “homeless” doesn’t always mean “can’t afford a plane ticket”. People who are living on the street don’t typically have jobs but some of those living in homeless shelters do, as do some of those temporarily staying with friends or relatives.

Not to mention she may have only become homeless when she got to Hawaii without anywhere to stay - it’s not clear that she was homeless in Miami or LA or wherever she came from. I found some mentions that she gets her social media fans to buy her plane tickets so she can be homeless in a new place, but I don’t know how reliable they are.