The head of a group representing California tourism organizations says she is concerned that the state’s more than $117-billion annual tourism industry could be hurt by a plan to change a visa program following the Paris terror attacks. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said at a news conference last week that she and Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., plan to introduce legislation after Thanksgiving that would prohibit anyone who has traveled to Syria or Iraq in the last five years from traveling to the United States without a traditional visa. Recent terrorist attacks in Paris have focused attention on the nearly 30-year-old Visa Waiver Program, which allows people from 38...
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