Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith Wilmington partner Rafael X. Zahralddin recently spoke with the Financial Times, South (Diario Financiero, Sud) for a Spanish-language article titled "U.S. Sends Message to Businesses as Part of Fight Against Corruption" ("Las señales que EEUU envía a las empresas como parte de la lucha contra la corrupción").

The article discusses Section 7031(c) of the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2022, which allows the State Department to publicly ban individuals and close family members from entering the U.S.