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Re: Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March

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Post by the_af »

DeathArrow wrote: post #499
the_af wrote: post #473

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I'm not sure if that's sarcasm or not. I'll answer assuming it's in earnest. > Doesn't the crime rate go down when Republicans hold the power? Does it? And what about police brutality? As a tourist, I'd rather go to a country where I'm less likely to be treated badly by the police. > As a tourist, I rather visit Florida than California. I think this in general has very little to do with crime rates. There are confoun…

>Does it? And what about police brutality? As a tourist, I'd rather go to a country where I'm less likely to be treated badly by the police. Why would the police treat you bad? I you don't commit any crime it's most likely you have nothing to do with the police.

> Why would the police treat you bad? I you don't commit any crime it's most likely you have nothing to do with the police.

It's not true, in general, that police won't treat you badly as long as you don't commit a crime. (As an aside, you also have to interact with police officers if you've been the victim of a crime, and again, there's no guarantee they'll treat you well in this situation either).

Same with border officers.

Re: Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March

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Post by rich_sasha »

willvarfar wrote: post #6

> And I rolled it over 30 days to be able to show any recent changes while not getting lost in the noise of daily change. small thing, but learned at work that often there's a weekly pattern (and I'd bet there is for airplane travel) so you ought use a rolling 7 day average instead of 30 because there are different numbers of weekends in each day's 30 day number. This is why there's a slight zigzag in the line charts…

Or just seasonally adjust your time series. Just sayin.

Re: Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March

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Post by AlecSchueler »

DeathArrow wrote: post #510
rekoil wrote: post #357

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Same here. There's one or two things I can't bear to cancel, but I've moved all my email from Google Workspaces to Proton, cancelled Netflix, cancelled plans to go to DEF CON, downgraded storage for Apple iCloud to just above what I need instead of way above, cancelled plans to get a new MacBook Pro this year, stopped buying groceries from companies with American owners, etc.

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Sending money to Netflix means sending money to the administration through taxes in the US. Funding left wing news sources in the US isn't our responsibility either.

Re: Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March

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Post by AlecSchueler »

sebazzz wrote: post #478
pjc50 wrote: post #369

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The threats to Canada aren't attracting nearly as much attention as they should. The problem is people have got too used to just assuming that what Trump says is bullshit: it's just there to sound good on the news, there's no intent to actually do it. Then the tariffs hit. If there's the slightest possibility that what he says is not bullshit, then Canada needs to take it very seriously and the entire northern hemisp…

The annexing is so unhinged that I can't be sincere, yet anything Trump had any power to do he did do. He didn't get peace in Ukraine because he can't control Russia nor Ukraine. He can attempt an Canadian invasion because he is in control of the army.

Yeah, he wouldn't do anything unhinged, right?

Re: Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March

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Post by AlecSchueler »

SpaceNoodled wrote: post #492
kccqzy wrote: post #445

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From what I understand, being arrested at the U.S. border while entering the country is strictly worse than being arrested by regular police while inside the U.S. In the latter case, the police arresting you will at least read you your Miranda rights, will have no right to search your phone unless authorized by a warrant, and will generally offer bail to get out of the jail in exchange for a court appearance. That's…

ICE is already kidnapping people from inside the US and shipping them to El Salvador without even the barest pretense of due process.

And referring to people wrongly arrested as "collateral."

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Post by magicalhippo »

snappieT wrote: post #505
virtualritz wrote: post #332

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It all depends what part of the EU and how you look. For some EU perspective: last summer we traveled with a group of social dancers from Berlin to Pula in Croatia, going to an event at the coast. Croatia joined Schengen in January 2023. We had one couple in the group that where not "white". She is German but her parents are Vietnamese and he is from Syria. They're married, they have German citizenship. They were the…

> For some EU perspective > Serbia is not part of the EU > Racial profiling is everywhere. Also in the EU.

Not exactly entirely outside[1] the EU either though, having applied for membership in 2009 and receiving full candidacy status in 2012.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accession_of_Serbia_to_the_Eur...

Re: Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March

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Post by orwin »

ciupicri wrote: post #472
orwin wrote: post #427

People of my family are flying in in March. New restrictions are in place for people who visited specific countries. My only advice to fellow Europeans who want to travel to the US is to get issued a new passport and, if you have to, lie on your ESTA if you spent any time in Cuba or in the Middle East since 2011 (Your trips are linked to your passport ID)

> New restrictions are in place for people who visited specific countries New?! They've been suspicious about these travels for the past 20 years or so.

I've been in the US despite visiting two fo those countries. Now, if you went to Cuba after 2021, you're completely barred for entry it seems, which, to be honest is weird. anyway like i said, your travels are link to your passport number, just ask a new one.

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Post by DeathArrow »

Arubis wrote: post #297
aiisahik wrote: post #13

Americans do not understand how much press there is outside the US about tourists from Ireland / Germany / Canada getting locked up in ICE jails for weeks on end. It's one thing to refuse entry to someone who doesn't have the right documents. The fear goes to a completely different level once people see tourists getting locked up. As someone who lived in the US for 22 years legally and most of my social and business…

There's a pretty sizable proportion of USians that have a hard time accepting that other countries exist. For what it's worth, we're also starting to have similar (though so far less pronounced) reactions to domestic travel. There's a number of states that are unsafe to travel to if you or someone in your family has a gender identity that's not on the approved list--and that has an outsize effect. I won't go to those…

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Post by DeathArrow »

mcv wrote: post #180
duxup wrote: post #51

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Just the trade stuff, Trump's childish threats to allies. All seem baseless and arbitrary. Trump can't even keep track of who started the war in Ukraine... People don't realize how much good will is being toss aside.

The fact that Trump is nuts and possibly serving Putin by destroying the West is one thing, but the fact that so many people seem fine with it, corporations and institutions eager to do his bidding, Republicans all voting along with things they used to strongly oppose, that's really an eye opener.

Maybe for many people the democrats were worse and they are happy things are back to what they consider normal.

Re: Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March

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Post by DeathArrow »

throwaway5752 wrote: post #331
aiisahik wrote: post #13

Americans do not understand how much press there is outside the US about tourists from Ireland / Germany / Canada getting locked up in ICE jails for weeks on end. It's one thing to refuse entry to someone who doesn't have the right documents. The fear goes to a completely different level once people see tourists getting locked up. As someone who lived in the US for 22 years legally and most of my social and business…

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