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

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Post by mvdtnz »

thesuitonym wrote: post #209
palata wrote: post #110

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When the President of the United States threatens to invade ex-allies, I don't think that the threatened people give a shit about what the American people think about it. The fact that this guy is the President means that most Americans were not against it, right? Of course most Americans don't want random people detained. But still, this is happening in the US. And one thing that I believe is absolutely clear outsid…

> The fact that this guy is the President means that most Americans were not against it, right? I don't know if that's strictly accurate. United States citizens are some of the most heavily disenfranchised in the western world. Our oligarchs have spent decades making it more difficult to vote, especially for people of color, who overwhelmingly disapprove of the current administration. In some urban areas, it can take…

Stop making excuses for Americans. The American people have spoken.

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

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Post by twixfel »

Nextgrid wrote: post #341
ceejayoz wrote: post #81

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I’ve been getting ads from NZ and the UK.

UK is its own kind of dump, and has the same anti-immigrant dumpster fire being stoked by the media to distract the populace while the politicians & their friends finish looting what little is left of the country. Would not recommend.

The UK has the same problems the rest of Europe has. It’s not special.

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

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Post by mvdtnz »

hansvm wrote: post #400
johanvts wrote: post #57

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A general sense that the US is actively trying to hurt us in the rest of the world. Enabling Putin, stopping USAID programs, imposing tariffs etc. the list is long by now. Just makes you not feel like supporting it by buying US or going there and spending money. Secondly lots of stories about tourists being detained by ICE make it feel even almost scary to go.

We have a general sense that the US is actively trying to hurt us here in the US too.

We didn't vote him in. You did.

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Post by hansvm »

mvdtnz wrote: post #573
hansvm wrote: post #400

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We have a general sense that the US is actively trying to hurt us here in the US too.

We didn't vote him in. You did.

I voted for not him and persuaded a number of people to do the same (not that it mattered in my state anyway, other than reducing his popular vote margin). I'm not yet sure what more I could have done.

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Post by greatgib »

A few years ago, when US ESTA and visa process started to require that you declare your social network accounts, a lot of people were in a mind like "who cares? I have nothing to hide so I don't see the problem"

And now we can see the problem that this can create you huge problems just by posting lawful content that is not positive to Trump and his policies...

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Post by abenga »

pseudalopex wrote: post #294
johnnyanmac wrote: post #185

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That's not the case in the US either. Like, how would that work if a non-citizen isn't bound to law anyway? "Oh you're not American, so you're not bound by our murder laws. Free to go". But this admin highly disagrees with that notion. Really hope the courts start throwing heads sooner rather than later.

Not protected by laws and not bound by laws are different ideas.

This is like that old adage about conservatism.

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Post by navane »

virtualritz wrote: post #332
bayindirh wrote: post #131

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I constantly travel to EU for work. I see all kinds of people from any part of the world, and they pass through fine. When I traveled last time, I have witnessed an European denied entry for a reason I don't know, and a white male without any beard has been escorted into the immigration office. Said office had a giant window. The officers were just chatting with him while checking his documents, and also drinking som…

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…

That's Serbia man. There's a reason they're not in the Union. Starting up shit since 1914.

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

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Post by littlecranky67 »

realityking wrote: post #309
littlecranky67 wrote: post #194

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> 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. And they shouldn't. As far as I know, those cases of German getting locked up media coverage was intense, but the stories didn't check out. Those were cases of Germans entering by foot via Tijuana, making condracting claims to the ICE officer - raising su…

Fabian Schmidt holds a green card and was detained at Boston Logan airport and held for over two weeks: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna196714 (It’s not clear to me if he has been released. The last media reports are from two weeks ago)

He failed to show up to a hearing about his green card. Not saying his treatment is warranted, but all those cases had at least some kind of merrit where an ICE agent might become suspicious. It is not as random tourists getting detained.

"Schmidt’s green card was allegedly tagged for him failing to attend a hearing because the invitation was sent to his old address, according to the family’s fundraiser to cover Schmidt’s legal costs and loss of earnings.

“To compound this error, he had just recently been provided with a new replacement Green Card since he had lost the original one,” the fundraising page says. “Even then U.S. Immigration failed to let him know that there was an outstanding hearing which he had missed and that his card would be tagged.”"

Source: https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2025/03/21/family-of-...

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