British man banned from US because of text to American girlfriend
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#2Here's the text that caused this: https://imgur.com/O2SbNL8
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#3Power tripping border officials.
Re: British man banned from US because of text to American girlfriend
#4This has to be the result of some incentive structure that rewards border personnel whenever any scrap of evidence for illegal intention is found.
No policeman I ever met was ever so thorough with their job. It's deliberate emigration policy at work.
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#5Basically you need a burner phone when you travel into the USA these days. Make sure you use it for a month before you travel and don't connect it to any of your social media or GMail accounts. I think Huawai phones are going cheap at the moment :-)
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#6Can you imagine if the same attention and assumptions were payed to rich people's private money moves and communications?
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#7Does the US _really_ have a problem with UK citizens overstaying their visa? I highly doubt it, this is insane.
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#8Because most illegal immigrants are British, lol :)
Being an illegal immigrant in the US is extremely unattractive -- decent jobs require paperwork.
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#9Aside from the fact that this article originally came from a sensationalist tabloid (the Sun), there is only the word of the one person, without even a quote from his girlfriend. The whole thing sounds fishy.
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#10It is unacceptable that border police do search the messages in my phone. Never going to this country.