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Most of the posts on here are ridiculous. People saying they are not going on holiday to the USA because it's too much of a pain. Seriously. We applied online for the visa thing. It took under 5 minutes. Then at the airport we queued up at immigration for around 10 minutes. We showed our passport and answered one question about purpose of visit, and they waved us though. This is the experience of 99.9% of those who v…
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> The current US border control security climate dates since the Obama Administration. That is demonstrably and absolutely false.
Then Bush? Because most of what Trump tried to change in terms of border security has been sacked by judges. Travelling to the US now isn't harder than a year ago (except for the laptop ban).
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I really can't believe all the negativity here towards traveling to the US. You're taking a few admittedly awful anecdotes, and turning them into giant statistics about the country. You know that thought experiment where you have scientists debating global warming, but to make it clear just how much consensus there is, instead of having 1 scientist against and 1 pro, you have 1 against and a whole crowd pro? I run th…
I know, chances are small, and I'll likely avoid all of this stuff, but I hate such unfair communication, and therefore I don't even want to try it. For me it is important, and I wouldn't trade my confidence even for a small chance.
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Judging by the narrative the media is putting out one would think that Poland is a nightmare patriarchal state where rape victims are denied abortion and politicians agree that woman should be paid less because they are too 'small, weak and unintelligent' for equal pay. Be more critical. Traveling to the US is a breeze for Europeans.
> Traveling to the US is a breeze for Europeans. No, it isn't. I am European, travelled twice to the US last year. Each time multi-hour wait for the USCBP check. From take-off in Brussels to landing in NYC took less time than getting from JFK to Manhattan. If I can avoid it, I will not be travelling to the US any time soon.
Waiting times entering the UK (even with passport machines) can easily be as long.
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The study linked in your article has been updated (Spoiler alert: Radical Islam has retaken the lead by 2x) https://www.newamerica.org/in-depth/terrorism-in-america/wha... How would it look if we factored in the relative population? > B-but you are more likely to be killed by white trucker driver falling asleep than a jihadist truck hijacker. Misleading much?
Only in the past two years have there been more jihadist deaths. Not sure where you got 2x from? Unless you mean one particular year? You may want to re-read. In reality the KKK has killed more people than all jihadists combined. That is one group.
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So not quite 2x.
> Only in the past two years have there been more jihadist deaths. > In reality the KKK has killed more people than all jihadists combined. That is one group.
I am not familiar with the history of the KKK, but are they still a threat?
If you consider the recent incidents: Paris (how many times!?), Stockholm, St. Petersburg and Nice, do you really believe Right Wing groups poses a greater threat?
Welcome to come to China to make business meetings :)
>At Customs: >Here to do work? Nope! Here on business, meeting with Basecamp I never understood this. What's the difference? In both instances, money is being earned.
I've traveled from Zürich to Los Angeles on Good Friday (April 14, 2017) for leisure - my first visit since February 2016 and thus my first trip to Trump's 'murrica. I was joined with my dad who recently retired and never has left the continent - his first long haul flight and first time to the US. I feared and prepared for the worst and I even was debating about leaving my iPhone, iPad and MacBook Air at home to avo…
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it's not random check, it's called profiling i don't see why people have problem with this, what would be point randomly search old (white) retired woman, what risk she present? pretty much same goes for Eastern Asians, etc. if you have biggest odds finding terrorist between dark skinned Muslims, then you will search them the most, nothing random or racist about that, it's like saying i won't take umbrella outside wh…
I suggest you look up the statistics on percentages of extremists who are/were white males.