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US could ask foreign tourists for five-year social media history before entry

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Re: US could ask foreign tourists for five-year social media history before entry

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Of course, because Trump is being very careful to target just enough cities with the national guard that didn’t vote for him and most of his voters in red states don’t travel especially to those cities. What do you think the percentage of people would be in favor of using the national guard would be if they were deployed to rural America to stop the meth problem or they were deployed to Memphis, Houston, anywhere in…

he already deployed them in memphis. they are doing ICE raids in red states. they are doing them on farms, too.

https://stateline.org/2025/11/21/trump-allows-more-foreign-a...

And most of his ICE raids on farms were in blue states where he could care less about farmers since because of the electoral college, there votes don’t matter.

https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/11/immigration-californi...

As far as Memphis, the rest of mostly Red Tenessee could care less what happens to black people in Memphis. He was invited in by the governor to save face.

On the other hand, if you expect me to argue that most of America gives two shits about what happens to minorities, you are arguing with the wrong person.

Of course as someone who sees a minority every time he looks into the mirror and he whose still living parents grew up in the segregationist south, I have never had any illusions about the US.

I’ve been able to navigate it quite successfully though

Re: US could ask foreign tourists for five-year social media history before entry

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What is classed as a social media? I expect they'd want to view by personal instagram, but what about my old business Xitter account that I can't even get into because something went wonky with the 2fa? What about my github? My HN account? Do they want to see my discord history? How will they find my accounts anyway? Not all of them are under the same account name, real name or email address

Laws are not enforced by machines, but by humans. The answer to all of those is "yes" and they will not bother to find them, they will ask you to list them. Omitting information or providing false information on your visa application is a felony. It's the same logic as behind the "Are you a terrorist?" question. Lying is itself a crime, and can be used to prosecute you in the future.

Since when was any of this arbitrary stuff "law"? It's just rules the executive branch is making up.

Re: US could ask foreign tourists for five-year social media history before entry

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Ah yes, Texas. If Alaska split in two, Texas would be only the third largest state.

And West Australia is almost 50% bigger than Alaska…

Canada and Russia are each bigger than those.

Re: US could ask foreign tourists for five-year social media history before entry

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Everything that a certain population of the US correlated with the color Blue dislikes is considered hate speech by them, so things become impractical. Thankfully there are fewer and fewer snowflakes.

The trump administration is labeling people against fascism as domestic terrorists. Please don’t make this website Reddit with your idiotic views about ‘snowflakes’

People can be terrorists regardless of what they are against. You can be against anything you want, just don’t terrorize and nobody would call you a terrorist. And by the way many are foreigners, not domestic.
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