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Perhaps, but you would not have said that to her if you were there.
I absolutely would have. I don't need the support of an imaginary friend when facing oppressive customs laws.
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There's a wide spectrum between being aggressive about asking for your passport and detention for weeks. While it's a slippery slope the extent to which it happens, and the extent to which prejudice is involved, varies a lot.
Are you suggesting that Swiss border patrol would have been more forgiving if I were illegally entering their country?
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There was an interesting prelude: once the flight restrictions were lifted after 9/11, the FBI packed up 140-160 relatives of Osama Bin Laden living in USA and quietly flew them out of the country.
This sounds odd, how does someone even have 140-160 relatives who are alive?
Related: "The case for boycotting the United States" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/18/us-tru...
This is what main stream media propaganda looks like. > Dr Alawieh had traveled last month to Lebanon, her home country, to visit relatives. No, she did not; she attended the funeral of a leader of a US-designated terror organization. https://x.com/DHSgov/status/1901668299793899705
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Exactly how have trans people affected your life, directly?
I have worked with (born male) non-binary people who alternate between wearing male and female clothes. I have seen them enter the female toilets, and win awards for women. But tbh, this is a daft question. It's like saying you can't have a policy position on gun control unless someone has shot at you.
Does a woman in a t-shirt and jeans also cause you great emotional distress? Does it become more if she wore a dress the day before?
I'm going to agree with the other person who replied. You're not a serious person.
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This is an article about immigration which is highly relevant to US tech
Would they cover it on TV news? There's little-to-no discussion about the implications on tech, based on my reading of the comments. Just general politics and nationalism.
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Nonsense. Saying that as a European who lived in the US for a few years, now residing in Australia.
You're European - you don't understand what it's like as an immigrant from the third world.
Sure, if you immigrate to a random town (population = 1500) in the French Alps from Africa, I grant that you'll never fit in. But the same goes if you immigrate to a small Iowa farming town (population = 1500) from Ecquador.
>There were around 140 of us in our unit. Many women had lived and worked in the US legally for years but had overstayed their visas – often after reapplying and being denied. They had all been detained without warning. Okay so, not legal then? These articles are always like this. "omg I just overstayed a little bit!!! uwu" Btw, I am European and will never hopefully have to visit the USA again.
Do you seriously believe that because this student technically violated the law before rectifying her paperwork, that throwing her in an overcrowded detainment center is good practice?
If the objective is to scare people off from going to the USA, then they're doing a magnificent job. I've heard other cases of people with green cards being arrested and put in terrible conditions, with absolutely no reason given. This woman was ready to go back home and not enter the US, but instead she was dragged through hell and only released because she was Canadian. All those with different passports get subjec…
This whole situation -coupled with the outright bans or obstacles in giving visas to people from several countries- cannot but have unpredictable consequences. For example, right now, I cannot imagine any big academic international conference keep taking place in the US. And if they do, they should get boycotted. US right now is neither accessible nor safe for foreign citizens. And I bet recruiting or holding to high…
I’m not sure what area you work in, but there are still many in computer science and optimization.
Why is this flagged? First of all, it's about an entrepreneur traveling to the US for a startup, which is directly relevant to a significant proportion of YCombinator founders themselves. Beyond its direct relevance to the core founding audience of HN, it is not clickbait or wantonly inflammatory, and is clearly of interest to many based on the comment activity and votes.