Immigration Issues

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ICE has arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal records, data shows

The figures don't include arrests made by Border Patrol, which has launched aggressive immigration operations in several cities in recent months.

www.nbcnews.com

 

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U.S. Plans to Scrutinize 5 Years of Social Media History for Foreign Tourists

Even visitors from countries like Britain and France, whose citizens don’t need visas, would have to share five years’ worth of social media.

www.nytimes.com

 

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U.S. Plans to Scrutinize 5 Years of Social Media History for Foreign Tourists

Even visitors from countries like Britain and France, whose citizens don’t need visas, would have to share five years’ worth of social media.

www.nytimes.com

And the tourism industry tanks. Who the fuck would ever want to take a vacation here? Or travel here for business?

 

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U.S. Plans to Scrutinize 5 Years of Social Media History for Foreign Tourists

Even visitors from countries like Britain and France, whose citizens don’t need visas, would have to share five years’ worth of social media.

www.nytimes.com

And the tourism industry tanks. Who the fuck would ever want to take a vacation here? Or travel here for business?

Hey, I think it’s a great idea. If they ever expressed a favorable opinion of Trump or of anyone who has ever expressed such a positive opinion, they should be disallowed, and locked up, should they make it to our golden shores.
Fuck Trump, and fuck trumpsuckers, whether they’re ignorant bubbas or greedy rich bastards.

 

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U.S. Plans to Scrutinize 5 Years of Social Media History for Foreign Tourists

Even visitors from countries like Britain and France, whose citizens don’t need visas, would have to share five years’ worth of social media.

www.nytimes.com

And the tourism industry tanks. Who the fuck would ever want to take a vacation here? Or travel here for business?

No sane person would do it twice. US Border agents made it quite clear that non-US Citizens were an unwelcome nuisance even back in the '90s when I visited. I had a hotel booking, and an onward plane ticket to London 48 hours later, and they insisted on grilling me about whether I intended to work while I was in the US.

It took extreme patience not to say "Yeah, I plan to set up a shoe-shine business in the departure lounge, in the hope of earning more than my wasted hotel booking is worth, so I can profit from my visit. Who needs sleep after a sixteen hour flight across a dozen timezones anyway?".

Of course, they have neither brains nor sense of humour, so saying that would likely have gotten me jailed.

And that was before 9-11; I dread to imagine what they are like now.

Foreign tourism in the US is clearly not an industry the US Border agents are keen to promote. Maybe they get a kick-back from the Canadians.