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Has America Become the Scariest Country in the World to Visit? (thearchitectautopsy.com)

submitted 11 hours ago by TheArchitectAutopsy@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Five years of your social media just to visit the US on an ESTA, and 50,922 phone searches at the border in a single year with no suspicion needed. Part 1 of my Five Eyes series: who else gets to see it?

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 points 4 hours ago

It's pretty scary living here, and I'm a white American. If I were from another country, I wouldn't come here if I didn't have to.

Even if you didn't find yourself scooped up on some bizarre immigration nonsense, and either detained for months, or deported to Africa, you are very likely to be turned away at customs for any number of baffling bullshit excuses, including complaining about Trump in your social media. All those travel expenses, thrown away, because you had to go to America THIS year.

Go to the Canaries, or Spain, or Thailand, or spend your money seeing the sights of your own country. Come back to America in a few years, when the good people are back in power.

BTW, I'm from Florida, and at least a portion of my income is derived from tourism, so I'm saying this, knowing that I'm going to feel it, but I already am anyway.