50,922 phone searches at the border in a single year

There are about 257 million people traveling to the US to or from other countries each year. That means less than 0.02% of those encounter a device search. The article itself also notes that the social media reporting system is not even in effect.

Is the situation is worse than in the past? Absolutely! Is it still deteriorating? Yes. Do we need to improve it? Yes! But perspective matters too. Your chance of a device search upon entering the US is really small. There are many countries around the world where dev searches happen, and some even have criminal penalties for refusing.

I would say the US is scary-ER than in the past. But the scary-EST? Social media doesn't do nuance, and everything is either the very best or the very worst thing ever...

I don’t even want to visit the US and I live here.

MAGA has made it quite clear they do not welcome non-MAGA people.

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.

Women and LGBTQIA+ people: "We can think of some scarier ones..."

There are dictatorships that are far worse but no way in hell will I cross the border to see for myself.

Thanks to Zionists: Palestine.

No, its definitely either Myanmar or Congo.

Edit: Anybody downvoting this: You can't actually believe this. You almost certainly know people who have or are going to the US, none who are going to active warzones.

No one who is decent even considers visiting/supporting the usa.

Wouldn't want to

Definitely the worst, yeah