Why would anyone want to risk ending up in an El Salvador gulag? You can see the immigration authorities going mental at Arabic in a passport or something so fuck that. Plenty other places wanting the tourist income and more importantly, welcome the tourist. Sort yourselves out and maybe we return.
Fell by 27% in Ireland, I've also heard US immigration in Dublin and being very aggressive to travelers seeking to deny any how spoke out against Trump:
Loss of tourism dollars will hurt lots of communities and their businesses who depend on tourism in the off seasons to sustain them year round. I've seen estimates that it's already several billion in loss revenue. If it continues it will devastate some areas. Good job Fotus/MAGA!😡
Would anyone in their right mind voluntarily go to a country where they would be arrested and kidnapped without due process and trial to some detention center (so that Donald's friend can make money) or to El Salvador, just because they have a football club tattoo or?
And let’s not forget the FT has also reported EU officials bound for the US are being issued burner phones to protect against espionage. Seems we are quickly sliding into pariah state status.
I remember years ago talking to a supposedly intelligent woman where her main beef against Biden was “he’s made us a world laughingstock.” At that point I knew it was useless to talk to someone who has FoxNews on in their home.
Most... Europeans tend to not travel to fascist regimes... I do know that sensible us-citizens exist. But they are silent and I would therefore trust no-one.
This is just the beginning, some people couldn’t cancel already booked trips. Now hardly anyone is planning to go the US, several countries red flagged it with an official travel warning. Plus the WH did an additional announcement (read threat) through their Secretary of Propaganda last Friday.
Yup, that’s what I meant. We will gladly avoid traveling to the USA. Since the travel warnings are official it’s even unsure if the travel insurance will cover the costs in the event of an arrest or deportation.
Can’t blame them. The number of seemingly random people from seemingly random countries enjoying extended stays in windowless, concrete boxes would keep me out, too.
Just wait until the airport and travel chaos when the Real ID act goes into effect in May - and people cannot fly domestically. States and state department cannot currently keep up with requests for passports and compliant licenses.
With planes falling out of the sky since Musk took a chainsaw to the FAA and tourists being locked up and interrogated under suspicion of being illegal immigrants, US is a no go zone.
We are afraid of your current regime. We hate your current regime. We will not support your current regime by visiting your country. It's not you, it's them. When normalcy (ie: rule of law) returns, so too will we. Until then. Oh well. Y'all know what you need to do!
Why would "you" vote for the idiot in the first place when "you" knew what "they" were, and "you" knew "they" were going to do. "You" should have voted your asses off to make sure "they" didn't win. Make sure "you" get off "your" asses next election and vote "them" out.
I know a US/Welsh family who are actively worried about the wife ever seeing her parents again, and letting them see their grandkids. I mean, forget the husband visiting at all, especially with his very public opinions.
But it’s not just MAGA who created this it’s every person who voted republicans into congress. Congressional GOO neglected to stop him every step of the way. They also voted to empower him. The only republicans who had the courage to try to save us from the madness were Kinzinger and Cheney
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When I saw this it made my mind up. I don’t respect your laws and values, sorry.
.“Visiting America is not an entitlement. It is a privilege extended to those who respect our laws and values.”
It will be much lower next year, think. People going this year are going because they had already booked.
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/travel/2025/04/13/irish-visits-to-united-states-drop-by-27-amid-anxiety-over-trump-administrations-border-controls/
https://extra.ie/2025/04/13/news/irish-news/dublin-airport-phones-checked
Sent them to jail.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/04/12/ice-tourist-detention-border-trump-immigration/82740260007/
American democracy is under attack on all fronts.
https://christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-republic-if-you-can-keep-it-but?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=7aibo&triedRedirect=true
Fire sale time …
That's $ straight into the American economy.
Having said that people aren't risking it now.
Border patrol is unpredictable.
2 Canadians who attend Boston University returning home for break were pulled over, grilled for an hour, then finger printed for no reason.
Who wants to go through that
Then other countries know who the Nazi sympathizers are and to not let them in.
Living in LV since the 90s, we often are the first to feel economic impacts, and the last to recover.
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