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US plans to review up to five years of the social media history of foreign travelers (english.elpais.com)
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[โ€“] hector@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Business is the other good reason to visit. Just make sure you aren't involved in hemp or politics or any number of other things if you feel you must travel for business.

There was a woman last year from canada, on a valid visa, they revoked it without telling her after she was over here, told her she had to show up to a location to straighten out some problem, then grabbed her and locked her up for weeks, over a month I think, because of her involvement with a hemp company in Canada presumably. Her politics probably played a role in truth though.

She had money to go home, they wouldn't let her. She came legally, they went out of their way to revoke it in a way that allowed them to lock her up indefinitely. She only was allowed to buy her ticket back home after the media reported on her story, and she wasn't alone. Several Canadians and Europeans, some for an expansive definition of working, for those without work visas that visit. The girl that brought her tattoo gun, the girl that came here to housesit as part of her travel, the transgender from germany, forget what that was but similar bullshit.

If the media didn't pick up on their cases, left to their own devices the administration would've deported them to El Salvador or Somalia or something out of general mean spiritedness despite having no good reason to want to hurt them. These are all white people too, this isn't a minority only problem, the administration desperately wants to unleash the national security state against white do gooders in the US and West.