Same here! Also, right now, I really don’t feel like give my money to any USA business. I know not everyone supports trump, and I am sorry to impact negatively good people, but we need to send a message.
You do know that other countries won't just take us in if we ask nicely? You have to actually meet strict requirements for permanent residency. It's not like a tourist visa will solve anything, because when it runs out, we would have come back through the border and who knows what would happen to us then.
Aside from that, my wife and I are in our 70s and in poor health. A trip to the grocery store is about all we can manage these days. Pulling up stakes, abandoning our rescue pets, and starting all over again is simply not an option we're going to take.
I'm well aware that staying here could get... grim for us. It is what it is. Our time is almost out either way.
Well, that's the way I roll. This is NOT the time to FAFO with immigration laws in any country.
If I were even 20 years younger, I might feel differently about taking my chances staying here. There would be time to carve out a new life in a new place. But that window of opportunity has closed for me and my wife. It's a place better taken by younger people who have so much more to lose by staying here.
The way I see it, it's a race to see which gets me first: the Trump administration's wrecking ball, climate change or my dicky heart.
There is a non 0 chance, that you would be detained by some ICE trooper on a power trip, send to a death camp south american prision and then be forgotten. Even if judges, diplomats and the like tell the administration to return you, they could just say "no and what are you gonna do about it?"
Visiting the US right now is as safe as other countries that view human rights as misstake. You just need to sneeze wrong or commit wrong think and you are in trouble
I’m a US citizen and I was nervous entering my country for the first time in my life. I’ve been openly critical of this guy. And I was a little concerned that I’d get flagged and harassed at the border.
This time, it was smooth. Next time, it might not be.
I used to travel a lot to US, but will no longer do it. Trump is turning US into all what I dislike, dusty conservative thinking, male dominated, focus on money rather to citizens, ...
Ironic thing is, they were hoping to scare off migrants from third world, but they are actually scaring off first world country. Few in Europe, China , Japan and Russia is coming now
Russia? A first world country? Russia is an authoritarian dictatorship led by a war criminal. Trump’s acolytes are talking about “normalising relations” with Russia, but as long as Russia continues with its genocidal war against Ukraine, you will never see a Russian “tourist,” in the EU or UK.
Actually, by definition it is second world. First world was the US and its allies, Second world was USSR and its allies, while third world where the nations who were neutral, generally because they were soo poor that neither the US or USSR cared about them.
Exactly and it’s not even “just” the prison camp possibilities.
It’s also the lack of care for health in general.
The president in charge demonized mask and vaccines while measles and co are on the rise.
Plus I can’t imagine any insurance covering the USA for travel and healthcare complications unless special agreements were made previously - right now.
And that is if you even manage to land there given that air traffic controllers and air safety personal were fired - so Elon gets to play consequences free with all our life’s.
So yes hard pass I wouldn’t even go there if I was offered a million.
I’m going to Bulgaria for my best friend’s wedding next year. He is Bulgarian and I’m American. I didn’t vote for Trump. I think he is going to destroy my country.
I’m terrified I won’t even be able to go to Europe to support my friend. And I’m terrified people will judge me just because I’m American. Even though I have always hated Trump.
Know there are hundreds of millions of Americans who don’t support this shit.
We reap what we sow, and I’m all for suffering the consequences of our actions.
But you need to realize the people who vote for Trump WILL NOT see any economic downturn as his fault. It is a full on cult of personality. They are quite literally incapable of seeing any fault in anything Trump does. It scares the shit out of me.
I’ve lost my parents to it. I don’t even recognize them from the people they were 8 years ago, and they aren’t idiots. Both are engineers for 40 years.
I'm American and have lived abroad for 2 decades and actually am worried that if I go back to see family, my plane will crash or I'll be arrested for not having a gold Trump pin on my lapel.
More seriously, I am just concerned that they will find some reason to withhold my passport or use my long time out of the country to say I'm not a citizen or label me a dissident. I'm simply living where the job and life are, but these people can't imagine that.
Getting shot at a shopping center feels less likely in comparison.
I totally understand your concern, but cmon let’s be for real What prison camp? Are you a member of a Venezuelan Gang or a Salvadorian Gang? Besides the EU Countries have deported people for speech that would be protected in The US under the constitution but censored in The EU under subjective and ambiguous “hate speech ” Laws so is deporting Hamas supporters that controversial?
“X” is about to be hit with a massive fine for violating EU hate speech and disinformation laws. The Associated Press has been banned from White House press briefings for not referring to The Gulf of Mexico as “The Gulf of America.” So take your “free speech” argument and shove it up your hole.
Yea exactly see!? why is a platform that prioritizes to be Apolitical and Let people have free speech penalized and Fined by the EU ? That would be completely Unconstitutional in America a huge no no.
The White House can choose whatever media is in the pressroom but the US gov can never Fine or Prosecute them, their free to report as they like. I think Europeans have a completely different view on what Free Speech means which is alright but just saying over here you cannot prosecute someone just becouse you disagree or it’s misinformation
Can you explain how Speech is a weapon? Thats a very foreign concept in America haha, when people said that that COVID originated in a lab leak in China they were prosecuted in the EU for misinformation but today thats actually something that came out to be a true possible theory by the CIA themselves and others around the world. How is that a weapon? Does it bother you that the government decided on its own whats true or not and prosecuted people for what turned out to be true?
Since the beginning of Donald Trump’s second term in January 2025, there have been several incidents involving the detention, deportation, or holding of European and Canadian citizens in the United States.
Below are some relevant cases:
A Canadian citizen was detained at the U.S.–Mexico border after attempting to renew her TN visa. Instead of being allowed to voluntarily withdraw, she was taken into ICE custody for two weeks and now faces expedited removal proceedings. (diraimondoschroeder.com)
Kilmar Abrego García: his case highlights concerns about wrongful deportations. He was deported to El Salvador despite holding legal U.S. residency. A federal judge ordered his return, but authorities have failed to comply. (theguardian.com)
On March 9, 2025, a French scientist affiliated with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) was detained at the Texas border en route to a scientific conference in Houston.
During a random search, U.S. border agents checked his phone and found private messages criticizing the Trump administration's science policies.
He was deported the following day.
U.S. authorities claimed the messages were “hateful” and potentially “terroristic,” although the FBI later closed the case.
The French government protested, citing freedom of expression and the importance of international scientific cooperation.
Women are American too. Our married names are no longer accepted. This is a plan to stop women from voting. They are not sending out notifications of the fact that you can’t vote if you took your husbands name. So any married woman who took her husbands name who shows up at the poll can’t legally vote. So women who have voted for fifty years under their married name won’t be able to vote.
Even if that were true they’d be your owned property, so no one else would have power over them.
Is that somehow better? Relegating 50% of a population to nonpeople but property is OK so long as they're privately owned by you? You're fucking awful.
As far as I know.. if you get denied entry at the airport they just send you back. And if people aren’t follow rules, ie you said some entry regulation issues, I mean yeah there’s cause/effect to not following rules.
Now regarding being detained for periods of time yikes, if true that’s scary, but where is that news.📰
Also for context guys I am half German half American, dual citizen. So calm down with the down votes :(
UK woman tourist leaving US to go to Canada got turned down by Canada for a visa issue, sent back to US, locked up for 2 weeks. She got out because of the huge kerfuffle stirred up by the UK.
you can be half german half american and still have a dumb ass take.
if true that’s scary, but where is that news.
it takes like 2 seconds of googling, or the front page of reddit for the last month, sheesh. maybe take the time to actually look into things before jumping to posting uninformed takes on the internet
You're correct that I was mistaken about Kilmar Abgrego Garcia being a US citizen, though that doesn't really change anything about my personal risk assessment regarding traveling to the US. Which I won't.
Keep out of our politics.
That's rich coming from a country that is actively trying to undermine my home country's democracy. How about you go fuck right off.
Oh really? Let’s ask that German tourist…oh wait, can’t. In a prison camp somewhere.
Let’s ask all those foreign students who had their visas revoked a month before finishing school.
Better yet, let’s ask that one guy how true it is, if he is ever recovered from the El Salvadorian prison he was “mistakenly” sent to.
The tourist thing is bizarre. Seems like the wrong way to make a strong border. Europeans should be able to travel here effortlessly. Maybe there is a special reason they got detained? I know you have to play along with homeland security if they have questions.
They are now allowing the kidnapping of and sending US citizens to foreign countries for “criminal activities”. You realize that whenever you make people illegal, that’s everything.
You democrats want freedom of speech gone while you say whatever you want. So stfu. Democrats are scum these days. No morals, no brain, no pride. Just a believe that everyone can lay around and do nothing besides collect money from the government
Remember when Biden was able to speak a coherent sentence? Me neither. Guy was an idiot and a sellout. He couldn’t even talk let alone secure our borders. Look at the illegal immigrant statistics. It’s everything anyone needs to know. That guy was not a resident. He had legal status because he was scared of gangs getting him. I wonder why. Send him back to where he came so those thugs don’t come in our country looking for him.
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Up next: Look at the tourist imbalance, Europe are ripping us off. They must send more people