That said, I think the point of your post (and the original post) is just to call out how ridiculous and sad the US's sudden policy swerve is. One of the most

That said, I think the point of your post (and the original post) is just to call out how ridiculous and sad the US's sudden policy swerve is. One of the most alarming things about this whole issue is that it's taken this long for "normal people" to realise something is wrong and do something about it. We're seeing mass protests now, when large numbers of people are literally being held in handcuffs for extended periods despite obviously doing nothing wrong. However, it's not as if border security at the US (and, to be fair, here in the UK and in various other countries) hadn't completely lost the plot already before Trump arrived. Then again, I have long said things would have to get worse before they got better. Let's hope that at least we have now reached that point and ordinary people start questioning the whole way we look at security again.