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> Something along these lines (although by far not that bad) happened to me when I traveled to NYC for vacation of New Years Eve 2016/2017(this was before Trump
by rhapsodic 10y ago
> Something along these lines (although by far not that bad) happened to me when I traveled to NYC for vacation of New Years Eve 2016/2017(this was before Trump took office).
Incidents like this have probably happened hundreds of thousands of times throughout history, at customs checkpoints for many different countries. But now that Donald Trump is the president of the United States, a certain percentage of the ones that pertain to entry into the US will become international news stories that will routinely make it to the front page of HN.
- strictnein 10y agoAnecdotal incident: My friends and I were held for 2+ hours driving into Canada once, ~16 years ago. All 4 of us were questioned separately. Vehicle repeatedly searched very thoroughly. shrug I've always chalked it up to it being a fairly boring and unrewarding job and they made a wrong judgement on who we might be or something.
- timeu 10y agoI still think that it became "worse" over time although and that's started to happen way before Trump. I February 2002 I traveled to NYC and back then I had a glaring visa stamp from Iran on the first page of my passport. At the border control the officer asked me about that visa and why I had it. I told him that I was visiting relatives and he was satisfied with that answer. Approx. 2 years ago I was traveling to Boston and then had another check at the border and this time I was asked some basic questions (where I go, what my purpose of visit, etc) for 10 minutes in a separate room. The last visit to NYC in 2016 was a thorough 40 minute of questioning. So in my experience it definitely got "worse"