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The whole point of the visa waiver program is to make travel frictionless, you just get on a plane and go -- and then here comes ESTA, wasting peoples time and
by PostOnce 9y ago
The whole point of the visa waiver program is to make travel frictionless, you just get on a plane and go -- and then here comes ESTA, wasting peoples time and money with fruitless bureaucracy again.
I wonder how many Swiss and Japanese terrorists have had their plots foiled due to the life-saving shield of ESTA.
How is this not a violation of whatever agreements all these other countries signed to let us in without any paperwork, and yet they have to file paperwork to get into the USA?
Maybe next we can quarantine all new arrivals for 72 hours in some kind of security camp, where they'll endure an arduous interview process to make sure they're safe -- run by highly qualified TSA geniuses.
- nippples 9y agoThe meaning of "Swedish", "German", "French" and "British" for example isn't so clear any longer after EU's happy unlimited-immigration-with-no-questions programme was enacted by Merkel. Globalism is a great thing. You just have to be more attentive as a pedestrian.
- detaro 9y agoPassports are a thing and border controls tend to look at them.
- matthewmacleod 9y agoEU's happy unlimited-immigration-with-no-questions programme was enacted by Merkel. That’s not a thing. There are enough real problems without making more of them up.
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- zegl 9y agoA majority of immigrants/refugees to the EU are not citizens of the EU, and do therefore not have a EU passport.
- ubernostrum 9y agoAs I said in the prior thread, I'm still betting on this being a clerical error. I -- US citizen -- was once almost denied boarding of an international flight because the airline's system had screwed up my passport information, and they thought I would need a visa to return to the US (and of course I didn't have a visa). I found this out at the airport. Luckily I was able to get it resolved in time by showing the airline agents my passport, and a supervisor was able to override or correct something to let me get a boarding pass, but relying on the kindness and competence of front-line airport staff is risky at best. I might just as easily have encountered someone who would tell me "The computer says no, and I can't do anything for you when the computer says no".