Someone on the previous thread about this was arguing that the EU should start imposing the same sorts of border checks that the US does to EU citizens, on US c

Someone on the previous thread about this was arguing that the EU should start imposing the same sorts of border checks that the US does to EU citizens, on US citizens coming into the EU. The theory being that this sort of tit-for-tat approach would encourage US citizens so inconvenienced would shout for change at home. Your post though, I think, outlines the flaw in this argument. Which is that most people don't know the rules of entry for foreign visitors to their own country, and wouldn't therefore know how onerous it is. Why would a US passport holder (by birth, of whom I assume there are a lot more than people who've acquired one after immigrating) have any clue what I, as a UK citizen, need to do in order to spend my vacation or whatever in Miami? I'm certainly hazy on what the current rules are for US citizens to come to the UK. I think we have a visa-waiver programme in place, but I don't know what it entails at all, and whether it's already as terrible for US citizens coming here as it is for me going to the US. So instigating those sorts of changes here is probably unlikely to have the effect that poster was hoping for. Hmm. This turned into a much longer ramble than I thought it would.