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In fairness, VWP travel to the US in circumstances that mean you might be considered to be working there has not been a good idea under any administration. If y
by gnfargbl 2y ago
In fairness, VWP travel to the US in circumstances that mean you might be considered to be working there has not been a good idea under any administration. If you're a professional tattoo artist and you arrive for a month with tattoo equipment and the stated intent of "making art" during that time, it's pretty clear what you're going to be doing.
What is concerning here, as an occasional bona fide business visitor to the US, is that it was always my expectation that if I were refused for some reason then I would just find myself turned around and placed on the next flight back. Seeing someone held in a private, for-profit, detention centre for an extended time period is not the behaviour I had previously expected from the US. It is a worry.
- jstummbillig 2y agoI guess you might call that deterrence
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- suddenlybananas 2y agoIt's wildly disproportionate however.
- est31 2y agoShe tried to enter the USA from Tijuana. From what I read, they are extra strict at the land border to Mexico. General advice to tourists that I read is to not to enter the USA from there. Environments always determine how law enforcement treats you. If you are in a place where there is many poor people, you will get a different treatment compared to one for rich people.
- soneil 2y agoI have a sibling who was deported from the US (long, stupid story). There was a 6 month gap from when we'd been told he'd been deported, to when he was actually deported. And this was 15-20 years ago, it's not a recent change. It is absolutely a system that's designed to disappear people. It's just headcount for income, no-one cares who those heads belong to.