It's true that this was happening already for less privileged people entering the US (esp non-white, muslim-looking immigrants from poorer, non-western countrie

It's true that this was happening already for less privileged people entering the US (esp non-white, muslim-looking immigrants from poorer, non-western countries), and def not just in the US. Nobody should actually think that the US now is doing sth nobody else did to anybody, and other western democracies are saints in how they have been treating these people. I guess this specific part is "news" because it shows that it is also happening -to an extent- to more privileged people now, which was less of a thing right now. It is not about a shock or whatever, but about learning a shift in certain policies that informs some people (closer to the audience of this site even) of how the current situation shifts in order to be able to make an informed risk assessment over a possibility of traveling to the US. This way, one can in a more informed way decide if traveling to the US right now is worth the whatever risks vs the desired outcome. I assume part of the whole ordeal is exactly about this in the first place, to discourage some groups(?) of people from attempting to enter the US. I also assume that there is indeed some change in this situation wrt european visitors rather than more coverage, because germany actually updated their travel advisory on the US to inform about entering through a visa becoming more strict and uncertain [0]. So while I agree that there is a strong moral issue here wrt to how immigrants are treated, this does not mean that this piece of news does not warrant its own coverage. [0] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/germany-updates-us-travel-advice-after-citizens-detained-2025-03-19/ https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/germany-updates-us-trav...