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Initially some American prison then deported to some random country based on what he appeared to be to the racist in command in charge of making this decision

*Central American prison.

Nah, couldn't be the illegal imprisonment and torture random citizens and tourists have been experiencing.

Sometimes they detain people as they are trying to leave the US.

Man, I was going to go to a wedding there that was super important to me but now I'm SO torn.

Come visit Canada instead (: pretty much the same, but you won't be detained at the border.

I will not be going back there until shit calms down.

Don't expect it for a long time. You talk about the Erasmus to teach people they're just like everyone else to prevent an internal war.

Here in the states, I honest to god cannot see how our two sides can come to a peaceful resolution and that terrifies me.

Travelling to the USA right now sounds absolutely insane. Like who would even consider it?

You get to the airport. Then you have to unlock your phone and let a random moron sift through its contents.

It’s literally a recipe for disaster/arrest. The cops over there are fucking deranged. Sorry for any good ones. But you’re like the 1%. Police brutality in the USA is shocking to Europeans. I would be scared to be pulled over. Am I getting a ticket or a headshot/arrested for years?

Also I could imagine that if you refuse to unlock the phone, you’ll also be arrested. And by „I could imagine“ I mean 100% sure.

They could plant anything in there or claim they found terroristic messages. No thanks.

The USA are like Russia and Iran now.

And to think that, as a teen, I actually dreamed of moving there. Good lord thanks mom and dad for telling me it’s a fucking stupid idea. I would regret it now.

Go home and campaign for your leftist party to protect yourselves from the disease.

Somehow, Nazis have returned.

Most of the trips that have happened in February and March were planned and often paid for before that time and couldn't easily be changed or cancelled so many went ahead. There will be a continuing drop off. Airlines are reassigning their planes because so few Canadians are booking trips to the USA, even as a stopover to anther country. Some border businesses have already lost 50% or more of their business.

it's only been 2 months

Not anymore, Canada has its elbows up.

People book vacations like that well in advance. So there’s a time delay between the bookings and drop. Yesterday I read an article about Dutch travel agencies seeing far less bookings for US holidays. In january they saw a 20 percent drop, but they didn’t have February figures yet.

So by the end of this year, the tourism decrease will likely be much higher.

The one thing that really came home to me traveling in the US was how unbelievably different different parts of it are. If you were an alien or otherwise didn't know where the borders of countries were you would not believe that Florida and DC could possibly belong to the same country they're so completely different in culture.

I honestly think that's part of the problem the US has, they only have two parties and that's nowhere near enough diversity to cover all of the different kinds of cultures the US has. I have to imagine people in North Dakota have completely different priorities to people in California. Yet there's absolutely no political recognition of that.