Originally Posted by
FriendlyPilot
This didn't happen.
The policy you are referring to was in place for all 4 years of the Biden Administration and there were about 40,000 searches a year of their mobile devices and social media posts. Every one of them that were detained was because the person was on a watchlist etc and the only people were denied was not just because they "didn't like the current administration".
In an average year there are about 400,000 denied entry into the US. Most require no searches. They don't meet the entry requirements. In 2024, Biden's last year, there were over 1.2M people denied entry.
So please spare us the "this administration" because this is just how US policy works, and even if one or two people are sent back because they hate Trump it doesn't move the needle compared to the number of people we deny entry to every year.
What sort of watchlist are they on? Do you think it is appropriate for the government to keep watchlists of journalists that point out how Israel is committing a genocide? Is there a watchlist of French Scientists that espouse informed opinions on how bad US policies are? Why are conservatives such snowflakes that can't handle even the slightest criticism? It's interesting that you're equivocating illegal immigrants being turned away with the tourists and professionals booking $1500 tickets to fly on our airline. There's a bit of a difference there. For every person who is turned away for the awful offense of saying Elon Musk is full of ****, how many hundreds or thousands of full fare paying passengers
I hate too break it to you. Trump's approval rating in the US is at 58%. Are you going to ban 58% of America from coming back home? And what do you think the disapproval rating is overseas? Obviously approval rating on POTUS are less common for overseas countries, but the highest approval rating I can find in Europe is Romania at 30%. And the wealthier Western Europe nations are mostly in the teens, led by the ULK at 22%. So are we going to ban 70% of Europe from coming to the US? What impact do you think that will have on our profit sharing?
https://www.travelweekly-asia.com/Tr...al-media-posts
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...ntist-detained
https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/j...at-us-airport/
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2...ries-stand-out