Why would anyone want to go to America atm?
this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2025
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We're very welcoming to sexual predators. Seems like the US is the Mecca for pedophiles and child traffickers lately.
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Well, give it a bit more time and the US dollar will be quite cheap compared to your local currency.
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they are detaining anything criticising trump, plus its good talking points for anti-immigration and foreigners for thier stupid base.
Any American who has crossed the border in the last couple of years does know, and the CBP were cracking down even during Biden's admin.
That is why many USians are also not traveling abroad during Trump's regime, because we would have to come back in through those same checks under his admin.
I mean, for those USians who have plans to come back...
There is nothing worth coming here for. This place is not a place of honor... nothing valued is here.
Which, obviously, is causing tourism to fall into a giant crater.
And our Dear Leader is simultaneously whining about how bad all these “foreign invaders” are, while also being furious at how tourism revenue has fallen off a cliff because of the “woke mind virus” or some other idiocy like that.
What a time to be alive.
In many of the cases we here it's not the rapist or murders but the minor paper work mistakes that get you locked up. One tick can get you gitmoed.
Father in law, an engineer in his early sixties has been declining jobs his company had lined up for him in the US. He's worried what being detained for a few days without his meds would do to him.