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Maybe it's the right thread to ask:
We will be flying from Europe to Central America in a few months.
On the flight there, we have s stop in Houston Texas.
Do I need to worry just about the transit?
If I would actually need to go the USA at the moment, I would have a completely empty smartphone and laptop.
But do I need to worry about the transit?
Edit: obviously I don't plan to do anything illegal, I'm just a tourist. But after all the stories, I'm getting a bit worried
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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...
they are detaining anything criticising trump, plus its good talking points for anti-immigration and foreigners for thier stupid base.
There is nothing worth coming here for. This place is not a place of honor... nothing valued is here.
Not true I've heard about this in many twitter screenshots posted online
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.