So last time I visited the US I was fingerprinted and this time I guess I'll have my phone searched.
Nothing says Welcome to our Country like being treated like a criminal.
Nothing says Welcome to our Country like being treated like a criminal.
Does that mean EU treats it's citizens like criminals?
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...
Of course there's no way to verify that, but I generally have a bit more trust in German authoroties.
(you can also travel widely with just an ID card which doesn't get the biometrics, although that does limit you to Europe.)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-25/mem-fox-detained-at-l...
Mem Fox is a world renow children's author* who has travelled to the US 116 times previously, without incident.
Australian author Mem Fox has received a written apology from the United States after what she said was a traumatic detention by immigration officials at Los Angeles Airport.
Fox, who was questioned by Customs and Border Protection officers for two hours earlier this month as she was on her way to Milwaukee to address a conference, said she collapsed and sobbed at her hotel after she was released. She said the border agents appeared to have been given "turbocharged power" by an executive order signed by President Donald Trump to "humiliate and insult" a room full of people they detained to check visas.
"I have never in my life been spoken to with such insolence, treated with such disdain, with so many insults and with so much gratuitous impoliteness," Fox said.
"I felt like I had been physically assaulted which is why, when I got to my hotel room, I completely collapsed and sobbed like a baby, and I'm 70 years old."
Fox, whose books include classics such as Possum Magic and Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes, said she was questioned about her visa status, even though she had travelled to the United States 116 times previously without incident.
"My heart was pounding so hard as I was waiting to be interviewed, because I was observing what was happening to everybody else in the room," she said.
"They accused me of coming in on the wrong visa and they were totally wrong about that.
"The person who interviewed me was heavy with weaponry, was totally dressed in black with the word 'police' in hand-sized letters across his chest."
The author said she was unlikely to visit the United States again despite the friendliness of ordinary Americans.
"At the moment I'm in so much shock about it, I can't imagine going back to the states," she said.
"I'd hate not to go back to the states because it's been so good to me and Americans in general are not [like] the border police at LA airport."
"I thought: 'How can human beings treat other vulnerable human beings in this fashion, in public, in full view of everybody?'
Either the people are innately monsters (i.e. some groups of people can have innate differences from other groups) or the environment breeds monstrosity (i.e. monsters arise wherever policy creates a place like LA). The debate never seems to rise to acknowledging this essential contradiction.