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... And the 50 millions yearly tourists be damned. Too bad for them if they are stricken by tornadoes or floods or hurricanes or...

In the end it is pure xenophobia. Pure, cruel xenophobia, putting people in harm's way because you couldn't care less about them.

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> ... And the 50 millions yearly tourists be damned.

It does seem like the plan is to slash that number too, and they're succeeding.

If you can afford to travel to the US, you can afford a cell phone with access to the huge variety of free and accurate translation apps.

Very useful when the network and power lines are down. You've never been in a distater zone, have you?

What scenario do you imagine where you're in a disaster zone in a foreign country with a different native language, with no access to network or power, and that country is somehow providing you translated emergency weather announcements in your own language?

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