kralcttam ☕
️My niece comes to the U.S. most years from Europe to visit her grandfather.
This year she was stopped at the airport, taken into an interrogation room, accused of being a prostitute, had her phone taken and scanned, and released.
You know, in case you were wondering why tourism to the U.S. is down.
@kralcttam@mastodon.social If I ever travel outside the US again, before I get on the return flight, I'll wipe my phone, since I have a nice backup on the cloud, go through customs, and then restore.
... that's if I'm allowed back in the States again. You know ... because ... reasons ...
millennial fulcrum@kralcttam@mastodon.social the new America is eager to die.
kralcttam ☕️@falcennial@mastodon.social This isn’t even a bad story. She wasn’t imprisoned for 30 days or shipped off to a camp. She was only incommunicado for an hour.
But it’s senseless. Does she have a criminal record? No. Does she have a pattern of making the same trip annually since birth? Yes.
Message is clear, “Don’t come here.”
kralcttam ☕️@falcennial@mastodon.social This isn’t even a bad story. She wasn’t imprisoned for 30 days or shipped off to a camp. She was only incommunicado for an hour.
But it’s senseless. Does she have a criminal record? No. Does she have a pattern of making the same trip annually since birth? Yes.
Message is clear, “Don’t come here.”