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"President Trump has been in office for less than three months but has already managed to alienate all of America’s closest allies. Sometimes that alienation has come in the form of threats to invade sovereign territory, like in Canada, Greenland, and Panama. Other times, it’s more of a blanket 'fuck you' to America’s geopolitical allies with threats of tariffs. And at the border, horror stories emerge daily of people trying to enter the U.S. and being abused in ways they hadn’t been before Trump took power again in January.
All of that turmoil and uncertainty has forced people who previously would’ve welcomed a trip to the U.S. into rethinking their plans. Many researchers in Australia have decided it’s no longer smart to travel to the U.S., given the rise of fascism that could endanger their own health and well-being. The Society for Social Studies of Science decided to turn its own conference into a hybrid in-person and remote event, according to the Guardian, given the threat Trump poses to personal liberty. People are being monitored for their disabilities at the U.S. border, according to the Guardian, and border agents are checking medications, ostensibly to see if they match a given disability.
The way that Trump and Elon Musk are currently destroying the U.S. government is also playing into the calculations foreign researchers are making about their interactions with Americans. Countless research grants have been canceled, making a trip to the U.S. unnecessary even for people who may be willing to risk traveling to the country. Even researchers with strong ties to the U.S. are opting to look to other countries for jobs, as Reuters reports, because work is simply drying up."
https://gizmodo.com/visitors-to-u-s-take-extreme-precautions-as-trump-continues-march-of-fascism-2000589040