@RustyRing @kims it’s only when you’ve experienced Immigration from the outside that you realise what absolute bastards they are. And that’s not just America. The UK is just as bad.

And of course, now under Trump they feel empowered. They are completely unrestrained and untouchable.

@funguy2playwith @kims

Yikes. A great way to cut carbon emissions though.

‘For the US economy, much is at stake, with the inbound travel market a major revenue-earner worth $155 billion in overseas visitor expenditure, and with millions of Americans employed in the tourism industry.

‘In 2024, before the Trump administration took office and introduced its extreme version of enhanced vetting, more than 710,000 Australians visited the US, a nearly 17 per cent increase on the previous year.

‘Now the giant French hotel multinational Accor has warned that bookings from Europe to the US for this northern summer’s high season are down 25 per cent. Airlines such as the UK-based Virgin Atlantic are also sounding the alarm to investors.
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‘Extraordinarily, in the past week, experts, via the pages of The New York Times and The Washington Post, have been recommending that foreign travellers at least delete “anything you wouldn’t want someone to read or see from your device before visiting the US”.’

#USPol #Cruises #BorderSecurity #USTravelWarning #AustralianTravellers #MafiaDon #Accor #Traveller #Travel #GlobalHeating #ClimateEmergency #EUPol #VirginAtlantic

@chozari @kims

There was a time when the USA was the holy land for medical research and a massive brain drain saw the best talent leaving Australia and heading state side.

Everything is going in reverse since November. Stunning how quickly things can change.

I still find it difficult to fathom that anybody fell for this conman the first time around, let alone chose him over someone as talented as VP Kamala Harris.

#USPol