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Congress Considers Forcing Travel Registration
macduffman writes "Congress and the Department of Homeland Security are considering several new visa restrictions, including forcing some foreign travelers to register their travel plans online 48 hours in advance. Business advocacy groups are worried about both foreign relations and the economic impact of such legislation, while privacy concerns see this as another possible 'in' for identity thieves. From the article: 'Along with online registration, the updated program would require new and existing member countries to improve data-sharing; more rigorously report lost and stolen passports (not just blank passports); and guarantee they will repatriate nationals if those people are ordered out of the United States. "It's really a 21st-century model," said James Carafano, a Heritage Foundation analyst who specializes in homeland security. "It'll all be done electronically and biometrically. And it really doesn't compromise your privacy."'"
Visiting the usa again got less desire-able.
Given your apparent opinion of us I don't think you'll be missed. You sound like the Euoropean equivalent of the "ugly american". I've had stopovers in LAX returning from international travel. The only irritating thing was the line at the food court.
While it would be nice to block all Muslim travelers to the US, it isn't going to fly with the more PC folks. "Racial profiling" would be shouted out everywhere, even if it is far closer to "religious profiling".
If you were Jewish and ran into a neo-Nazi, would you invite them to your house? Do KKK members regularly visit Black churches in the South? So what would be wrong with telling Muslim's they aren't wanted? Especially when we have mosques in the US that preach how it is the duty of every Muslim to kill infidels - like the other people outside the mosque that live in the US.
Muslim? Go visit somewhere else. You see, we can't tell the "radical fundamentalists" apart from the "moderate Muslims" that supposedly are in the majority. It's like the old rule of treating every gun as if it is loaded.
BTW: No mention of other nations' citizenry and/or their humanity was made, so appeals to emotion based on a strawman argument doesn't wash. Deal.
* Proposed? Great - so what branch of government is DHS again, and when did they get to create/codify law?
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
Sorry we can't accommodate your white Anglo-Saxon European ass. Unfortunately in our country we can't discriminate, which means we can't approve people from countries that have well established security.
We're forced to tighten the northern borders of our country which we have friendly relationships with, but the southern border needs to be an open gate, because nothing wrong ever goes down there. No one would try smuggling in anything or anyone from Mexico, right? We have to allow any cuban refugee residency in America if they get here, but hard working immigrants from other countries have to go through a million steps to get even a working visa. We will ignore the fact a black man kills a white man and claims self defense, but a white police officer, someone who has sworn to protect our people who even acts rudely to a black man, or even tries to defend himself is a racist bigoted animal that needs to be put down.
As you see we are a country that is so involved in not appearing biased that we fuck ourselves over. But at the same time I have one question. Why if we are so bad do we still have a thriving tourism industry, do people still want to come to america? We barely produce anything worthwhile, we import almost everything, so what's the point? The point is even if we suck, we're still number one, which makes me ask what's wrong with your corner of the world?
Besides with the real question is if you know about your little convention already, it's more than 2 days away, is it that you can't even be hassled enough with planning a trip more than 48 hours in advance? If that's the case we don't need your negative political ideology/hatred and contempt for our people/lazy ways. We have enough of those already here. Hell we have enough of them in our government on both sides of the isle already. Personally I say good riddens if a little inconvenience for you means you don't want to come back.