Only in America

[JimC]

Tourism from Western countries is way down in the US. Another example of Trump shooting the US in the foot.

I'm sure that will change as Russians realise that the US is open to them...

[Cunt]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-17/ ... /105136846

There have been many reports of travellers, including Australians, being forced to allow US border officers to open up their phones, which are checked for political stuff. They are then refused entry...

If you are planning a trip to the United States, consider taking a temporary or disposable "burner" phone, printing out bank statements and creating detailed itinerary plans.

These are some of the tips immigration lawyers say could help when facing scrutiny from US border security.

They also warn about getting "entrapped", and admitting to activities such as illicit drug use.

As the Trump administration continues its immigration crackdown, fears have been growing about "enhanced vetting" at airports.

No visa guarantees entry into the US, and border officials have broad powers to detain non-citizens and turn them away.

I think Australians considering a tourist trip to the US should instead think Canada orJapan or Outer Mongolia...

I've been wondering what they do about international travelers, coming through Canada, having some (legal for recreation) weed and forgetting some in their luggage on the way to the next country.

Guess if it is the US, they'll call it gang activity.

[Tero]

Failed terrorist left no manifesto
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/16/us/vance ... -takeaways
Victims died for being democrats.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Supposedly this wasn't going to happen. Deporting Afghans who worked with the US Army as interpreters. The Trump administration doesn't care apparently. Brown foreigner = bad hombre

'ICE Detains U.S. Army Interpreter at Routine Asylum Hearing'

ICE agents arrested a former interpreter for the U.S. Army after he attended his asylum hearing in San Diego.

The man, who reportedly risked his life to aid American troops in Afghanistan for three years, was placed in handcuffs by a pair of immigration officers who concealed their faces with neck gaiters.

His arrest was captured on camera, with the agents moving to cuff him as soon as he walked out of a hearing on the fourth floor of a downtown courthouse, the Times of San Diego reported.

“Yeah, get him,” one agent says to another. “Take him. Go ahead, take him.”

The former interpreter appeared shocked by what was playing out.

“I came here to make a better life,” the man pleaded in the clip. “I didn’t know that this would happen… I worked with the U.S. military. I worked in a very dangerous part of Afghanistan with the U.S. military.”

Attorney Brian McGoldrick asked that his client’s name be kept anonymous because he will likely face persecution by the Taliban if he is ultimately deported to Afghanistan. McGoldrick told the Times that the man was a translator for American troops but also assisted the U.S. Army logistically on the ground in a war zone.

[JimC]

"Gratitude is a disease of dogs"

Joseph Stalin

[Svartalf]

unfortunately

[Tero]

Qasim Rashid, Esq.
@QasimRashid@mastodon.social
A brief history of gun control in America:

NRA: We need unlimited firearms to stop tyrannical government

Black people: Sounds good, we are open carrying in California

NRA: Not so fast. We're banning firearms

[ICE raids California, targets Black and brown people with illegal arrests]

Black and brown people: Hey NRA, here's that tyrannical government you mentioned

NRA: Oh, we meant tyranny against white people. We're perfectly good with fascists targeting you

The End

[Tero]

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/loca ... 011/?amp=1
How soon till Trump pardons them?

Victim Omar Guandique was too emotional to speak with News4 as he left court on Thursday, video shows. Last year at his home, after weeks in the hospital, he showed us the wounds from three bullets Cornett fired into his body. His friend and colleague also was shot and badly injured.

The gunfire came after Cornett targeted the men as they drove along Interstate 95 and tracked them to a gas station. He asked them where they were from and how long they had been in the country. Then he opened fire.

The men are pleased by the life sentence Cornett received, Guandique’s brother Kevin Laren said.

“On the one hand, it broke us seriously, because of the injuries suffered by my brother. But we are happy because justice prevailed, which is what we wanted. A crime like this can’t go unpunished,” he said in Spanish.

Cornett pleaded guilty in April to six charges. An aggravated malicious wounding charge carried a possible life sentence.

Commonwealth’s Attorney for Spotsylvania County Ryan Mehaffey sought the maximum sentence.

“Mr. Cornett and his actions just caused terrible fear and horror in the Hispanic community in Spotsylvania, and he acted out of what can only be described as extreme hatred,” he said.

Guandique told the judge that with his injuries, he can’t do the work he previously did to support his family. Victim Jesus Martinez is still undergoing surgeries.