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Anne Welborn's avatar

Our Foreign Affairs Ministry here in New Zealand has updated travel warnings for the US. It warns that Kiwis could be detained, deported and banned from re-entering the US if they are judged to have breached entry conditions by border officials. Over the past three months 17 New Zealand citizens have needed to seek assistance from the ministry due to having immigration difficulties. Personally I think you would have to be nuts to want to go to the US with the way things are. If you are outside the US that's be best place to be.

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Terrance Ó Domhnaill's avatar

I have been warning readers and listeners for several months now that it is dangerous to come to the U.S. for any reason, even if you're a citizen living outside of the country. I've heard stories of citizens returning from abroad that are critical of Israel, advocate for the Palestinians, or anything in that media level being detained and interrogated. I will not let my wife leave the country right now as I'm afraid they won't let her back in. They might not let me back in due to my activism. At the minimum I can expect to be interrogated.

I am traveling across the country right now on a month long vacation and I am fully armed, with both guns and citizenship documents in case we get stopped along the way. I'm very anxious as I travel the interstates of the U.S. right now. Especially when I am seeing an inordinate amount of state police on all of the interstates I've driven across to date. And this is the middle of the week.

The U.S. is fast approaching critical mass towards authoritarianism. I think we'll see it come to fruition before Trump's term is up, unless the feckless democrats finally grow some stones and take back the government before Trump eliminates free and fair elections before 2026.

For right now, keep your heads down and your powder dry.

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