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FWIW, be very careful booking windsurfing trips to the US.
Countries are starting to issue travel warnings after people from western countries are being detained and locked up. seems US immigration policies have become stricter and not everyone is welcome anymore.
They banned wingdingers because they're not sure if they are a windsurfer or kitesurfer.
Formal warning issued today in the NL: do not go to the US when you have an X in your passport.
I'm a boring hetero guy. But disgusted at this repeat of the nazi time.
2025 is the new 1933.
Boycot the swasticar.
This issue is not one to joke about. Anyone traveling to the US must realize that having a visa does not mean you will actually be able to enter the US, since border agents have the power to invalidate visas. When this happens, you enter a status without any legal protections. There are lots of documented cases where tourists from Europe or Canada were denied entry, and then put in detention for weeks. For people from middle or south American countries, detention can be many months. Tourists have been put in detention even when they offer to pay for the flight back to their home country. Here's one chilling story: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-detained-us-immigration-jasmine-mooney
The reason why entry to the US is denied, and those trying to enter with a valid visa are put in detention, vary. In one case, a person with poor English answered the question where he lived wrong, giving the US address he was traveling to instead of his home address. In several other cases, the US border agent came to the conclusion that the tourists were trying to enter the US to work there, revoked their visa, and detained them (for multiple weeks). There are also cases where visas were revoked, and entry denied, after border agents searched phones and computers, and discovered photos or posts that they deemed incriminating. Not giving border agents access to phones and computers is also a reason to deny entry to visa holders.
For most tourist who never traveled to the Middle East or countries that have been or will be affected by US visa bans, entry in the US with a valid visa will not be a problem, as long as you never overstayed a visa in the US during a previous visit (which is a reason to deny entry, even if you received a new visa after that). Another reason to deny entry is any criminal conviction (including DUI and minor drug charges).
A lot of the horror stories with denied entry and long detentions are from tourists trying the enter the US at the border to Mexico. Keep that in mind if you're going for a trip to Baja, and want to add some time visiting the US afterwards. Is it worth the risk?
Hahaha
Go to Cuba or Venezuela instead.
AP is propanganda from the left.
Australia is better, locked up people for 2 wks thrn they travelled here even not sick (w tests etc).
Sad to know 80% of the people here still support those measures.
You guys cant look beyond your own belly.
There's a summary of recent cases at www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-detention-centres-american-citizens-tourists-b2720960.html which includes 3 cases of German citizens. One (Lucas Sielaff) was detained for 2 weeks after giving a wrong answer; one (Jessica Br?sche) was detained for more than 6 weeks because the immigration agent determined that she planned to work in the US; and the third person (Fabian Schmidt) was a green card holder who was detained at the beginning of March and likely will remain in detention until a hearing in June.
All those cases have been widely reported in the media in Europe, which will certainly have an effect on tourism. Why risk indeterminate detention in private jails when you can go to Australia, Brazil, the Caribbean, or plenty of other places where a visa means that you can actually enter the country?
And another one (from www.dw.com/en/german-nationals-us-immigration-detained-interrogation-ice-donald-trump/a-71987211):
"Celine Flad, 22, is another German who found herself at the mercy of an unclear border situation when she tried to go on vacation in New York and Miami. The university student told Der Spiegel that despite having a valid passport and an ESTA waiver, she was told there was a "problem" with her passport. She was held for 24 hours, during which she was repeatedly asked why she wanted to enter the US.
Flad added that the officers took her smartphone and searched through her pictures. Despite showing officials her hotel bookings in New York and Miami, and her flight tickets on to Cancun, Mexico, she was told she was being sent back to Germany as soon as possible. She was never told what the issue was."
And:
"The four Germans are hardly the only tourists and US residents who have found themselves caught in a Kafkaesque situation with ICE following US President Donald Trump's recent crackdown on immigration. ... The situation has gotten to the point where the Foreign Ministry in Berlin has issued an advisory to its citizens planning a trip to the US, stressing that holding a US visa or entry waiver does not guarantee access for German citizens."
Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
Step out of line, the men come and take you away
We better stop
Hey, what's that sound?
Everybody look, what's going down?
Vacation wherever you want. What does this have to do with windsurfing anyway? ( this is still a windsurfing fourm )
that's the point,
when vacationing in America one can no longer vacation wherever they want. they may even be locked up for weeks without legal review.
i was pretty clear in my first post.
"be very careful booking windsurfing trips to the US." that would be what it has to do with windsurfing.
2025 the new 1933.
In 1933, the majority of people also thought nothing special was happening.
Fall to nazism didn't happen in one big bang. But in a series of small steps.
The pace at which these steps are set in Muskland, is terrifying.
The "project 2025" playbook (900 pages) is carried out to the letter.
That is why it was so easy, to build a tracker. This has been prepared in 2 years time by hundreds of people (heritage foundation).
www.project2025.observer/
Dutch journalist Kirsten Verdel is keeping a diary (google translated NL > ENG)
reportersonline-nl.translate.goog/besluiten-trump-impact/?_x_tr_sl=nl&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=nl&_x_tr_pto=wapp
But her emails
x.com/mkraju/status/1904264536519061667
I'll stay out of the political discussion but 100% agree that this is following the 1923 Nazi Party playbook just at a much faster speed. And just like Germans in 1933 the majority of Americans seem to be ok with whats happening in their country today.
Before you know it those Tesla Optimus robots are going to muscle in on every good wave break. Dropping in ,slashing tyres in the car park and all.FFS
You guys still jack off to Mr Mc clown...your daddy....but he then was so tired he had to abandon you to make millions and not respond to his excesses when the time was up.
You should all still wear masks so we can spot you and make distance from you. Get an extra boost, get your tests etc to help them get rid of the 6 warehouses full of the useless pieces we all paid.
Complaining about inflation? Please dont. Your support to all free market disruption actions fuelled it and validate irresponsible political leaders drunk on power.
Explain to your sons and grandkids your stupidity helped create the economic mess we are all in.
