Advice to potential tourists to the USA:

[MineralMan]

Whatever nation you call home, please reconsider your plans. The United States is currently led by a xenophobic President. He has appointed as the head of the agency that runs our Customs and Border Protection (GBP) a man who was once in charge of the Guantanamo Bay prison.

Currently, some travelers from all nations are being subjected to extensive interrogations at entry points, and are often required to open their cell phone accounts for examination. Many are being turned away and forced to return to their countries.

These new measures appear to be escalating, and may soon be expanded further. It may be wise at this time to plan to travel to a different destination for tourist visits. This cautionary message may be necessary until the current President is no longer in office.

As a citizen of the USA, I offer my sincere apologies for the current conditions here. I will do all in my power to Make America Friendly Again.

I hope I will be able to greet you here again soon.

[brooklynite]

1. Absolutely not!

It's nice to make a political statement, but there's a good share of the population in popular destination whose income is based on foreign tourism.

[Fred Sanders]

2. Maybe folks of colour should proceed into America with caution, more so than some others.

[MineralMan]

3. OK, but my advice stands. The tourism industry needs

to communicate those concerns to the Trump administration. I'm addressing potential tourists.

[geek tragedy]

7. Would you advise people to plan vacations here, if they were anything

but lily white Anglos?

Trump isn't done making it more difficult to visit here--he's in the process of gutting the visa waiver program.

[Hortensis]

10. Well,half of them are conservatives, for whom negative

consequences to their choices would not be a wholly bad thing. But people are, of course, already making their own decisions.

[TeamPooka]

19. Tourism is already down and will drop further. But Tourism isn't the only industry Trump will tank

over the next 4 years.

[OliverQ]

4. Tourism is down

Flights headed for the US are already down at least 17%. People are rethinking coming here in the current political climate.

[MineralMan]

6. Those people are wise to do so.

Dangerous unrest is possible in some places as well in the near future. I would not travel here if I lived in another country until the situation is more stable.

[phylny]

18. Hell, even I refuse to vacation in Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, or Georgia.

This year, we went to Antigua.

Obviously it's not for the same reasons, but honestly, I'm not financially rewarding places that vote red.

[asiliveandbreathe]

5. The USA hasn't made the list YET!

https://travel.state.gov/content/passports/en/alertswarnings.html


We issue a Travel Warning when we want you to consider very carefully whether you should go to a country at all. Examples of reasons for issuing a Travel Warning might include unstable government, civil war, ongoing intense crime or violence, or frequent terrorist attacks.

[MineralMan]

9. That's possible here too, particularly for people of color.

Recent attacks on Sikhs and others who wear unusual clothing have occurred.

[GP6971]

8. US Naturalized citizens

also need to be concerned when exiting / re-entering the country. It's gotten to the point that I've asked my wife, who is a Naturalized US citizen, to carry her US Passport with her at all times. At first she dismissed it and I think she is now coming around.

[MineralMan]

11. Good advice.

For the time being, I suggest that naturalized citizens, particularly those of color, not leave the country until things have stabilized.

[GP6971]

13. I agree

and it's not only POC and Muslims. I'm hearing the Korean community in LA is really concerned. And we here in the PNW have a large Korean population.

[MineralMan]

14. Yes. If things ramp up in PRNK,

Koreans may become targets of bigotry, more than now.

[GP6971]

16. I used to say don't worry about all the sabre rattiling

from the nkpr. When I was stationed there as well as my son, I used to say only worry when the State Dept. orders the evacuation of dependents and non-essential personal. Today, I'm not so sure with so many key State positions unfilled and 45 so unhinged.

This idiot can get a lot of US citizens and South Koreans killed and I don't mean Kim Jong Un.

[Ligyron]

12. I think that's probably good advice.

I'm worried about my daughter getting back in and she was born here.

[MineralMan]

15. She'll probably be OK, I think.

[a la izquierda]

17. I'm in Bolivia currently...

And am a bit concerned about going back home this weekend.