The Trump administration is proposing to ask visitors from several dozen nations that enjoy visa-free travel to the U.S. to submit additional personal information before entering the country, including five years of their social media history, the Department of Homeland Security said in a notice this week.

Citizens of 42 countries enrolled in the visa waiver program can generally come to the U.S. for up to 90 days for tourism or business travel, without needing to apply for a visa at an American embassy or consulate, a process that can take months or even years.

The list of countries in the visa waiver program includes many European nations like the United Kingdom, Germany and France, as well as some U.S. allies around the world, including Australia, Israel, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea.

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    Just don’t go there. There’s no due process currently over there, at least for foreigners.

    If you absolutely need, send a robot instead of yourself. Much less hassle. :)

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    “I don’t use social media.”

    You can’t prove a negative. Shift the onus back onto them. Any attempt at them trying to connect the dots should be met with “That user is not me, any similarities in their name is purely coincidental.”

    Create a bogus email not tied to any social media and they won’t have a leg to stand on.

    Not to mention how incredibly difficult that enforcing such a policy would be. Could you imagine the manpower required for people to trawl through 5 years of social media history searching for verboten political speech against Dear Leader? Wouldn’t be surprised if they tried to use AI for this, since they’d have a hard time finding enough die-hard Trump loyalists to pack into the DHS to actually perform the background checks at the rate they would need to happen…

    Better yet, just avoid coming to this rapidly declining country in the first place.

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    Also US:

    Why is our tourism dead? Why does nobody want to visit our shit hole country anymore?

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    Hahaha eat shit Dumberikkka! How’s your tourism industry doing? Bad? Not a thing of value was lost.

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    “will have to” is such a misleading phrasing… Many of them will visit elsewhere. Fuck that shit for tourism. It’s not worth it, not to see some sites.

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      There are so much more nice sites on the planet. South America has lots, New Zealand, Australia… Just to name a few. Why would I spent money to go to that place and thus supporting a fascist regime, getting profiled for nothing and be seen as a potential threat for nothing when there are so many better alternatives?

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    People need to seriously stop coming here. Pull out any and all business you are able and cut America off. If we’re going to act like a walled garden, why support it? Help keep this cancer contained and stay the fuck away from anything America or American.

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    They really want to kill the tourism industry.

    Tank every sector of the economy possible. Amazing.

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    So, I guess it’s been foreign tourists who have been planting pipe bombs and shooting up our schools?

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      Exactly. That tourist may look harmless with their camera and suitcase. But there are actually pure blooded chaos agents sent to destroy our beautiful nation. -s

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    This is protection. Protection for a snowflake trump administration against JD Vance memes. Egos in this government are too fragile for repeated meme attacks and therefore they must be stopped at the borders at all costs. God I wish this was a joke