The teens claimed CBP targeted them because they hadn’t booked hotels for their entire stay in Hawaii.

“They found it suspicious that we hadn’t fully booked our accommodations for the entire five weeks in Hawaii,” Pohl said. “We wanted to travel spontaneously. Just like we had done in Thailand and New Zealand.”

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    I wonder where you’re from. In the parts of Europe I know it seems to be everywhere, all the media, all the information channels, just inescapable. And it’s not US politics, it’s international politics - tariffs, visas, research financing, USAID, military alliances, new territory ambitions - these are not US internal politics, it influences other countries in a massive way.

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      it seems to be everywhere

      Only if you’re terminally online.

      But for the people that get their news from TV and printed newspaper … or maybe facebook, US poltics is a sidenote. The sports segments are usually twice as long as the international politics segment, for example. Sure, they probably heard about the tarrifs in some form, but a lot of people just don’t care about that.