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It's fine, same as it always was crossing the border, just don't fuck around lying to border guards or announce you're taking bookings for tattoos this week in Seattle on Instagram. Basically the news has decided to publicize this shit like it wasn't happening 2 months ago either, same as how they focus on "kids in cages" only when a republican is president or plane crashes that 2 weeks there.

I had to go for work. I have a Nexus card and traveled very low key so I didn't have any issues. I've told my company that I'm not interested in traveling to the US unless absolutely necessary. I have the advantage of being a white man in my late 50s.

They're a scientist. Science is pretty international and often involves travelling to all sorts of countries for conferences with other researchers in your field.

This. I personally have no plan going to usa now and in the future. Unfortunately some Canadians may still have to go for work related trips. Just be aware that you may or may not need to register in the new "Alien Registration Requirement".

People also travel to Pyongyang just to see just how shitty it is.

Ngl China didn’t touch my phone upon entry. Think my iris got scanned though and certainly got full palm printed.

This is the only solution. I would rather eat nails than go to the States again.

My partner is a scientist and has to travel to the US for work later this year. We're both dreading it, given all these stories of people being detained at the border.

Things are still gonna get worse, we're not gonna get through this until their actions hurt so many people that enough of them get fed up and it leads to one of those belgrade or hungary sized protests

A third of you are fascist bellends, a third are fighting against the fascist bellends .... and a third are just standing there doing nothing.

They never asked to see my phone at the border. But the last time I crossed they were getting a hell of a lot more aggressive. They got less aggressive when I became a Canadian citizen, but when I only had my Lebanese passport they almost always brought me in for more questioning. It was kinda bizarre. They probably aggressively searched my luggage, but I can't be sure of that.

While technically true, they weren't kicking out foreign visitors for being critical if the president.

I used to train people in a specific culinary technique, and i had clients from all over the world, including Muslim clients from the Middle East and India. Most had no problem visiting, but one was stopped at the border and heavily grilled.

His visa said he was here for vacation and educational purposes, but when they went through his texts, they determined that he was here for business purposes, and threatened to confiscate his cash, and reject him from entering the country.

After a few hours, he eventually convinced them that he had considered his training with me to be educational rather than business for his visa, and it just an honest mistake, with no nefarious purpose, and was finally released so he could visit me, and get his training.

This was about 10 years ago, and I don't remember who was president. It was either Trump or Obama.

How is that a problem when the president is out there storing confidential docs in his golf course, and when they fire off the cybersecurity teams?