Unsafe for foreigners (or well anyone) to travel to US catchall thread

[aGDevil2k]

Well, my kids colleges sent out advisories to avoid international non-essential travel for the time being. So they're not coming home during the summer.

Sigh

Duke did the same for any community member not a citizen.

 

[donbosco]

Canadian living in the UK.

I will add that this Canadian both earned their advanced college degrees in the US and taught here before heading across the Atlantic.

 

[lawtig02]

i would suggest everyone who has even a deep tan carry their passport these days.

But I know, not something to joke about.

 

[CRHeel94]

Duke did the same for any community member not a citizen.

Yep, that came out Friday.

Now scrambling to fill some time for our youngest. He's working a basketball camp (Academy) and then has a summer internship that starts in June. Will probably send him for a couple of weeks to visit a cousin or something.

I'm in the middle of basketball season, so I can't go up til July...maybe.

 

[gtyellowjacket]

American Citizen rounded up by ICE. Still consider it an overreaction?

U.S.-born American citizen under ICE hold in Florida after driving from Georgia

Juan Carlos Gomez-Lopez is being held even though a county judge found his birth certificate “authentic” and said there wasn’t reason to consider him an “illegal alien.”

www.nbcnews.com

A U.S.-born American citizen was being detained at the request of immigration authorities Thursday despite an advocate showing his U.S. birth certificate in court and a county judge finding no reason for him to be considered an “illegal alien” who illegally entered Florida.

Juan Carlos Gomez-Lopez, 20, was arrested Thursday evening by Florida Highway Patrol and charged under a state immigration law that has been temporarily blocked since early this month. Details of Gomez-Lopez’s arrest and detention were first reported by the Florida Phoenix news site.


After inspecting his birth certificate, Leon County Judge LaShawn Riggans said during the hearing that “this is indeed an authentic document,” but that she did not have jurisdiction beyond finding no probable cause for the charge.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s role is to enforce immigration laws that generally apply to noncitizens. American citizens are protected under the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution from unreasonable search and seizure, arrest and detention.

Nonetheless, he remains detained locally at ICE’s request, said Thomas Kennedy, a spokesperson at the Florida Immigrant Coalition who attended Thursday’s hearing.

“Everything tracks for him being sent to an ICE detention center,” he told NBC News in a phone interview.

NBC News has reached out to state and federal authorities for comment.

Terrible. US customs and border has always had major 4th and 5th amendment problems that I don't agree with but this is worse. Get the kid a phone call to get his documents. If the documents don't come, you've lost the time it takes to give him a phone call. If the documents do come, you avoid kidnapping a citizen and shipping them to Mexico.

I think the lawsuits will start flying and the administration will lose more than they win but I also think this will hurt him politically. Sure there are some racists out there that don't mind anything bad happening to brown people, but the vast majority of Republicans, including the majority of Hispanic men that voted for trump, make a big distinction between citizens and illegal aliens.

 

[nycfan]

Sounds like Customs officers had the right to deport these two (whether or not they would have done so in otherwise identical circumstances four months ago I do not know), but the kind of thing is getting more attention as the Trump Admin has a deportation standoff with the courts.