Ponder the plight of a 65 year-old woman with a valid visa.
65 year-old British woman with a valid tourist visa on the trip of a lifetime to the U.S. ends up handcuffed, shackled and sleeping on the floor of a locked cell and incarcerated for six weeks. Her message to other potential foreign tourists: “‘Don’t go to the US.”
Grandmother Detained Details
- The Cause: While attempting to cross into Canada, they were turned back due to paperwork issues. Upon re-entering the U.S., officials discovered Bill’s visa had expired.
- “Guilty by Association”: Karen was detained alongside her husband, which she was told was because she was “guilty by association” for helping him pack, despite her own documents being in order.
- Conditions: Karen reported being shackled by wrists, waist, and ankles during transport. She was held at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma, Washington, where she described the conditions as a “prison” with lights always on, windowless cells, and having to sleep on a mattress on the floor for a month because she could not climb to the top bunk.
- The Ordeal: The couple was held for six weeks, including during a federal government shutdown, and was pressured to sign “self-removal” documents.
Warning to Travelers
Following her release, Karen Newton advised other tourists to avoid visiting the U.S. under the current, more restrictive administration, stating: “If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone”.
How US politics is affecting international travel
The BBC comments How US politics is affecting international travel
As tourism to the US plunges because of perceived risks, some travellers are now second-guessing whether it’s safe to visit destinations Trump has recently threatened.
Since taking office again in January 2025, US President Donald Trump and his administration have issued tariffs on longtime allies, repeatedly threatened to annex Canada, detained foreign tourists at the border, implemented mass deportations and may soon be rolling out a programme that scrutinises foreign tourists’ social media profiles before they are allowed to enter the country.
As a result, a growing number of nations have issued travel warnings to the US and many would-be visitors have called for an all-out boycott of travel to the country, with some even calling it a “hostile state”. According to a report by the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC), the US was projected to lose a staggering $12.5bn (£9.35bn) in international visitor spending in 2025. Of the 184 nations analysed by the WTTC and Oxford Economics, the US was the only one forecasted to see a decline in international visitor spending last year.
“Once aspirational, a US trip now feels, for many, like both a political act, a leap of faith for entry and a financial burden,” writes Sarah Kopit on the tourism industry website Skift. The site also reported that 46% of travellers polled last year said they were less likely to visit the US because of Trump.
But that was last year.
In the first few days of 2026, the US government has conducted airstrikes in Caracas and captured President Nicolas Maduro; says it will now “run” Venezuela; renewed talks to acquire Greenland; and has threatened Cuba, Iran, Colombia and Mexico. Now, it seems that Trump’s actions aren’t just affecting travellers’ decisions to visit the US; they may be affecting travellers’ decisions to visit these other destinations too.
While it may be difficult for individual travellers to gauge how seriously to take Trump’s proclamations, for British travel agents and tour operators, the decision is simple.
“There’s a clear line in the sand,” said Sean Tipton, spokesperson for the Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA). “As soon as the Foreign Office gives advice against travel, they will not send anyone. It is a duty of care issue: when you travel against Foreign Office advice, standard travel insurance does not cover you.”
In the travel industry, perception is everything. Less than two years since the US was named the world’s top destination for tourism by the World Economic Forum, the nation is seeing what can happen when travellers feel the risk of visiting isn’t worth the reward.
The US has a services surplus. It seems Trump doesn’t want it.
Regardless, the message is go somewhere else. It’s just not worth the risk coming here.
Yep, just as I thought: Mish hates this country’s guts. Good Democrat! How pathetic.
Grandma’s story sounded as plausible as 2 percent inflation. Mish should use the same analytical reasoning he does on the economy and dig deeper.
According to DHS, William Newton was in the country illegally for nearly 20 years overstaying an H1-B visa. Karen Newton overstayed her visa waiver admission for almost 4 years. She was banned from the US for 10 years (during Obama’s administration). The Biden administration granted her a tourist visa after her ban ended in 2023. In September of 2025 she and her husband attempted to cross the Canadian border, they did not have proper paperwork for their vehicle and were denied entry into Canada.
During her inspection re-entering the United States, Karen Newton was unable to provide clear details about her situation, including her husband’s legal status. Given her history of overstays, her previous ban, her husband’s unlawful presence, and the vehicle documentation issues, officers determined additional scrutiny and detention were warranted under the law and she was detained.
Not so much a once in a lifetime vacation to the US. Grandma has not responded for comment.
the number of tourists is down because previous numbers counted the illegals as tourists
I doubt that whatever law which caused Canadians to turn these folks back was passed in the last year. I doubt that whatever law put the time limit on the man’s visa, which expired because he didn’t renew it in time occurred within the last year. I’m reading here that people in congress gave too much power to other people over many years and then proceeded to shut down the government leaving these folks stranded in custody. I get it that arguing politics might generate traffic and I’ve seen people come and go from this blog as administrations came and went. If you see this comment Mish what I’m wondering is why you don’t attribute this to the Deap State? Just within the past year I saw the executive branch try to cut spending programs only to be told by the judicial branch that the spending must happen since the legislative branch put the spending in the budget. I don’t particularly like the idea of the executive branch becoming more powerful and I’m sad that the deep state full timers and that judicial branch and the legislative branch (which should be the most responsive to voters) seem unwilling to cooperate with the majority of voters who whose will is expressed in the executive branch election. There seems to be incredibly poor judgment being used by whoever decided to detain instead of deport these folks. Maybe they couldn’t deport them without a hearing and a court order? Maybe the law required them to be detained so it isn’t the deep state’s fault?
So I’m open to the possibility that the people who did this had to do it but it can’t help remind me of the infamous American Airlines story when Security got in a fight with a passenger, a medical doctor from Louisville, Kentucky if I remember correctly, while ejecting him from an airplane years ago. These things happen from a combination of passing laws making policies for one reason or another and then applying poor judgment year later to circumstances which it’s impossible to foresee.
I’d like to know who else is in custody in that prison like facility and why they’re all there? I’d like to know if it’s even possible to layoff or terminate the employment of who is responsible for this sort of thing or maybe if it would be better to transfer them to a different position where they can’t hurt others like these tourists? There’s gotta be a better way.
I think this is another proof of “racism”
100%. Go to Mexico instead. I hear Puerto Vallarta is like the 4th of July.
Venezuela … Greenland; and has threatened Cuba, Iran, Colombia and Mexico
And bombed Somalia & Nigeria; as well as Russia.
We are a country swimming in guns with a globally high rate of gun deaths.
We have masked federal agents gunning down our own citizens in the streets.
If I weren’t a US citizen, I would avoid this country like a plague.
As a citizen, I try to avoid the US like a plague.
Got exit strategy?
Start a party, “The Cut & Fleas”. You can have a little hopping flea as a mascot. We’ll be sure to send you absentee ballots!
I’m sure that someone will vote in my place. Why bother?
It’s hard to be a cowboy if there’s no gunplay.
I hear Mexico is super safe. bon voyage!
Yet spring break in Mexico is looking questionable.
Marked it as a hyper realistic first person shooter game.
If you are thinking of traveling. Safe travel is location specific, see this guide for any plans you have or to determine if friends/family abroad are safe.
https://www.osac.gov/Content/Report/89194885-afe5-4253-bfab-27eda52cd3cf
it’s like duck hunt down there!
Collateral damage resulting from a massive effort to correct the mass illegal immigration of the past. It is not a common occurrence..
Bullshit. A common occurrence.
Less than one tenth of one percent (.01%) of those arrested in the current ice enforcement process are American citizens. The percentage of Americans arrested and let go for federal crimes is in the 30 percent range. Law enforcement is not an exact science. Immigration enforcement is an ugly business. Sh.t happens.
Children disappear, ladies get shot in the face… Just your day-to-day law enforcement.
I am not sure you have included property damage, the number of cars with broken windows, broken doors, etc. If Trump was truly serious he would use e-verify and check SS numbers against valid SS#’s. Could get many people that way but business does not like that because they like cheap labor. Second why are these actions in the north. The bulk of immigrants are in Texas and Florida. Why no parading around the streets there? Forgot, they are Republican governors. And very very quiet about these ICE raids.
Targeted disruption of blue state economies and political opponents.
Florida Home Depots continue to have meeting area for migrant labor pick up’s. Enforcement is selective for sure.
You can’t say that. The wokies will get mad and hit you with their wigs.
This is a case of: You may not be interested in the news but the news is interested in you.
Why anyone in their right mind would visit the US after six months of Trump ICE insanity is beyond me. Sticking your head in the sand & not reading the news is just plain dangerous.
To paraphrase Warren Buffet, “It takes years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it”
Trump has ruined our reputation around the world and it will take years for us to rebuild it, if ever. We can’t stop this idiot soon enough.
The problem for the US, even after Trump is gone the Trump voters are still there.
Without Trump, there are no “Trump voters”.
It’s all the one person. A cult, if you will.
There’ll be some would-be cult leaders trying to inherit Trump’s followers.
It’ll go nowhere.
There’s only one Trump.
The US has had a bad reputation for decades. You don’t think defaulting on your debts (closing the gold window), Wateergate, Iran-Contra, the blue dress, Arkancide, the DNC staffer murder, Cankles wiping her emails, Russia dossier and a hundred other things don’t make the news where I live?
Mish, this could be considered a sketchy headline imo. Unlike what I typically see from You, also imo. Just curious why, or am I off base?
“Hello World, Please Don’t Come to the US”
Followed By:
“Ponder the plight of a 65 year-old woman with a valid visa.”
The story is horrific, if true, and someone should be punished for this.
However, this headline could scream many things, unfairly perhaps.
1. America Hates Foreigners
2. America doesn’t want Visitors in our Country.
3. If you come to America, we will place you in shackles.
4. Tourism is down in expensive America when compared to many other Countries that are much cheaper to visit, and easier to get to.
5. This incident being tied to it, makes it appear as it’s a normal every day occurrence, which it’s not, like this specific incident and TG, as a normal course of events in America.
6. Appears to seem as though America’s President is saying this, which He is obviously not.
Etc.
I think the point is, you can be arrested and incarcerated in this country without due process and without doing anything wrong. Hence, unless you have to be here (i.e. you’re a citizen), it’s best not to visit.
Also, what’s with the random capitalizations in your post?
He Is just A bit special, as You can probably guess by his posts.
You could say the same about virtually every other Country. In the UK they toss you in jail for simply speaking the wrong words, having the wrong thoughts etc. Do we not go there as well. How about all Muslim Countries if you gay? We could just get where nobody leaves their bedroom…
We were supposed to be different, though. Land of the free, home of the brave and all that. We’ve tossed all that aside to protect a pedo crook from the consequences of a lifetime of criminality.
We are a free land, as long as you obey the laws that exist. Pay your taxes if eligible, show up in court if legally called to do so. Etc.
They don’t generally shoot you in the face, step around and shoot you in the face twice more though.
At least, not that I’ve heard.
I’ll bet someone can articulate the crime as they beat the ever loving shit out of me. Can’t do that here. They just shoot you in the fucking head, claim you’re a domestic terrorist and that they were “in fear for their lives”. I’ll take a Bobby over ICE any day. At least most Bobbies aren’t waving around automatic weapons with silencers.
ICE Agents do not carry around machine guns (auto) and definitely not silencers as standard equipment. In certain situations, If they are called to do so, they obviously follow orders and do so. Far from the norm…
Incentives have a huge effect on people’s behavior, as Milton Friedman and many, many others have documented. This is an absolutely abhorrent story, and shows that beyond the heavy-handed way that DHS is operating, there is a complete lack of humanity in the agency. Doing the right thing is HIGHLY discouraged, in fact it might get an ICE agent fired. Brutality, arrests, deportations for any reason are encouraged in every instance.
A small-town cop with quotas on speeding tickets will hide on a steep downhill slope to catch drivers barely going over the speed limit. When you set quotas for ICE on deportations and arrests of people with documentation issues, ICE will look for the most likely foot-fault documentation issues to make the arrest. They WANT tourists to be confused by the rules and to make an inadvertent trivial error so that they can check off one more on their quota.
The amount of damage Trump has done to America’s reputation in the world in just 13 months is astonishing.
Economists call this supply-induced demand. Once the government builds up a large capacity or capability to do something, such as has happened with ICE now, that capacity or capability is going to be used for corrupt or stupid purposes that go way beyond original intent. That’s why true conservatives and libertarians don’t like $100 billion budgets for ICE.
Imagine a nation that puts incredible energy into finding a TV spokesmodel’s mom.
But does nothing to stand up for the Epstein victims of its perverted president.
That is Trump’s new America.
been this way for decades old sport. FREE JON CORZINE
NYC is still full of tourists. I think it’s mostly to other areas like national parks.
I can’t say I blame people for not coming here, if i saw a country doing what we’re doing, being led by a guy like Trump I would not visit. it’s a big world with lots of beautiful places to visit.
Believe me,i’m a jazz lover,would still like to go to NY and go to concerts,whoever is in charge.
Sadly, during my last fall’s trip to Europe, I met up with considerable resentment towards the US.
I saw several bus stops with “Tesla 0 ~ 1939 in 4 seconds”. While in Monaco I spoke with three Australian women that canceled their fantasy trip to the US and instead booked France, Monaco and Italy.
Another long term Australian friend that had been to the US over twenty times on business with companies like GM, Ford and Goodyear was here with his wife and daughter. He was planning on coming to see me but turned around and left a week early because of an inappropriate interaction with customs and his daughter. He will “NEVER” come back to the US.
Meanwhile with 3 million pages of evidence and thousands of references to government officials none of the criminals are being held accountable. Or DOJ and Congress are colluding to cover up criminal activity.
Credibility and accountability are gone at the federal level.
Wellcome to the Dark Ages of Trump.
even my very close russian pal, who defected USSR in 80s, and has been an investment banker to russian oligarchs and now works at a huge money center bank HQ in nyc is a little trepidation. he continually travels the globe going to rich, poor and dangerous countries doing business for 45 years. he recently told me over the past few years he’s noticed outright hostility to him being an amerikan now, when he is with his banker pals from nyc…………..i was flabbergasted when he recently told me “we should exit together”. this is a man which left one crumbling evil empire in his life. i always joked with him since the 80s he jumped into the next evil empire. for decades he believed in amerika. i mocked him relentlessly as he could handle my truths. i’m gonna stick around for now and watch the empire implode. if i feel scared, i’ll get out. i already diversified my assets in other lands……….decades ago.
I have roots and significant projects underway here is the states and I see the potential for the US to recover, and if not, be relatively safe where I live.
You see a longer/broader and more worldly perspective and have experienced the downfall of The Soviet State in real time and been agile enough to get out with assets intact.
When in France drug last falls protests, I spoke with locals quite a bit about politics with people out in the country regarding what happens when governments collapse. They simply said “who cares, life goes on”. The politicians come and go. They (politicians) think they are so important, but as long as you can rely on your neighbors and friends to provide mutual support, crops, meats, eggs etc. everyone can continue enjoying life.
Living in the cities/suburbs of the US would present huge problems if the social fabric tears.
Was their widespread violence in Russia and lawlessness in the streets when it broke up?
About collapse of governments and societies there are works on Bernard Wicht, a Swiiss academic. He claims that in this case the state becomes the main enemy of the population, he gives several historical examples. This is what happens in France. For example when citizens take the place of a state incapable of ensuring their security, they risk far more at the hands of the state than those who cause this insecurity
GREAT points. i concur. it was low level wars in some of the old USSR states. ukraine, for instance. and if you were a jew in uzbekistan and kazakstan and kryzigstan, you had better high tailed it out to nyc or israel……but in moscow and leningrad mostly peaceful. some low level bombing into some government buildings there. i think it was much worse the further out of the cities one went. according to my pal who was being groomed at university to be in the communist party…….and had visited all the old soviet bloc countries from poland to kazakhstan. he had defected after graduation and i met him at columbia u. i did NOT attend that prestigious school, i just studied there all the time with my girlfriend(now my wife). met many folks like dmitri. some even went back to fight the power in the polish dock workers strikes………..i think it is a fools game to try and guess where will be peaceful or where it will be bloody. you know the history of rural amerika in the 1930s and 1850s i would imagine. all depends on the situations. but guys like you and most of mish readers are gonna be fine. just pay attention. and you seem to have treated many folks kindly and given jobs, so you might be the last person on this blog, that would have a problem. from much wiser men and women than i, who have lived through much turmoil in nations and empires, the overiding wisdom is, that smart and good and trustworthy friends are the best currency in life when stuff gets dicey. i really am not worried. there is just so much goddamn wealth here. you farmers and scientists(i did hard science) in the 80s have learned how to produce tons of calories per acre………..i hope this helps.
ps. i’ve helped out dozens of people in my life. i have 2 friends that have 100% self sufficient farms…….with fuel, fresh water, and animals and crops and even marijuana, both only a 1 and 2 hours hitch hike away……..they already said, no problemo.
Good will begets a good life. Thanks for sharing your insight.
What a nice read, and thanks for sharing! I couldn’t agree more “the overriding wisdom is, that smart and good and trustworthy friends are the best currency in life when stuff gets dicey.” I have been saved by a few, and saved a few over the past 45-50 Years. I have found out that Friends pick you and you pick them, and that matters a lot!
I know you get a chuckle out of my posts and short/long term mining trades:
Bought HL, AG, AEM call options on the dip this morning.
HL and AG are still cheap IMO and this is not advise. It’s just what I did…
Likely to get my ass handed to me if the Chinese are not buying the dip when the Lunar New Year ends today. Full on trading Chinese begins at 8:30 tonight.
The industrial demand from China and India for silver for their solar power generation plans is insanely and with mines unable to keep up with demand for 6 years now the structural silver deficit is getting ugly.
Beware the COMEX paper futures/options contracts as the Mexico situation creates justification for the declaration of “Force Majeure” and cash settlements instead of physical delivery for the march contract, (which sees first notice on the 27th of February).
I kept watching for the dip… but it didn’t dip much.
The dip was short and quick. I had to buy in size after watching the Shanghai open and trade at the equivalent of $102 on silver and backwardation on their strip. Our COMEX strip is not in backwardation. Only made a few $ today on the silver option buys. Long positions are fat!
AEM is the real leader right now and the silver stocks will play catch up if we can clear $89 IMO.
I must have missed the whole thing. Probably was here ranting about something or other.
thanks. agree. i remember my pal i was on advisory board of his hotel companies in hawaii and pac rim, used force majeure after 9.11.01. his japanese investors had zero problemo with it. they remembered pearl harbor and nagasaki……..too. a wise old cowboy LDS from utah. taught me a great deal about life and investing and the world.
thanks for the comments on what you see and like. zero advice. BHP and JNJ, i like how they are trading………love the miners you list., too. i subscribe to ed sykota trend following rules for decades now. read the book, 5 stages of collapse. written by a russian and recommended by economist. wonderful read. we will only get to stage 2 or so, imho. so much wealth here and our states already set up to govern. pre 1860 ain’t any big deal. keep the highways and navy and courts and congress and potus……..just weaken them.
Topic of article, about how Pres. Trump’s administration treats foreigners, first instance = foreign tourists. There is plenty of reason to be dismayed about it.
I can’t help thinking, entirely independent and in the background, of the Green sentiment that no one should use fossil-fueled transportation, and therefore hardly anyone should travel further than about 20 miles in their lifetime, the distance to the county fair. Economist E.F. Schumacher was one to write this, in his book ‘Small is Beautiful’, in the 1960s.
(BTW, in such a world of small travel, there should not be a big nation like the USA.)
All your veggies were fertilized, cultivated, harvested, processed, and packaged with oil products.
Get that garden started.
Don’t come? heck, some of us from here are trying to exit before the collapse!
Got exit strategy?
Steven Spielberg left California just in time to avoid the potential California billionaires tax.
I bet he still spends most of his time there.
“Got exit strategy?”
Boat,airplane,rocket.
Avoid the train.
I am now in Singapore (from France), and I would never stay with an expired visa.
“Unauthorized overstaying can result in penalties up to 6 months imprisonment and, in some cases, caning”
Nobody here, among the strangers, consider that it prevents tourism
It is all about TDS. Thanks for weighing in.
It’s also about PDS (Pedophile Defending Syndrome) at this point
He’s uncle Jeffrie’s special boy.
Oh boy, now the Gross Old Pedophiles are saying “we’re just like Singapore, what’s the big deal”
Freedumb!
Replace, 65 year old British woman with her actual name, Karen and this nana tragedy looses its rage factor rapidly. When did Canada get so tough on immigration? Have you written an article about how in the hell has Lutnick not resigned and been arrested yet.
I was under the impression that British folks could visit all “common wealth” nations far easier than anyone else. Seems there may be more to the story…
Arresting shackling harassing and imprisoning tourists for alleged paperwork problems is yet another tyrannical step happening here
Tourism creates jobs and gives our economy a huge boost
Digital: Keep stacking electrons Hell no!
Physical Gold, Silver and Lead are the real monies of the Hunger Game Era
Can you eat gold or silver? If your kids are starving how much gold would you take for your last can of corn? Plus, gold and silver are heavy to carry around while you scavenge. Don’t tell me you’re going to try and defend a safe!!!
i’ve got gold teeth. i would trade them for a meal if i had to. last resort. i’d hold onto my bag of gold on a sinking ship until i fell to the bottom of the sea………
Yeah go to Mexico, it is safer there.
MAGA logic at it’s best. we are now competing with mexico and russia for individual rights of humans. public or home schooled is my question to you, old gal ?
A D was making a joke. I must be MAGA because I got it.
yes. i assumed so, too. when on the darpanet, i always assume everyone is joking, sarcastic, or full of shit. i’m actually a tween from the phillipines.
Super rich, super famous, ruling class including presidents involving in paedophile ring and cannibalism.
How are you going to solve?
What are you going to expect?
Chaos and more chaos.
cannabilism. do you think epstein and trumpstein also have the shrunken heads of the little girls and boy kids they diddled together?.
This stupid inane brutally insane President has managed to fuck EVERYTHING UP.
Blame him for Mexico’s violence also.
Mexican drug Cartels or American Ice Gangs. All the same to me.
CIA did carry out the execution of the pharmaceutical representative, who was supplying and providing, the market demand from depressed amerikans. adam smith would have approved.
Actually, there is a case for blaming the US as the final straw that broke the camel’s back. Rumor is US intelligence provided targeting data.
That was funny!Great trolling!
There are many of these stories unfortunately. And it is by now widely established that ICE does not care about rights, does not follow due process, has an incentive to just kidnap random people and they know they are covered by the administration even if they commit murder. Avoiding the USA as much as possible makes common sense.
Heck, I get nervous entering the US and I’m a citizen, white with green eyes! We’re all fair game for the boots, pistol whips and muzzles of the ICE.
Definitely sounds like a Karen. Don’t want issues? Make 100% sure your travel documents are in order *before* you travel. It’s not difficult. I’m a foreigner living in Thailand, and I can say Thai immigration is 10x as strict as USA. Amuses me all of you pissing and moaning about usa finally getting serious about immigration
I don’t think anyone disagrees with the idea that you should have paperwork in order. But being locked up without any due process or information for 6 weeks because of a simple mistake is out of proportion to the mistake made.
And the wife’s paperwork was in order. Guilt by association for helping her husband pack? GTFOOH.
Why is “10x as strict” so hard to incorporate? It is what it is, opinions aside.
F***wit. They were leaving the US for a land of integrity and freedom. Canada.
Tell that to the Canadian truckers.
That was because they were forced to get vaccinated for Covid. Those poor poor souls. Talk about whiners.
Really?
Just show me the proof how difficult/strict to enter Thailand. (10 X stricter)
I have been to Thailand and South East Asian Countries several times.
Hello, Mr. Reasonable Nazi.
Her documents were 100% in order jackass
It’s ironic that a woman from a police state complaining about the US. 12,000 a year arrested for mean tweets, silent prayer, expressing religious beliefs, singing pop songs and thought crimes in a country with no constitution.
Also this is the woman’s side of the story. Might well be other matters she didn’t mention that might tarnish her sob story
This is the country that does actually act against people implicated in the Epstein files. See Andrew and Peter Mandelson. It is not nearly the police state that the USA has become under Trump. If you don’t see that then that’s because you take great care not to see, so your Trump Cult beliefs can remain comfortably unchallenged.
Who said I have Trump Cult beliefs. I don’t have TDS like many on this forum and am glad he beat Cameltoes. But I also see his many faults and failures. Narcissist in Chief, spends more time tweeting than fixing problems, failed to lock Depends up, filed to drain the swamp, failed to enforce anti competitive laws against big Pharma and the rest of the Medical scam.
Best hope is an assassination puts him out and Vance can turn the mess that the US is around. Would hate to see the typical moron that is the US voter elect an idiot like Newscum in 2028 because of Trump
Voted for Trumpstien becuz Kackles.
Calls other people dumb.
Reap what you sow, dipshit.
I’m not American, though I’m sure that if I travelled to a Dem state I could vote without an ID. It’s the American way.
You don’t need to be an American to be a dip shit, but it helps.
Shame on you for even using the A word. Plan B. is the right thing to do.
Plan B: Impeach him ASAP. As vindictive as Trump is anyone who votes against him will be attacked at once. But if he is found guilty quickly in the Senate, he won’t have time to get his vengeance.
The only weakness in this plan is Democrats seem want to keep Trump in office so that they will be able to completely take over America after the Midterms.
100% agree the A word is shameful.
Another victim of Fox News
Silly assumption. I don’t watch TV and use international news sources as well as US online sources so I see many things that your mainstream channels won’t cover.
We read Al Jazeera here too.
… And I am the queen of old Siam
You really think MI5/6 did not have this information already?
Police state? We don’t execute our citizens on the streets. yet.
US off my travel itinerary.
Your police executed a Brazilian on the Underground. It was intended to execute another guy but they they got the wrong brown guy.
Police state!? The US fits that bill pretty well along side well know authoritarian regimes. The numbers incarcerated in the US are significantly higher than every other OECD country.
The risk of being arrested for criticising those whom we may not criticise is spreading throughout the West. In Europe and the bit that hangs off the left hand side you can be arrested for saying the truth out loud. If you travel to the US you can now be arrested for what you have posted.
Been to the US several times. No more. Lots of interesting things to see in Asia
I don’t see any irony here. She got locked up. A sixty five year old woman. For six weeks. Because she helped her husband pack. How can you justify that? What “other matters” would justify that?
Sure Kneel
There’s an article at the Guardian detailing this case: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice
An ICE spokesperson denied they give bonuses to ICE agents for detaining people like Karen Newton alleged. That spokesperson is a liar. I’ll take hearsay over the word of a government official any day of the week.
What happened was probably that his visa was still valid when he entered and his stay was probably the typical 60 days. He was fine, as long as he remained within the US.
However, upon reentry from Canada, the stay was not the governing document, but only the visa, then expired. If he were aware of the technicalities, had gone online and got another ESTA, he’d probably be fine. That’s all that it’d had taken and the border patrol might have advised him on that and made his trip fairly uneventful.
Alas, not so in these Fascist States anymore, where bonuses are given for incarcerating elderly tourists for no good reason.
Stories of Travellers locked up for several weeks before being sent back home without a logical explanation as to why they received such heavy handedness — are common in the Foreign News now? Chasing away tourists must be the goal?
https://www.businessinsider.com/foreign-travelers-avoiding-us-continued-blow-to-tourism-2026-1
Are these articles common because there are more instances or are the articles more common because there media has an agenda? For example the media didn’t report on Kids in Cages under Obama but do report them under Trump, even using footage from Obamas time and passing it off as recent.
All true. Screaming Polar Vortex Bomb Cyclones Atmospheric Rivers every 2 weeks don’t help, either.
I see this as a good thing as it will reduce demand and eventually drive down hotel prices in the US. That’s already happening in Los Vegas. When it costs $100 per night to stay at a Motel 6, you know you’ve got a problem.
There are a lot of countries that I would like to travel to including Japan, China, and India. However I am not going. I can’t in good conscience defend many actions of the US government towards other nations and I cannot expect to be treated any better in other countries than the US treats foreign visitors here.
When you’re traveling, no one knows or cares where you’re from. No one is going to ask you to justify what’s going on in the US right now. And if you’re worried, just tell them you’re a Canadian. They’re just like Americans except that their mouths hinge differently.
You’re not representing your government. If you’re going there and people initiate politics talk, just say you really disagree with Trump… They’ll understand.
Agree. Most people across the world know that individuals don’t represent their government. Certain citizens of many countries are used to even more corrupt or authorities regimes that what is currently present in the US. People understand, and most will stay open minded.
Though if you travel overseas and act like an ignorant, naïve, insular person from the US then people will likely more readily jump to a negative viewpoint towards you.
People deserve the government they elect. At least half of Americans deserve poor treatment abroad for voting to subject the world to that idiot they put in charge. But you are right most non-Americans will give people the benefit of the doubt.
I have made no sacrifice beyond voting and complaining. I am complicit.
And self aware. That has to count for something.
That and a fiver will get me a cup of coffee.
You are correct. I visited the Allende home in Chile. The program there described the CIA back coupe of Allende, his death, and the replacement of Allende with Pinochet who “disappeared” over 3,000 people including some American students. It was difficult to sit through hearing how our government instigated and backed a coupe against a democratically elected government. But no one there blamed me personally or even had any derogatory words to say.
Other nations don’t suffer from inherited Perfidious Albion. You’d be surprised.
MAGA won’t care. They don’t want people to come here because that would mean allowing immigrants in. That’s how they make the connection. I read their comments. Oh, they’re so proud of it.
Got that right. Your typical MAGA is a white trash loser who has never been out of his zip code. Cooking meth, living on food stamps, resentful of anyone who works hard to better themselves. I would trade ten hard working Mexicans for one of these scum. Kid Rock my ass.
Ditto
Double ditto.
MEGADITTOS!
You sound like Rush Limbaugh
I meant to. He was great on the radio In the early 90s. Went sour somehow.
Think you got the ratio backward there, but good point.
Kid Rock is their Superman.
Tourists are now immigrants? I think you’re making that up. Tsk tsk.