Apart from all the other concerns, given the way both ICE and Trump have behaved the last six months, it’s not beneath them to grant you a visa first, let you enter the country, cancel your visa and lock you up.
Welp, goodbye tourism.
Every unreasonable demand coming from mango mussolini’s people makes me laugh!
I fear the day you’ll have to stop laughing too.
Having a strict policy of never setting foot on US soil does wonders for not having to worry about Trump’s latest brain fart.
Until they come for you too.
Just ask Iran, Groenland, Canada…
They haven’t come for us in Canada yet, and in fact are in the “finding out” phase of the lesson in why they shouldn’t.
We have an army of beavers, cobra chickens, and mad rabbits.
Why do rabbits matter? Ask Napoleon: A Brief Moment of History: When Napoleon Took on Rabbits
We also have people effectively indistinguishable from them which would make us invisible in the war of resistance, allowing operations deep behind enemy lines.
Keep in mind the USA couldn’t win a war with people who looked very different from them. Oh, wait. That doesn’t narrow it down very much at all. I mean I could be talking about Vietnam here. Or Somalia. Or Pakistan. Or Afghanistan. Or …
Whichever I meant, though, the USA has consistently shown its inability to hold territory even when “us vs. them” was pretty clear to establish. What chance do you think they’ll have when faced with people who look and talk just like them?
How will they know?
Obviously they’ll just search for the username in their “metadata only” database to check if you were lying. It’s just like taxes: they know about everything already, they just want to check if you’re honest or can add another datapoint to hang you with.
If they can figure that out, they won’t be asking first, they’ll come for you in the night when it’s easy and you are asleep
If that were true, why do we need to declare taxes? Why wouldn’t they just come for people who they know are breaking the law?
If you pay wrong amount, they mail you the amount you owe.
Why bother? Because you aren’t thinking of the middle man!
Also if you’re wealthy and can afford great lawyers you can save a good amount more because IRS won’t bother.
What happens if you don’t have social media?
Or like you just change your public name when you travel?
Or like say you don’t? I have this feeling these people don’t actually give two shits to go find out if you lied about that or not
Trumpists who’ve spent the last decade saying all kinds of insane bigoted shit online can now sell their Twitter accounts to prospective students for big money.
I imagine they’ll just deny visas to all those cases. Unfortunately they’re under no obligation to provide visas to people who don’t use social media.
They can use it as an excuse to arrest people
All of those questions AND also, five years – what if I forget?
Lol no
Unenforceable
It’s been like this for ages in Mexico. They also take your biometrics, BTW.
It’s for F, M, and J visas, not tourists. F visas are for academic students, M is for vocational/non-academic study, and J is for work/study programs. None of them are for immigration.
Still a ridiculous requirement. They weren’t requiring a list of everyone you talked to in the last 12 months, copies of letters/emails, and your diary 30 years ago.
As a tourist applying for USA visa waiver they wanted social media username/links. But they only had slots for Facebook, twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. Apparently fediverse hasn’t hit their radar.
