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You'll find insight into similar security measures affecting non-American travelers in this new, brief essay from editor Erik Torkells.
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Bring us your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free!
But first be sure they complete all their paperwork.
Posted By Joshua Ledwell on August 8, 2007, 1:42 PM
Sounds like another stupid 9/11 aftermath rule. Funny how we make it difficult for foreigners to get work visas, attend our colleges or now visit the country in our battle against terrorists. However, if terrorists really wanted to get here, just ask the 14 million illegal aliens how easy it is! So this is just another "safety measure" with horrible consequences to US tourism and nothing for the terrorist threat.
Posted By Steve on August 9, 2007, 9:18 AM
While it is impossible to access this article via links, we all know what it says. The harrasssment, fingerprinting,yelling, discourtesy and occasional brutality and gross insensitivity displayed by the border thugs at us airports cost the US economy billions and billions of dollars. With Bush in office this will not stop. Our procedures for visitors make us the nastiest destination among developed countries. Bush will not change that. Even if you are invited by the USG, God help you if you are brown and Muslim at the US airport. john wetherhold
Posted By john wetherhold on August 9, 2007, 9:21 AM
The state department of homeland futility or whatever they are called now should ease greatly the tourist visa application process for all people of friendly non aggressive nations. WE NEED TO AGGRESSIVELY IMPORT THESE TYPES OF PEOPLE AND THE MONEY THEY WILL GENERATE DURING THEIR STAY HERE. It also would greatly boost our poor image in foreign nations. Most embassy and consulate staffs in countries that I have personally visited are run out fear like they were working under nazi or hard line communist laws!
Posted By bob on August 9, 2007, 10:54 AM
Homeland Stupidity's border edicts have done little or nothing to increase security.
Honest people obey them.
OK, I still sneak water through the checkpoint.
Notice there are no water fountains AFTER the checkpoints?
Criminals find ways around them and profit by helping otherwise honest people circumvent the stupid rules.
Try to get a visa for someone from a less "developed" country.
Just to change planes in the US you need a visa.
Homeland Stupidity made that necessary in 2003, promising to make it possible again in a "short while". 4.5 years later it's still not possible without a 30-60 day wait just to get an appointment to apply for a transit visa.
Pay your $100 NON REFUNDABLE application fee and get refused. What a scam.
Of course you must realize that the typical Asian/ South American female is a terrorist.
When are Americans going to wake up and take the country back from the totalitarians, in both parties, and become the land of the free again?
Posted By Rich Skryd on August 9, 2007, 11:08 PM
And other countries are retaliating. It isn't new, but Brazil charges a processing fee for their visas for US citizens. The visa itself is free, but they add a "processing fee" specifically because the US charges one to their citizens. And they say, specifically, that they are doing it solely because the US does. And incoming US citizens are the only ones who get finger-printed when arriving in Brazil. Thanks, George.
Posted By Ed F on August 10, 2007, 7:39 AM
I'm an American living in Canada, who goes Stateside once a year for family reunions.
I hate flying in. I hate having to explain to US Immigration why I am entering the US on a US passport.I hate the extra patdown because I have metal hips. I hate taking my shoes off at security because some idiot terriorist from France thought they could bring a plane down with a shoe.
Love seeing my family. Hate the trip.
Posted By SK on August 11, 2007, 12:16 PM
I just returned to the U. S. from a business trip that took me through six countries in Europe and Asia. Immigration and customs agents were kind and competent everywhere I went until I returned to Atlanta, where they were almost uniformly cranky, belligerent, and inefficient. Those who were not U. S. citizens suffered far worse than I did.
While in Asia, I met a world-renowned scholar who has retired to Thailand after a distinguished career teaching at some of the most prestigious universities in Europe and the U. S. I asked him when he would travel to the U. S. again, hoping to book him for some lectures at my university. He replied: "When George Bush is no longer president."
Posted By George Frideric on August 11, 2007, 5:09 PM
Funny I was discussing with a friend about this just the other day, we must share the same views. I hope it’s ok I added your site to a few of my bookmark lists?
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