Immigration agents also plan to ask prospective tourists to provide email addresses they’ve used over the last decade.

Visiting the US as a tourist could soon become significantly more onerous under a new plan being mulled by the Trump administration. According to a Tuesday report in the New York Times, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) this week filed a new proposal that would force visitors to submit up to five years’ worth of social media posts for inspection before being allowed to enter the country.

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  • TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works
    9·
    13 hours ago

    You guys are doing such a great job ensure nobody with means, skills, education, morals, conviction, or any choice in the matter at all, will ever willingly set foot in your country again.

    A country that despite all its significant flaws, was the global hegemon and had most of the industrialized West on their side until about a year ago.

    In the past year the US has alienated almost every ally they have, squandered every ounce of soft power they had, and gutted every program that made the USA what it is.

    What is the USA without top universities, a stable global currency, a rules based international order, everything the US built in the post WW2 world that shaped our current civilizations has been tossed aside

    The USA is now just an enormous army run by psychopaths

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    13 hours ago

    He’s being told what to do by putin again. Putin needs us in chaos.

    In addition to concerns about civil liberties violations, there are also worries about what the new policy would do to the US tourism industry.