I don't blame them. My wife got her US citizenship very recently (like two months ago), and historically I have thought that was going to allow me to finally have a sigh of relief after years of fighting with and thousands of dollars spent for the immigration system in the US.
Now Republicans are actively trying to denaturalize people so they can be deported. I have no idea how successful that will actually be but the fact that there's an active attempt for it is enough to trigger anxiety for me.
If this is how they're treating naturalized citizens, I certainly cannot blame people for not visiting the US on a tourist visa; who the fuck knows what would happen to them? They're detaining tourists for bald JD Vance memes [1], I would stay the hell away from America and spend my vacation money elsewhere.
It really depresses me. I love the US. I was born here. I live here. Much as I love visiting Europe, I haven't really wanted to live anywhere else than the US, but I fear that this active hostility towards our foreign trading partners might cause permanent and irreparable damage. For the first time in my life, I have seriously started to consider moving me and my wife to a different country, which I hope I don't have to do but I am genuinely scared that they're going to detain my Mexican-immigrant wife.
[1] I know that CBP is denying that it was because of a meme, but instead because of drug use, but in this particular case, legitimacy doesn't matter. If it's believable that I could be detained in a country because I texted a meme to my friends, there's absolutely no way in hell I am visiting that country.
Now Republicans are actively trying to denaturalize people so they can be deported. I have no idea how successful that will actually be but the fact that there's an active attempt for it is enough to trigger anxiety for me.
If this is how they're treating naturalized citizens, I certainly cannot blame people for not visiting the US on a tourist visa; who the fuck knows what would happen to them? They're detaining tourists for bald JD Vance memes [1], I would stay the hell away from America and spend my vacation money elsewhere.
It really depresses me. I love the US. I was born here. I live here. Much as I love visiting Europe, I haven't really wanted to live anywhere else than the US, but I fear that this active hostility towards our foreign trading partners might cause permanent and irreparable damage. For the first time in my life, I have seriously started to consider moving me and my wife to a different country, which I hope I don't have to do but I am genuinely scared that they're going to detain my Mexican-immigrant wife.
[1] I know that CBP is denying that it was because of a meme, but instead because of drug use, but in this particular case, legitimacy doesn't matter. If it's believable that I could be detained in a country because I texted a meme to my friends, there's absolutely no way in hell I am visiting that country.