The money is still going to an american company.

Well, sure but it's also going to the Europeans that work in that factory, and to the local community through taxation. It probably benefits the local community just as much, if not more, than it would benefit Ford.

Not to mention, the government backed pension/retirement funds of many European nations are at least partially invested in global securities indexes and more conservative US corporate bonds. Which means many countries technically own chunks of Ford.

Also, surprise! European nations often sell their municipal bonds (to fund local projects) to American companies. Using Ford specifically as an example, I know someone who works for a local municipality in Finland and travels to Detroit every so often to sell their muni bonds to the US auto companies.

TL;DR the global flow of capital is absurdly interconnected. Trying to "hurt" a nation by not buying their goods can just as easily hurt your own country.

Yeah, but American companies leave and hide as much income and money offshore as possible for tax reasons so buying something outside the states is rarely going to give money to America.

Companies are private enterprises who's main purpose is to make a profit. They don't hide money offshore, they move money wherever it's not taxed as much. And the EU is pretty rough about that stuff anyway, especially when it comes to US corporations.

Car manufacturing is also a rather tough business to be in today - definitely not the money hiding type, but rather the "we build a factory in <insert industrial town with unemployment here> if you give some sort of tax break for a couple of years".

Which is globally owned

The personal device snooping is new.

No it's not. Just the widespread knowledge of it. Happened to a friend of mine >5 years ago.

It's not.

> The current US border control security climate dates since the Obama Administration.

That is demonstrably and absolutely false.

I let you support your vocal 'false' with data.

As for Canadians in Trump era: 'Refusals of Canadians at American land crossings dropped 8.5 per cent between October and the end of February compared with the same five-month period a year earlier, according to U.S. government statistics. The total number of Canadian travellers denied entry also dropped: 6,875 out of 12,991,027 were refused entry, a refusal rate of 0.05 per cent. Between October 2015 and February 2016, 7,619 out of 13,173,100 Canadian travellers were denied entry to the U.S., a refusal rate of 0.06 per cent.'

http://www.macleans.ca/news/number-of-canadians-turned-away-...

Trump didn't become president until January 20th. That time period is still primarily the Obama era. It will be more relevant to see the numbers from February - June.

Most recent stats are for February and from the link CAN -> US travels are up 7.2% compared with February 2016 http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/170420/dq170420b-en... June stats will be released 18-Aug

And how much of that is because brown/muslim canadians, the ones most likely to be refused, just arent risking the trip? All sorts of groups are saying it is too dangerous (schools, boy/girl scouts etc).

Then Bush? Because most of what Trump tried to change in terms of border security has been sacked by judges. Travelling to the US now isn't harder than a year ago (except for the laptop ban).

it is vastly different and more difficult because of the way border agents are performing their job, not because of any change in law.

Yeah, travel to and inside the US really started to suck during the first term of the GWB administration.

To point out the obvious, that was when 9/11 happened.

Most of this stuff is a reaction to that, and it still lingers.

I was on a student visa during GWB. It was bad. All my mail from home arrived opened and resealed with DHS-labeled tape. Boarder crossings were interesting, but nowhere near those when i lived in the middle east. My favorite thing was being seated beside someone who was clearly an air marshal.... armed but asleep on the aisle seat of my row.