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Re:International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees by beedogs on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @07:25AM (#14254737)
> The current US border control security climate dates since the Obama Administration.

That is demonstrably and absolutely false.

Re:International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees by betaby on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @07:41AM (#14254841)
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-...

Re:International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees by birdline on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @08:20AM (#14255041)
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.
Re:International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees by betaby on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @11:39AM (#14256671)
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
Re:International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees by sandworm101 on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @11:43AM (#14256715)
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).
Re:International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees by dx034 on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @07:38AM (#14254817)
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).
Re:International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees by pyvpx on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @07:42AM (#14254852)
it is vastly different and more difficult because of the way border agents are performing their job, not because of any change in law.
Re:International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees by Canada on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @07:40AM (#14254835)
Yeah, travel to and inside the US really started to suck during the first term of the GWB administration.
Re:International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees by bluejekyll on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @09:58AM (#14255656)
To point out the obvious, that was when 9/11 happened.

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

Re:International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees by sandworm101 on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @11:50AM (#14256808)
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.