Re:International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees
by betaby on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @07:41AM
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
That is demonstrably and absolutely false.