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Re:German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigr... by amazingamazing on Sunday March 02, 2025 @07:23AM (#43229741)
At some point it’s worth considering how much political news this site can tolerate while still being “hacker news”.

Rip:

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

Re:German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigr... by twh1293819 on Sunday March 02, 2025 @07:34AM (#43229848)
People traveling to conferences in the US might want to know. What if you post on your website that you are going to work on a feature with others from the US while at the conference?

You may be detained indefinitely.

The EU should make US citizens go through the same humiliating and euphemistically termed "visa waiver" program. Make US citizens tell their whole life history, whether they have firearms experience, whether they have psychological issues, whether the are members of a terrorist organization (!) and so forth. EU citizens have to fill out a humiliating four pages form in order to enter G_d's own country.

Re:German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigr... by amazingamazing on Sunday March 02, 2025 @07:35AM (#43229860)
Respectfully, there’s a lot of justifiable political information that’s relevant, but does that mean it should be posted here?

In any case it does seem from the downvotes that this site is more like Reddit for now, that’s ok.

Re:German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigr... by anon373839 on Sunday March 02, 2025 @07:42AM (#43229922)
I think it’s interesting that this strikes you as “political”. I think anyone regardless of their politics should be horrified at the thought of a tourist with documentation being held like a rabid animal.
Re:German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigr... by amazingamazing on Sunday March 02, 2025 @07:44AM (#43229934)
There are plenty of horrible things that happen that aren’t appropriate for HN.

In any case, I concede that this site is more like Reddit now, in which case let it flow.

Re:German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigr... by anon373839 on Sunday March 02, 2025 @07:44AM (#43229939)
Move to strike as nonresponsive.