The guy’s global entry was cancelled in retaliation of what he posted. He’s still able to go through the regular immigration line. There’s absolutely nothing in the video about not being able to enter the country.

Is it wrong that CPB retaliated against this guy and cancelled his global entry? Yes. If the title of your post and commentary completely inaccurate? Also yes.

Newsweek is famous for sensationalized headlines. The actual article is correct, but the headlines barely match the article. This website is built for being posted to reddit, where hardly anyone will click the link let alone actually read the article.

During the election, they’d post articles like “Trump DEVASTATED by new poll results”, and it would be something like Trump being down 1.5%.

The travel advice from the European countries that have issued a “warning” is that “an ESTA doesn’t guarantee entry to the US” and “the decision regarding your entry is made by the customs and border protection officer”. That’s not a travel warning. None of these countries have said not to go to the US, just that if you choose to go to the US, you are not guaranteed entry.

The Netherlands has issued the closest thing to a travel warning specifically for LGBT people.. They warn that only the gender markers M/F are currently accepted by the US government and link to the human rights watch website regarding safety for LGBT people in the US. That page also has the same “warning” that CBP makes the determination of entry and ESTA doesn’t guarantee entry. But literally right at the top of the page, the US is in green, which means that the Dutch government currently considers the US a safe country to visit.

To be clear, I think there should be actual travel warnings against travel to the US. I definitely think the US should be yellow for the Netherlands. But I would not call clarifying border entry proceedures “a travel warning”.

I taught English in Japan (JET) for one year, and at the end I said what a lot of people say: I’d love to visit, but I’m never going to work here again.

The work culture in Japan is fucked. The fact that the amount of time you spend at work, not your actual output, determines how “productive” you are is so fucking stupid. I worked my contract hours and I was seen as lazy. Despite the fact that everything I was asked to do was always done and done well, the fact that I didn’t come in 2 hours early and nap at my desk meant I was lazy. Add onto that the fact that I only got a (generous for Japan) 15 days of nenkyuu (paid days off), which you can’t actually use because what happens if you get sick. Sick leave exists, but does it? Does it really? The one time I tried to use it, I was told “it’d be better for everyone if you didn’t”, and then had to use my nenkyuu anyway.

And that was me working a pretty privileged position! If I was coming from Vietnam to work in a retirement home, I’m sure the working conditions would be far worse with the threat of deportation looming over my head. Immigration is a band aid at best. As soon as immigrants have the opportunity to move somewhere better, they will of course take that.

In contrast, I now live in the Netherlands, which shockingly has some of the least generous child benefits in the EU. And yet, we get about 100€/month from the government in support, plus about 50% the cost of childcare paid for. My wife gets 4 months of maternity leave at full pay (I only get 5 days which is super fucked), with up to 3 years at 60% pay with a guarantee of her job being there when she gets back. We each have 25+ days off a year, which are actually used for days off, if the kid gets sick, we can use sick leave to care for it, and sick leave is unlimited. Also, healthcare for children is 100% paid by the government. And with all of that, we’re barely in a position to be able to consider having children.