he's right. Which is even sadder.

MAGA is finding international visitors who are attending soccer playoff games in the U.S. who speak favorably about their experiences here.

I hope your Italian waiter becomes aware of some of that positive feedback, decides to visit and has a wonderful time.

that the FIFA people liking America means the media lied about their distrust of Trump's America.

I responded that all but one city, Dallas, had a Democratic mayor. And yes, people are enjoying being in these cities. This means Trump lied calling many of them hellholes.

The truth, blue cities, most in blue states that always welcomed tourists and are fun to be in

Accompanied by much eye-rolling. Dallas is a largely blue leaning city. Johnson basically has fucked his career.

There were constant threads about hotel cancellations up until a few weeks ago. Then BAM...



The Earth just opened up and swallowed that topic. Eerie, really eerie.

About how you can tell by World Cup if we just got rid of the leaders all the people of the world mostly get along and like each other.

But they'll gladly import white afrikaaners from South Africa. I'd imagine that someone from Trieste may be close enough to the old Third Reich to be able to argue for favorable treatment.

why in the world would someone from overseas want to come here?

Europeans in my travels. Always when talking about the US I hear fear. Now it’s ICE. Back in 2014/15 it was guns mentioned most often. It is so sad to know this beautiful country is so distrusted by others and so out of reach fo so many.

I'd love for my stepdaughter and her kids to visit but it's just not safe. And being white wouldn't protect them.

I still don't want to to take a risk with my family.

If a handful of those tourists had problems thats out of 68 million, that would be like .0000 something of a chance of something bad, you'll be in much more danger on the drive to the airport

We did a golf cart tour of Rome back in September of 2024. The driver was talking to my husband and I when we were waiting for the other family to come back to the cart. His grandparents moved to Florida, and he was going through the immigration process to join them there. He felt that there were more opportunities here than in Italy. We cautioned him to hold off making the final decision until after the election, because even legal migrants from Europe might have problems. I often wonder what he did.

It’s not worth the risk visiting right now, and not until republicans are out of power. They have shown that they’re not interested in reigning in ICE. On the contrary they keep giving Trump everything he wants to keep this going.

at the airport if there is anything on his phone that ICE doesn't like.

We live 20 miles south of Canadian border.
The Canadian are slowly returning, but the numbers are no where near what they were since Trump took office.
It has impacted my community greatly.
A 25 -30% drop in traffic is a big deal to small communities.

It's sad but mostly true.

There are too many stories of people being turned back at the airport etc. It is hard not to be able to see them and welcome them to our house, but it isn't worth the risk of what might happen.

For instnce...
The high desert above Sedona on the Coconino Plateau North of Flagstaff & it's nearby Mountains - Navajo & Hopi Nations. Grand Canyon. 1979 & 1980.
It's extroidinary ! If you enjoy that type of landscape. I do, as well *as treasure my green tree-filled* NYC area; as I sit typing in a tree filled backyard.

Some people (not me) may want to visit the very flat Plain States.
The Rockies! (Been there, too)

than a generation to repair, I fear, at this point.

to repair pent-up tourism. As soon as there is an admin that abolishes ICE, has sane policies, word will get out quickly.

fucking DISGUSTING

Every dog has its day, and there are plenty of them in this government. No offense to dogs!

getting caught up in the horror scene that so many Americans have had to experience, at times with deadly force.

not the only one with those sentiments. We all need to get into "good trouble". We have a very "unstable" what individual or criminal in the WH. He is ruining our country, and our leaders must back their words with ACTIONS!!! July 4th for some will not be a celebration.

what's wrong with living in peace with everyone and everyone getting a piece of the pie!!! instead of crumbs. I always say to myself those greedy SOB's can choke on their money basically that comes from us!!!

then foreign visitors surely won’t come. But I think they will be anxious to return once we take our government back. We just have to throw the fascists out first.

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and since last January I will not get on an airplane or travel to a red State. Fortunately I live in Massachusetts which is surrounded by blue States.

A few weeks ago I went to the white mountains to see the lupine bloom. Only bloom for two weeks a year. Plenty of wonderful things to do and see in the blue Northeast.

I'm not sure what your concern is or whether it's more of a boycott thing.

But it's fine. It's regular old America. 3 generation US Citizens are not under threat.

There are more of them in red states

I was there about 10 years ago to look at some fossil crocodyliforms at the natural history museum there. I was only there for a day, so I didn't really get to see that much of the city.

Cultural colonisation of people's minds and desires

There are so many amazing places to visit and experience throughout the entire world. People are generally just more aware of those in the US.

BOYCOTTING

We don't deserve nice things until we get rid of these sick, demented fuckheads and their billionaire overlords.

And I can place the blame on two particular individuals - Stephen Miller and Elon Musk. Saying they should rot in the hottest of hells is too good for these assholes. But Satan will be waiting for them.

Italians aren't on Trump's watch list. The only precaution I'd take as a Euro visiting the US is wiping my search history off my phone - which everyone should do regularly, anyway.

I'm seeing F tons of World Cup visitors here, and they're all having a good time.

If any tourist overstays their visa, then they might have issues - which was true before that MFer and will be true after that MFer.

Approximately 68 million foreign tourists visited the United States last year, what % had ICE troubles?

Tourists flock to the places where their money buys more.

My wife is a Canadian citizen. My mom lives in Arizona. My wife has flatly refused to enter the States since the orange hellbeast took office. She's not enamored of the idea of getting scooped up and tossed into a detention cell somewhere and I honestly can't blame her for being afraid of the possibility.

It really sucks since she hasn't seen my mom since we went home in early 2020. Every time since then I've gone back alone.

Thanks a lot, Trump.

as long as Mr. trump's jibbering his jabber, and I can't say I blame them. A nun was arrested for no other reason than being non-white only days ago. The heat from our oppressive state is too much for its own citizens, let alone visitors and tourists.

I grew up in a neighborhood with Italian and Japanese immigrants. My cousins are half Sicilian, with dark skin, black hair and brown eyes. My thought when all this deportation BS started was, would they be targeted? Would the kids and grandkids of the lovely people I was surrounded by in my youth be detained because they "looked foreign?" We received many of the refugees from Southeast Asia after Vietnam. There's a large Pacific Islander population, who are either American citizens or American nationals depending on their island of origin, but all 100% legal. They've been harassed by ICE. Our Indigenous neighbors have been detained. It was never about immigration, but ethnic cleansing of anyone not lily-white.