Some Europeans become casual to visit the US, such as reports of the US immigration authorities that have attracted them during their journey, for reasons that are not clear, spinning.
Numerous tourists from Europe say they have been stopped at American border crossings and have been held for weeks at American immigration detention facilities, despite being held by tourist licenses, work visas or otherwise believed that they were authorized to travel to the United States
The Wales backpack was detained on the Canadian border for close to three weeks, before he was allowed to fly home. The Canadian Work Visa woman was closed for 12 days at the border of Tijuana, before she returned to Canada.
German tourist Lucas Sielaff, who drove to Mexico from Las Vegas, where he was visiting his American fiancé, was locked as he returned from Tijiana. Immigration authorities accused him of violating the rules of his 90-day American tourist license, the couple said, despite being only 22 days. Sielaff was held for 16 days before he was allowed to fly home to Germany.
Sielaff and others detained said it was never clear why they were taken into custody.
“What happened on the border was only a sharp abuse of the power of border patrol,” his fiancé Lennon Tyler told Associate Press.
Pedro Rios, Director of the US Committee on Friends Services, a non -profit organization that helps migrants, agreed that “the explanation for the detention of these people does not make sense.”
“The only reason I see is a much more ardent atmosphere against an immigrant,” Rios told Associated Press.
US authorities did not respond to the request of the Associated Press on the figures on the number of tourists held in detention facilities. Immigration and customs implementation said AP -in Sielaff thought it was “unacceptable” customs and border protection, without providing multiple specificities. Generally speaking, they said that “if statutes or visas are violated, passengers can be subject to custody and removal.”
Consider “delaying personal travel” abroad
The universities have warned international faculties and students to consider refraining from traveling abroad, pointing to the evolutionary federal federal policy of traveling Trump administration.
“From great caution, we encourage international students, staff, teachers and scientists – including US visas and permanent resident owners (or” green ticket owners “) – to consider delaying or delaying a personal travel outside the United States, until more information is available from the US Ministry of State Department for Planning and Politics Carell, she wrote.
Can trade war strive for tourism?
Recent analysis shows that the trade war of President Trump could also distract tourists from a visit to the United States Only by alienating key allies and trade partners.
Data from the tourist economy, branches of the investment advisory company Oxford Economics, foresee a 15% drop in the number of visits to Canada 2025.
An international journey from all foreign countries to the US is expected to fall for just over 5%, the report states. Preventing the reduced consumption of Americans who traveled in the country this year, the total consumption of travel to the United States could fall up to $ 64 billion in 2025, according to the tourist economy.
“The negative effects of the screenwriting screenplay will reach the US demand of the 2025 hotel room,” the tourist economy report said. “Domestic trips will adversely affect the slow increase in revenue and higher prices, while the international trip to the US will hit Trifecta of the slower economy, a stronger dollar and antipathy towards the United States”
