Travel bans, ICE brutality, and political interrogations at the border have made Americans pariahs. Double-digit tourism declines reveal how badly Canada and its allies are punishing the U.S.
You couldn’t pay me enough to travel to the U.S. now. I would like to see a travel decrease of over 50% from Canada. Of course, maple Magats will keep going, but everyone else should boycott even more. What a horrible country it has become and it’s getting worse now with the huge increase in the ICE budget.
Anyone who isn’t paying attention to the $170 billion increase to the ICE/gestapo budget, should beware. It provides for hiring 19,000 new “agents,” increases its detention budget by more than $40 billion (up from $3.4 billion now), and adds $15 billion for “deportations.”
Meanwhile, foreign tourism to the US is a big positive to the US trade deficit — which will grow wider as people take their tourism elsewhere.
They already are - Noem has confirmed it. Expect hundreds more to be of the same ilk. Masked, no-identification thugs. People don’t understand that, without due process, they can take anyone. If you say you are a citizen, they just can say you aren’t - without due process, there’s no way to establish your status. Maybe after weeks or months in cages in the Everglades, someone who knows you will make enough of a ruckus that you’ll eventually be released. These people have a daily body-quota to be arrested. Constitutional rights be damned.
😔💔 It’s a nightmare - for real! At the same time, he’s kissing the asses of dictators and terrorizing our allies; stripping them of their defenses. Don’t believe a word he says when he sounds tough against rvssia or other dictators. Lies lies and more lies. You know it isn’t a lie if the intent is evil❗️Always believe those words.
If anyone in your country still thinks this is what they want - remind them, donny is Not protecting maga. No one is safe! NO ONE❗️
I can not blame Canada for advising not to come here. I do not believe it is safe for them. As much as it hurts our economy I want something to cause the crack to show in their plans to destroy us from the inside. For our country to be attacked from within is just deplorable and revolting.
No one is safe in America anymore so why risk visiting? Also, why give money to a nation that is actively committing human rights abuses. I have applied for a visa to live in Portugal and I am hopeful that it is approved. It will be safer to protest and speak out from the safety of a nation that respects human dignity.
y-day was our 4th of july celebration and to the glee of what's his name and his "poorly educated "- his description of his base- were celebrating with music and joy and the signing of this disgusting power grabbing bill.
all were happily ecstatic throughout the day.
read this morning here in colorado as many as 21,000 of our residents alone could be affected by the cuts to medicare- one state!
check to see how many entire cities in your state have of population of 21,000!
could be equal to an entire city!
so every post i do, i show my name.
some night soon i could very well have a van loaded with masked, armed military styled uniforms break down my door and take me away to some dark hole where i will never be heard from.
but until then,
i'm still in denver, flew the american flag upside down all day yesterday and put up the canadian flag again where it has flown for many days now. and will continue to do it to piss off my maga neighbor!!
I have been looking at these central South American countries also. Becoming a citizen seems easier, and the cost of living is much cheaper. Plus I like the climate.
Canada and Mexico should do their advertising together. Mexico advertises going there in the winter, and Canada can advertise going there in the summer to get away from the super hot temperatures of the global south. It would get people thinking about the advantages of vacationing in each. My daughter's boyfriend goes to Canada to ski because he lives in Texas where snow skiing is not happening.
I see the US as a place that people want to get away from not go to at this point, or it will be soon enough as the next Neoliberal abomination of a anti-budget bill takes effect. That is why I wrote about people being stripped of US citizenship.
Since I am hearing more and more people in the US trying to figure out how to leave, I have pointed out that it is easiest for students and retired people to leave. I am saying this because those are the groups that can get visas most easily to live elsewhere. This is a piece I wrote for students who would like to study abroad.
All those of us who live abroad, and many live in Canada, I think it is second after Mexico, are ambassadors for the US, hoping to keep some good will for our country. Andra Watkins wrote that she thinks US citizens will not be able to give up their citizenship soon, because one has to do this through an embassy or consulate and they are getting rid of them. We also talked about how the US passport will be even less good. It is already a tier 9 or 10 passport if you look at different lists. Here are the two main rankings.
She was also saying that she has heard that the IOC is considering looking for another location for the LA Olympics. Da-uh! If the US will not give people from several countries a visa, then it cannot be a location for olympics.
So informative, Linda Weide, thank you! Excellent idea to spend winter and summer between Canada and Mexico. We are in the land of bizarro now. It was obvious by February 1 that we were quickly becoming an autocracy. I encourage all non Americans to stay away from this place.
I met up with some acquaintances who said they heard that prices were going down on real estate in Florida, and they thought that was great.
I told them about all of the Canadian “snowbirds” who had real estate (including apartment buildings) in Florida who weren’t coming back and selling everything off, the young couples fleeing Florida because of draconian laws on childbirth and the Concentration camps rounding up employees of legitimate companies.
They need to jail EVERY single Representative & Senator who supports this regime as well!! Along with the Project 2025 gang (including US ambassador a$$hole Hoekstra!)
I'm a born and raised US citizen. I'm afraid to leave the country --- they might not let me back in! On the other hand. . . if I got stuck in Canada, could I apply for political asylum??
There is but one group to blame for the lack of foreign tourism. trump, and the gop (lower case intentional), have brought this country to the brink of a dictatorship. Once ice is built to the level the gop has funded, nobody in this country will be safe. ice will be the largest military group working on the USA incarcerating and killing Americans who were born here, legally immigrated here. EVERY person in the USA will be in danger!
America has always been on the unsafe side. We have a second amendment we aren’t likely to ever get rid of and we are awash with guns of all types. The reality is we have a lot of mass shootings in every type of place imaginable and the gun lobby in our country blocks any attempt to limit weapons of war being in the hands of private citizens. That being said, we were never an unsafe country in the way we are today. As sad as it is to say this don’t come to our country right now. It carries risks we Americans are shocked at and would never have believed were possible just a few short months ago. They are real and we don’t know how long this will be true. Our political system doesn’t allow us to easily remove a POTUS. At this point our best bet is to regain control of house and senate. Then we may be able to remove Trump. In the meantime we will continue to fight him and MAGA so that one day the rest of the world can visit our new America again.
'Carney is in it to win it' Why China Isn’t Lecturing Trump About His Costly Bill
Beijing has a history of warning Washington about the safety of its Treasury holdings. This time it may have reasons to stay silent, at least publicly.
Canadian Buyers Are Dropping Out of the U.S. Housing Market
Search activity for American listings has plummeted in the wake of President Trump’s unpredictable trade war, according to new data.
In May, traffic from Canada on the home listing site fell by 26.4 percent from the same time a year ago, marking the fourth straight month of double-digit year over year declines in searches for homes in the United States. The pattern follows President Trump’s announcements to enact, pause and negotiate tariffs on the country. While there was a dip in overall traffic to the site during the same period, it was dwarfed by the drop from Canada, said Chen Zhao, the head of economics research for Redfin.
The collapse in activity from Canadian buyers follows the timeline of Mr. Trump’s trade policies, which began Feb. 1, when he announced 25 percent tariffs against Canada and Mexico. As a trade war ensued, he repeatedly suggested that Canada should become the 51st state. In turn, Canada levied reciprocal tariffs and elected a new prime minister, Mark Carney, who described the tariffs as “the greatest crisis of our lifetimes.”
Some of his buyers have stopped looking, uncertain of a changing economic climate. “We had some people say, ‘Absolutely no, we’re not going to buy there,’” Mr. Rasmussen said. “And then we have some people say, ‘We’re just going to wait and see how this plays out.’”
Mr. Carney made good on his pledge to eliminate the country’s internal trade barriers under federal control by Canada Day.
I completely understand that reaction. When the current regime started, my husband had said that I could take a solo vacation to Europe. I have always wanted to go, but I felt it would be unsafe because of our deteriorating reputation in the world. Now it's unsafe, because of how I might be treated upon re-entry. I don't even risk renewing my passport, because you have to mail the original in and I just don't trust them to approve mine and return my original. They will require women with their husband's last name to have a passport and I don't want to give up voting for a trip. The world is worse with this president and so is America.
You couldn’t pay me enough to travel to the U.S. now. I would like to see a travel decrease of over 50% from Canada. Of course, maple Magats will keep going, but everyone else should boycott even more. What a horrible country it has become and it’s getting worse now with the huge increase in the ICE budget.
Anyone who isn’t paying attention to the $170 billion increase to the ICE/gestapo budget, should beware. It provides for hiring 19,000 new “agents,” increases its detention budget by more than $40 billion (up from $3.4 billion now), and adds $15 billion for “deportations.”
Meanwhile, foreign tourism to the US is a big positive to the US trade deficit — which will grow wider as people take their tourism elsewhere.
Are we winning yet?
The newly minted or to-be-minted ICE agents could well be the J6 criminals liberated by the orange menace
The thuggish behavior of many “ICE” agents does not reflect professional law enforcement training
They already are - Noem has confirmed it. Expect hundreds more to be of the same ilk. Masked, no-identification thugs. People don’t understand that, without due process, they can take anyone. If you say you are a citizen, they just can say you aren’t - without due process, there’s no way to establish your status. Maybe after weeks or months in cages in the Everglades, someone who knows you will make enough of a ruckus that you’ll eventually be released. These people have a daily body-quota to be arrested. Constitutional rights be damned.
Hey, We don’t even want to be here! I wish my state would just petition to be added as another province !
Such a shame! I used to visit regularly when I was younger.
😔💔 It’s a nightmare - for real! At the same time, he’s kissing the asses of dictators and terrorizing our allies; stripping them of their defenses. Don’t believe a word he says when he sounds tough against rvssia or other dictators. Lies lies and more lies. You know it isn’t a lie if the intent is evil❗️Always believe those words.
If anyone in your country still thinks this is what they want - remind them, donny is Not protecting maga. No one is safe! NO ONE❗️
He actually has a few Canadian fans, believe it or not!
I heard 🤦🏻♀️ They thrive on fighting - win ‘em over with your incredible humor. Elbows Up Canada!! 🇨🇦 🫶✊
I try!
100%
I can not blame Canada for advising not to come here. I do not believe it is safe for them. As much as it hurts our economy I want something to cause the crack to show in their plans to destroy us from the inside. For our country to be attacked from within is just deplorable and revolting.
No, Canada & its allies are not crippling US tourism. Trump did that. Canada & its allies are just responding logically to what he did.
No one is safe in America anymore so why risk visiting? Also, why give money to a nation that is actively committing human rights abuses. I have applied for a visa to live in Portugal and I am hopeful that it is approved. It will be safer to protest and speak out from the safety of a nation that respects human dignity.
hell, i LIVE here and i don't feel safe!
y-day was our 4th of july celebration and to the glee of what's his name and his "poorly educated "- his description of his base- were celebrating with music and joy and the signing of this disgusting power grabbing bill.
all were happily ecstatic throughout the day.
read this morning here in colorado as many as 21,000 of our residents alone could be affected by the cuts to medicare- one state!
check to see how many entire cities in your state have of population of 21,000!
could be equal to an entire city!
so every post i do, i show my name.
some night soon i could very well have a van loaded with masked, armed military styled uniforms break down my door and take me away to some dark hole where i will never be heard from.
but until then,
i'm still in denver, flew the american flag upside down all day yesterday and put up the canadian flag again where it has flown for many days now. and will continue to do it to piss off my maga neighbor!!
Keep a loaded gun by your bed. Take a few of the Gestapo with you!
I have been looking at these central South American countries also. Becoming a citizen seems easier, and the cost of living is much cheaper. Plus I like the climate.
Canada and Mexico should do their advertising together. Mexico advertises going there in the winter, and Canada can advertise going there in the summer to get away from the super hot temperatures of the global south. It would get people thinking about the advantages of vacationing in each. My daughter's boyfriend goes to Canada to ski because he lives in Texas where snow skiing is not happening.
I see the US as a place that people want to get away from not go to at this point, or it will be soon enough as the next Neoliberal abomination of a anti-budget bill takes effect. That is why I wrote about people being stripped of US citizenship.
https://lindaweide.substack.com/p/losing-your-us-citizenship?r=f0qfn
Since I am hearing more and more people in the US trying to figure out how to leave, I have pointed out that it is easiest for students and retired people to leave. I am saying this because those are the groups that can get visas most easily to live elsewhere. This is a piece I wrote for students who would like to study abroad.
https://lindaweide.substack.com/p/american-youth-can-be-ambassadors?r=f0qfn
All those of us who live abroad, and many live in Canada, I think it is second after Mexico, are ambassadors for the US, hoping to keep some good will for our country. Andra Watkins wrote that she thinks US citizens will not be able to give up their citizenship soon, because one has to do this through an embassy or consulate and they are getting rid of them. We also talked about how the US passport will be even less good. It is already a tier 9 or 10 passport if you look at different lists. Here are the two main rankings.
https://www.henleyglobal.com/passport-index/ranking
https://www.passportindex.org/byRank.php
She was also saying that she has heard that the IOC is considering looking for another location for the LA Olympics. Da-uh! If the US will not give people from several countries a visa, then it cannot be a location for olympics.
So informative, Linda Weide, thank you! Excellent idea to spend winter and summer between Canada and Mexico. We are in the land of bizarro now. It was obvious by February 1 that we were quickly becoming an autocracy. I encourage all non Americans to stay away from this place.
I met up with some acquaintances who said they heard that prices were going down on real estate in Florida, and they thought that was great.
I told them about all of the Canadian “snowbirds” who had real estate (including apartment buildings) in Florida who weren’t coming back and selling everything off, the young couples fleeing Florida because of draconian laws on childbirth and the Concentration camps rounding up employees of legitimate companies.
Believe it or not, they had no idea 🤦♀️.
Jeesh!!!
They need to jail EVERY single Representative & Senator who supports this regime as well!! Along with the Project 2025 gang (including US ambassador a$$hole Hoekstra!)
I'm a born and raised US citizen. I'm afraid to leave the country --- they might not let me back in! On the other hand. . . if I got stuck in Canada, could I apply for political asylum??
They might not let you out soon.
There is but one group to blame for the lack of foreign tourism. trump, and the gop (lower case intentional), have brought this country to the brink of a dictatorship. Once ice is built to the level the gop has funded, nobody in this country will be safe. ice will be the largest military group working on the USA incarcerating and killing Americans who were born here, legally immigrated here. EVERY person in the USA will be in danger!
I wish we could get rid of him
But his term doesn’t expire until Jan 2029, & the Republicans who control Congress won’t 25th Amendment or impeach him.
So we’re rooting for cholesterol.
I agree with the travel boycott 100%
But to quote Trump from a couple weeks ago, "we have already raked in $88Billion from tariffs."
Trump doesn't care where the money comes from, as long as it ends up in his pocket. He is just. as happy pocketing Americans' money.
America has always been on the unsafe side. We have a second amendment we aren’t likely to ever get rid of and we are awash with guns of all types. The reality is we have a lot of mass shootings in every type of place imaginable and the gun lobby in our country blocks any attempt to limit weapons of war being in the hands of private citizens. That being said, we were never an unsafe country in the way we are today. As sad as it is to say this don’t come to our country right now. It carries risks we Americans are shocked at and would never have believed were possible just a few short months ago. They are real and we don’t know how long this will be true. Our political system doesn’t allow us to easily remove a POTUS. At this point our best bet is to regain control of house and senate. Then we may be able to remove Trump. In the meantime we will continue to fight him and MAGA so that one day the rest of the world can visit our new America again.
'Carney is in it to win it' Why China Isn’t Lecturing Trump About His Costly Bill
Beijing has a history of warning Washington about the safety of its Treasury holdings. This time it may have reasons to stay silent, at least publicly.
Canadian Buyers Are Dropping Out of the U.S. Housing Market
Search activity for American listings has plummeted in the wake of President Trump’s unpredictable trade war, according to new data.
In May, traffic from Canada on the home listing site fell by 26.4 percent from the same time a year ago, marking the fourth straight month of double-digit year over year declines in searches for homes in the United States. The pattern follows President Trump’s announcements to enact, pause and negotiate tariffs on the country. While there was a dip in overall traffic to the site during the same period, it was dwarfed by the drop from Canada, said Chen Zhao, the head of economics research for Redfin.
The collapse in activity from Canadian buyers follows the timeline of Mr. Trump’s trade policies, which began Feb. 1, when he announced 25 percent tariffs against Canada and Mexico. As a trade war ensued, he repeatedly suggested that Canada should become the 51st state. In turn, Canada levied reciprocal tariffs and elected a new prime minister, Mark Carney, who described the tariffs as “the greatest crisis of our lifetimes.”
Some of his buyers have stopped looking, uncertain of a changing economic climate. “We had some people say, ‘Absolutely no, we’re not going to buy there,’” Mr. Rasmussen said. “And then we have some people say, ‘We’re just going to wait and see how this plays out.’”
Mr. Carney made good on his pledge to eliminate the country’s internal trade barriers under federal control by Canada Day.
Dean, did you see Lev’s (@levparnas ) latest post about the recent terror in UKRAINE?🇺🇦 PLEASE CONTINUE TO HELP US SHUT THIS MF REGIME DOWN🙏❗️❗️❗️❗️
I completely understand that reaction. When the current regime started, my husband had said that I could take a solo vacation to Europe. I have always wanted to go, but I felt it would be unsafe because of our deteriorating reputation in the world. Now it's unsafe, because of how I might be treated upon re-entry. I don't even risk renewing my passport, because you have to mail the original in and I just don't trust them to approve mine and return my original. They will require women with their husband's last name to have a passport and I don't want to give up voting for a trip. The world is worse with this president and so is America.
I just renewed my passport and if yours is not expired for more than 6 months you can renew online.
And could we please tell all those border state Governors to just stay home? It doesn’t matter how much you beg, we aren’t coming back for a visit!