US border officials are so twitchy and paranoid that they detained and imprisoned two German teenagers ...
... even though they'd applied for -- and received -- their electronic approval for a five-week visit
Why were they detained? Because they hadn't booked accommodations for their full five weeks
they'd figured they'd travel around a bit and make decisions on the fly ... *like tourists do all the time, in most normal and free countries*
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/german-tourists-deported-hawaii-cbp-b2736655.html
Clive Thompson
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