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TL;DR: Don't enter the US, it's a fascist oligarchy with zero respect for human rights or privacy.
this post was submitted on 23 Mar 2025
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If you're a green card holder, do your research. "You have to have a good understanding of what the visa category that you're coming in allows you to do and does not allow you to do," Heubel said.
Once you have a green card what visa categories could you fall into? I thought once you were a permanent resident and could do whatever you want except vote.
Yup, they seem to be conflating permanent residency with visas.
Here's what travelers should know: "This site isn't available in your region | usatoday.com"
Yeah very cool. Also I presume that translates to "We can't be fucked to care about user privacy enough to comply with GDPR". And also "We can't be fucked to know what the EU is". Because they are blocking access to me here in Switzerland, outside the EU, where GDPR doesn't apply.
Wow. Here is a free guide from the EFF, though it’s from 2017 so I don’t know how useful it still is.
Buy a burner phone. Use a newly created email. Don’t install any of your socials (not even lemmy).
Use only Signal (with messages auto deleted after being read) to be in touch with the really close friends and family.
Don’t bring your personal laptop.
If it’s a longish stay you may install socials a few days after completing immigration. But don’t use fingerprint or Face ID in that case.
Sounds like not coming here at all would be much simpler.
The neat part of this is then getting detained for even longer for "suspicious activity"
Hopefully the respective country’s embassy and place of work (outside of work, study I don’t see why anyone would want to go to that hellscape) can step in. Like check in with your significant other post landing when you’re waiting at immigration checkpoint. And if you’re not heard from after that, alarm bells should go off and embassies should be informed.
Lemmy doesn't comply with GDPR either. It's not really a mark of a bad website, they just don't get traffic from Europe most likely.
If you really need to, go without a phone and buy a cheap one there. Memorize a few numbers and use a single application to handle your communications.
I would probably be detained. I have no mainstream social media, keep no images on my phone and don't use gmail.
Just uninstall your social media apps from your phone before going through security. Download them and log in again when you get past the Nazis. Better yet just avoid the USA. Mexico is nice
The photos app can also be an issue imo
No, use a burner phone. Don't install any apps, and only have the most important numbers in there, if at all. Use a new mail account with it.
Then you'll be detained because obviously you got something to hide, let's find out what!
Can you buy a used iPhone 8 to use as a burner phone? It should not raise suspicion.
That's the reason not to enter the US.
So if you accidentally tripped the device reset by being panicked and entering your pin incorrectly a few times, what would happen?
They’ll tell you to unlock it. If you refuse, they’ll deny your entry (if you’re a traveler) or detain you and bully you (if you’re a US citizen)
Could be seen as obstruction, they will likely detain you and send you back where you came from ater a few days or weeks...all comes down to the mood the officer is currently in.
That goes for Americans too I think?
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