So, will tariffs offset this loss to the US economy? I think not.
"As international tourists pull back on U.S. travel and purchases, $90 billion in lost revenue looms"
#USA #travel #USTourismIsDead
#Safety #Prison #Privacy
#HumanRights
#Crime #Border #ConcentrationCamp
American citizens detained after short trip to Canada
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/us-citizen-says-he-and-his-wife-detained-without-explanation-after-returning-from-canada/
The shuttered DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties “was one of the very few tools we had to check ICE, to hold ICE accountable,” immigration lawyer Sophia Genovese said. “Now you see them speeding to complete authoritarianism.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/homeland-security-crcl-civil-rights-immigration-border-patrol-trump-kristi-noem?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
B.C.-U.S. border town store offers low exchange rate to lure shoppers this Easter
Ali Hayton, the owner of the marketplace, told Global News that the exchange rate has been tough for Canadians and Americans the past number of years.
#business #exchangerate #border #shopping #BC #US
https://globalnews.ca/news/11139264/bc-us-border-town-store-low-exchange-rate-point-roberts/
Search underway for woman, 2 young children near Quebec-U.S. border
A search and rescue operation is underway for a woman and two young children who are believed to have crossed the border from the United States into Canada overnight.
#search #rescue #border #Quebec #US #Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/migrants-quebec-usa-border-1.7512807?cmp=rss
Over the past several years, the #Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) has quietly built out an expansive #surveillance apparatus—one that’s increasingly powered by artificial intelligence. Experts say legislative efforts to safeguard privacy don't go nearly far enough. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-surveillance-arsenal-artificial-intelligence-lege/
Woman, 2 young kids missing after trying to cross border into Canada: RCMP
RCMP say the three people are missing in the woods near the Quebec border with the U.S. after they were part of a group attempting to cross into Canada.
#missing #accident #border #Canada #Quebec #US
https://globalnews.ca/news/11137224/woman-2-kids-missing-border-crossing-canada-us/
In books: While “restoring the rule of law” to the U.S.-Mexico border has been a resonant and repeated talking point for successive administrations, it is the border walls that they have built, not the border itself, that are lawless.
https://www.texasobserver.org/the-lawless-border-wall/
US citizen says he was detained returning from Canada #CBP #Nazi #Border #Immigration
#ICYMI: “People are scared to go out because they go out with their kids, and they don’t want to go to a place where (people are) going to show up with guns to check whether they’re a U.S. citizen or not. That was very upsetting for a lot of people.”
https://www.texasobserver.org/ice-raids-abbys-bakery-valley-los-fresnos/
In our magazine: Operation Lone Star, Gov. Greg Abbott's ever-growing #border boondoggle, has unleashed a massive windfall for private contractors. Justin Miller examines who some of the biggest "winners" are ...
https://www.texasobserver.org/abbott-operation-lone-star-contractors-bonanza/
In #books: For too long, the story of El Paso told by Hollywood filmmakers, news reporters, and cowboy historians has been that of a Wild West frontier town full of outlaws. ... These self-perpetuating tropes still predominate in mass #media.
https://www.texasobserver.org/el-paso-untold-story/
This is what travelling to the U.S. is like as a Canadian right now
When I booked my flight from Canada to the United States last year, I didn't anticipate U.S. border rules to tighten so drastically.My friends had set an April 2025 date for their wedding in Orlando, Florida, well before Donald Trump became America's 47th president.Little did we know that ...
#travel #politics #immigration #border #Canada #UnitedStates
https://www.blogto.com/travel/2025/04/what-travelling-us-canadian-right-now/
well, ya dont say. we know trump and maga loves money, why dont they wont this money? hmmmmmm
the border is basically closed to LEGAL immigration right now, yall know that right, no visas being issued either? yall cool with that i guess?
#EconNewsie #tariffs #immigration #border #cbp #deportation
Trump has reportedly urged Congress to authorize $175 billion for border security, more than 10 times what was spent during his first term.
Meanwhile, border residents in Texas and Arizona say their basic needs — like safe drinking water and hospital access — aren’t being met.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-border-security-spending-texas-arizona?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Finland keeps its border with Russia closed "until further notice".
The Interior Ministry says there is still a risk that re-opening border checkpoints could lead to large numbers of migrants arriving at the Finnish border from the Russian side.
Nearly 900,000 fewer people went to the U.S. in March as cross-border travel plummets
The number of cross-border travellers going from Canada to the U.S. dropped by nearly 900,000 in March compared to the same month last year, according to the latest U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data — easily one of the worst year-over-year drops recorded outside of t...
#travel #border #economics #US #Canada #News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cross-border-trips-us-900-thousand-1.7511090?cmp=rss
