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Denied, deported, detained: U.S. border incidents have travelers thinking twice
NBC News | Comcast ^ | March 29, 2025 | By Mithil Aggarwal (D-NBC)

Posted on 03/29/2025 4:14:36 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Muhammed Ihsanullah was overjoyed when he received a $3,000 scholarship to spend the summer working at a camp in Minnesota.

But after several travelers from Western nations were detained or deported as part of the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration, the 20-year-old British citizen from Leicester, England, is planning on carrying a burner phone when he comes to the U.S. in May. That’s if he ends up going at all.

“I have a very, you know, stereotypical name as well,” Ihsanullah told NBC News.

He might swap out devices, he said, “just so that I have the added security of knowing that no one’s going to go through my phone.”

Potential U.S. visitors such as Ihsanullah are expressing growing uncertainty about their travel plans amid the crackdown and warnings from U.S. embassies in more than a dozen countries, like the one in Sweden that said anyone entering the U.S. on a visa is a “guest” and if you lie about your intended behavior while in the country, "You’re out.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: border; illegalaliens; media; press
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1 posted on 03/29/2025 4:14:36 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Good!

The less friendly we appear to certain groups the less we get them here and the let’s desire to drown us in multiculturalism become less and less a possibility.


2 posted on 03/29/2025 4:28:51 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Trump has all the right enemies, DeSantis has all the wrong friends.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“He might swap out devices, he said, “just so that I have the added security of knowing that no one’s going to go through my phone.”

What’s on your phone there Mr I got a stereotypical name? “Security” from WHAT?


3 posted on 03/29/2025 4:32:27 AM PDT by TalBlack (Their god is government. Prepare for a religious war.)
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Here’s a tip. Carrying a burner phone looks even more suspicious. It indicates deception.


4 posted on 03/29/2025 4:33:34 AM PDT by Not_Who_U_Think (=)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What kind of “camp” in Minnesota?🤔😎


5 posted on 03/29/2025 4:34:15 AM PDT by blitz128
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well carrying a burner phone sounds suspicious to me. Yeah, what camp is in Minnesota?


6 posted on 03/29/2025 4:36:54 AM PDT by yldstrk (Nothing like the truth)
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To: blitz128

“What kind of “camp” in Minnesota?🤔😎”

Junior Jihadis?


7 posted on 03/29/2025 4:37:10 AM PDT by PTBAA
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Suggestion: Just stay home.


8 posted on 03/29/2025 4:39:55 AM PDT by wetgundog
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How unfortunate to be born with a terrorist name.


9 posted on 03/29/2025 4:40:15 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: blitz128

There is a lot of canoeing up in the boundary waters.


10 posted on 03/29/2025 4:44:00 AM PDT by Lisbon1940 (Don’t want to hurt no kangaroos )
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To: PTBAA

How to marry your sibling and become a US representative in just few easy steps😎


11 posted on 03/29/2025 4:44:46 AM PDT by blitz128
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To: Lisbon1940

lol, I am sure that is what the camp is for, when I go canoeing I always buy a burner phone so my communications can’t be tracked😂


12 posted on 03/29/2025 4:46:36 AM PDT by blitz128
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Meanwhile, from the UK...

The UK has responded to the refusal by Gab to obey UK censorship law - by threatening to go after any other American who provides services to them. This is outrageous. The White House needs to intervene.

From Germany...

German Governments Ban Police From Joining AfD

Violent Crime, Rape Soars in Germany, Number of ‘Non German’ Suspects Up

13 posted on 03/29/2025 4:47:18 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: Not_Who_U_Think

After Jan 6 I bought a burner to use when going to rallies in DC. Don’t need it anymore.


14 posted on 03/29/2025 5:01:56 AM PDT by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Updates...

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FWIW, I wouldn't trust any numbers coming out of Myanmar.

15 posted on 03/29/2025 5:02:24 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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“What kind of “camp” in Minnesota?🤔😎”

Probably something run by Tampon Tim.


16 posted on 03/29/2025 5:02:54 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

wonderful news!


17 posted on 03/29/2025 5:03:33 AM PDT by b4me (Pray, and let God change you. He knows better than you or anyone else, who He made you to be.)
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To: TalBlack

““He might swap out devices, he said, “just so that I have the added security of knowing that no one’s going to go through my phone.””

This made no sense. I recalled dealing with Muslims while in college and later in the workplace. They had no idea how anything worked and had therefore developed superstitions about how things worked. I suspect that’s what’s going on here. These are people with a ninth century culture interacting with twenty-first century technology. As students and workers, they were dangerously stupid to have around.


18 posted on 03/29/2025 5:07:21 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (I had a tagline and I dropped it. The cat back-pawed it under the Barcalounger. )
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To: SharpRightTurn

How to become a man’s man like me
8am hand waving
9am dancing
10am firearm mishandling
11am tampon dispenser installations
12am sushi lunch
1pm how to look like a deer in the headlights
2pm manly hat display and wearing
3pm nap time
…..


19 posted on 03/29/2025 5:07:25 AM PDT by blitz128
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Muhammad at Summer Camp we can do without.


20 posted on 03/29/2025 5:15:21 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Islam’s Strategy is Effective: Out-breed and murder everyone else. What to do?)
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