Will BIPOC travelers face increased scrutiny / hurdles / roadblocks when returning to the US after the inauguration?

[Anonymous]

Just wondering if others are concerned about what Homan and company are promising once they get into power.

[Anonymous]

No.

[Anonymous]

Also no. There's no need for paranoia.

[Anonymous]

Will probably go something like this.

https://youtu.be/wbIXmB2ZLmA?si=vtO4QGPlpUi6wUU2

[Anonymous]

No one in my family has ever been an immigrant so this is something I have never thought about of think about.

[Anonymous]

Green Card and student visa holders were trapped outside the U.S. when Trump enacted his "Muslim ban" in 2017. They had left the U.S. for a vacation or business trips and then could not get back in.

If you're on a Green Card or student visa from one of the Muslim-majority countries, I'd be very hesitant to leave the U.S.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one in my family has ever been an immigrant so this is something I have never thought about of think about.

Lucky you. As a Muslim immigrant, this is something my family and I have to think about every time we travel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one in my family has ever been an immigrant so this is something I have never thought about of think about.

Lucky you. As a Muslim immigrant, this is something my family and I have to think about every time we travel.

Yes this is my point--the BIPOC categorization or even POC categorization make no sense. We do not any short of shared affinity or experience.

[Anonymous]

We are French but not white. The worst treatment we ever received by a border officer was at Niagara Falls 12 years ago. The officer yelled at my husband, spit flying off his face, and called him a liar, and that he was trying to enter the US illegally. The entire office was staring at us. My 2 year old was crying. It wasn't until the manager came out of his office with our papers and told him we were allowed to enter that he stopped.

It all happened right under the sign every border office has that says they will always treat everyone with respect. I wanted to point to it, but in the mood he was in, he might have kicked us out. Border officers have ultimate power of decision in the moment, and if you're kicked out it stays on your record and makes future visas or green cards harder to get. If you get an aggressive one, you have absolutely no power, you cannot respond in kind, you cannot do anything except try to stay calm and explain yourself. And they know it. You cannot complain to their supervisor, there is no system to send anything up the chain.

I believe many people who want border control jobs in the first place are people who enjoy dominating others. The cruelty is the point, sometimes, and that's regardless of which administration is in the White House.

Every time we land at Dulles, we wait in line for 1-2 hours (no chairs - our kids have slept on the floor), and the officers are grumpy 99% of the time. There was only one who was nice, in all the 20 years I've lived in the US on a visa.
But none of them came close to that horror at Niagara Falls.

[Anonymous]

Go to 3:20 in this video and you’ll see how it’ll work:

https://youtu.be/fbhz3XcNzGU?si=YmIeIJ7lskc8Xabp

[Anonymous]

I am a lawyer and I don't think OP is a nut at all. Every immigration and criminal defense attorney I know is planning on Trump doing exactly what Stephen Miller and he have promised to do- which is deport millions of people. You cannot accomplish that without impacting legal residents and their families. And every country they are focused on are countries with people of color, not Europe or Oceania. That being said, I think folks with a US passport don't have much to worry about. But if you are a green card holder and a person of color expect additional scrutiny. And if you have other status, I would only leave if you have to or leave permanently. It will be ugly.

[Anonymous]

Just don’t be an undocumented traveler, illegal in any way or have any kind of a criminal record. It’s not because of your BIPOC or LMNOP status. They will have their hands full.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a lawyer and I don't think OP is a nut at all. Every immigration and criminal defense attorney I know is planning on Trump doing exactly what Stephen Miller and he have promised to do- which is deport millions of people. You cannot accomplish that without impacting legal residents and their families. And every country they are focused on are countries with people of color, not Europe or Oceania. That being said, I think folks with a US passport don't have much to worry about. But if you are a green card holder and a person of color expect additional scrutiny. And if you have other status, I would only leave if you have to or leave permanently. It will be ugly.

Yes indeed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just don’t be an undocumented traveler, illegal in any way or have any kind of a criminal record. It’s not because of your BIPOC or LMNOP status. They will have their hands full.

Or just be white.

[Anonymous]

Well, I doubt they will be adding that many CBP officers at airports, so are they gonig to waste more time and have worse metrics due to longer wait times?

For example, Texas is 39.6% white = 60% of people in Texas are BIPOC. Are they going to scrutinize the majority of travelers? That will take forever, and complaints will be flying in to Congresspeople from all over.