[Leica] OT: International Travel

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

The only caveat I make now is that any visitor who is not of Caucasian
descent would have to be an idiot to want to travel into the USA today on a
visitor's visa till this thing settles down and sorts itself out. This is
not new - I have not stepped into the USA since January 2002, when I was
appalled at the way my wife and I were treated by immigration, and resolved
not to visit again if I could help it, despite having had an US Visa for a
period of 25 years prior, and visited the country, mainly on business,
around 30 times till then. After all, the only defense we have is to vote
with our feet.....

Just an aside.

Cheers
Jayanand

On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 9:14 AM, Peter Klein <boulanger.croissant at gmail.com>
wrote:

> A big thank-you to all who responded.  We are going to enroll in the
> Trusted Traveler Global Entry program.  Tina, thanks for mentioning it.  It
> makes things more convenient in general.  It also means that they have
> already checked you out, so they are less likely to ruin your day.
>  Richard, you might consider this.
>
> And thanks for the reassurances from Europe.
>
> Passions are running very high in the U.S.  Friendships are unraveling.
> People are acting as though they might be arrested tomorrow for disagreeing
> with those currently in power--or that their neighbors should be.  A
> 24-hour news cycle and a toxic social media atmosphere that magnifies the
> worst in people just throws gasoline on the fire.  I admit, I've been
> affected by all that.
>
> I'm not going to exercise prior restraint on myself.  Our U.S. passports
> are valid.  If it's legal and safe for us to travel, and we want to, we're
> going to.
>
> --Peter
>
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