• ZDL ( ZDL@lazysoci.al ) 
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        Having a strict policy of never setting foot on US soil does wonders for not having to worry about Trump’s latest brain fart.

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            They haven’t come for us in Canada yet, and in fact are in the “finding out” phase of the lesson in why they shouldn’t.

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                We also have people effectively indistinguishable from them which would make us invisible in the war of resistance, allowing operations deep behind enemy lines.

                Keep in mind the USA couldn’t win a war with people who looked very different from them. Oh, wait. That doesn’t narrow it down very much at all. I mean I could be talking about Vietnam here. Or Somalia. Or Pakistan. Or Afghanistan. Or …

                Whichever I meant, though, the USA has consistently shown its inability to hold territory even when “us vs. them” was pretty clear to establish. What chance do you think they’ll have when faced with people who look and talk just like them?

  • What happens if you don’t have social media?

    Or like you just change your public name when you travel?

    Or like say you don’t? I have this feeling these people don’t actually give two shits to go find out if you lied about that or not

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      Obviously they’ll just search for the username in their “metadata only” database to check if you were lying. It’s just like taxes: they know about everything already, they just want to check if you’re honest or can add another datapoint to hang you with.

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            If you pay wrong amount, they mail you the amount you owe.

            Why bother? Because you aren’t thinking of the middle man!

            Also if you’re wealthy and can afford great lawyers you can save a good amount more because IRS won’t bother.

          • AlexLost ( AlexLost@lemm.ee ) 
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            Because they don’t know all the idiosyncracies of your return, but they can find a lot of it really easily, and why you need to justify why you might qualify for x rebate on y amount. You also don’t owe your tax until it’s due, as many contractors and businesses pay their total tax at one time and not spread out like us plebs do, so filing a return just became the default for everyone.

  • Dr. Bob ( DrBob@lemmy.ca ) 
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    It’s for F, M, and J visas, not tourists. F visas are for academic students, M is for vocational/non-academic study, and J is for work/study programs. None of them are for immigration.

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      As a tourist applying for USA visa waiver they wanted social media username/links. But they only had slots for Facebook, twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. Apparently fediverse hasn’t hit their radar.

      • ZDL ( ZDL@lazysoci.al ) 
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        No Facebook since 2016. No Twitter since … I want to say 2021? It was sometime after the COVID-19 blow-up, fairly soon afterward. Never had Instagram or LinkedIn.

        I guess I get bounced.

        No, wait! They can’t bounce me! I swore off setting foot on US soil ever again in 1999.

  • skisnow ( skisnow@lemmy.ca ) 
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    Apart from all the other concerns, given the way both ICE and Trump have behaved the last six months, it’s not beneath them to grant you a visa first, let you enter the country, cancel your visa and lock you up.