U.S. immigration authorities are detaining European travelers, weighing tourism
Some Europeans are becoming a fear of visiting the United States because of reports that U.S. immigration authorities detained them while traveling, for unknown reasons.
Many tourists from Europe say they have stopped at U.S. border crossings and have been held in U.S. immigration detention centers for weeks despite holding a travel permit, work visa or otherwise deeming they have the right to travel to the U.S.
Backpackers from Wales were detained at the Canadian border for nearly three weeks before being allowed to fly home. A Canadian woman was detained at the Tijuana border for 12 days before returning to Canada.
German tourist Lucas Sielaff drove to Mexico from Las Vegas, where he visited his American fiancé, who was locked when he returned from Tijuana. The couple said immigration authorities accused him of violating his 90-day U.S. travel permit rules, although only 22 days. Sielaff was detained for 16 days before being allowed to fly to Germany with his dime.
Sielaff and others in custody said it was never clear why they were detained.
“What happened on the border is just a blatant abuse of the power of the Border Patrol,” his fiancé, Lennon Tyler, told the Associated Press.
Pedro Rios, director of the American Friends Services Committee, a nonprofit that aids immigration, agreed that “the reason for detaining these people is meaningless.”
“The only reason I see is that there is a more enthusiastic anti-immigration atmosphere,” Rios told the Associated Press.
U.S. authorities did not respond to the Associated Press’s request for the number of tourists held in detention. Immigration and customs law enforcement officers told the Associated Press that Sierraf was “unacceptable” by customs and border protection measures without providing more details. Generally speaking, they say: “If the regulations or visa terms are violated, travelers may be detained and removed from office.”
Consider “delaying personal travel” abroad
The university warned international teachers and students to consider avoiding travel abroad, pointing to the Trump administration’s growing federal travel policies.
“Out of caution, international students, faculty, faculty and academics, including U.S. visa holders and permanent residents (or ‘green card holders’) to consider postponing or postponing personal travel outside the United States or postponing more information from the U.S. State Department,” Russell Carey, president of Brown University’s presidential announcement and policy, offers Brown University executive vice president in Brown of Brown Croome.
Can the trade war make us weigh on the tourism industry?
Recent analysis shows President Trump’s trade war It may also prevent visitors from visiting the United States Only by alienating key allies and trading partners.
Data from a tourism economics, a tourism economics company in Oxford Economics, predicts that Canada’s visits will drop by 15% in 2025.
International travel from all foreign countries to the United States is expected to drop to more than 5%, the report said. According to tourism economics, Americans spending on domestic travel has decreased this year, and overall travel spending in the United States may drop to $64 billion in 2025.
“The negative impact of the expanded trade war situation will reach demand for our hotel rooms in 2025,” Tourism Economics said in the report. “Domestic travel will be negatively affected by lower income growth and higher prices, while international travel will be attacked by slower economies, with stronger and resentful three-person attacks on the United States.”
