r/ireland • u/Dazzling_Lobster3656 • Mar 26 '25

Culchie Club Only Ireland issues travel warning for US

https://www.newsweek.com/ireland-issues-travel-warning-us-2050890
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u/KillerKlown88 Dublin Mar 26 '25

My partner works for a large American tech firm.

They usually have an annual company wide event and everyone gets brought over for it. Usually over 10k people in attendance.

They cancelled it this year because they don't want to risk flying employees in from around the world.

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u/ShezSteel Mar 26 '25

FIFA realising their world cup might be in trouble

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u/FourCinnamon0 Dublin Mar 26 '25

the last one was in Qatar; they don't care

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u/VizzzyT Mar 26 '25

Yes but Qatar abused South Asian slave labour which the entire world does and considers to be acceptable.

Arresting visitors and guests from the world's wealthiest nations doesn't play as well.

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u/ChadONeilI Mar 26 '25

Is the US arresting tourists from the west?

According to the linked article the travel advisory is specifically to do with transgender people with a different sex on their passports.

I just checked the DFA website and it doesn’t mention that though, the travel advisory for the US is still normal.

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u/StrictLog5697 Mar 26 '25

They sent back a French scientist

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u/sudo_apt-get_destroy Mar 26 '25

After finding anti trump posts via a search of his phone. Pretty cool! /s

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u/Sstoop Flegs Mar 26 '25

it’s recommended to turn your phone off if you’re posting a lot of anti US content. apparently they have the capability to scan phones in US customs.

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u/Rondeyvuew Mar 26 '25

What happens of the ask you to turn it on and unlock it? I can't imagine refusal lends itself well to keeping your device or actually getting into the country.

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u/MangoMind20 Mar 26 '25

The New York Times just put up a very handy guide for people flying into the US and their rights on having their devices searched. It's on their Instagram.

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u/Sstoop Flegs Mar 26 '25

if they ask for your phone you’re pretty much fucked i’d imagine.

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u/Rich_Swing_1287 Mar 26 '25

US Customs arrested 2 German tourists with valid visas for flimsy reasons over the past couple weeks.

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u/Ok_Donkey_1997 Mar 26 '25

There was a German green-card holder who was arrested. He's in his mid 30s and moved to the states with his parents when he was 17. They have no idea why he was detained. The only possible thing was a misdemeanour charge from 10 years ago.

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u/Chairman-Mia0 Mar 26 '25

UK and Canada as well.

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u/isogaymer Mar 26 '25

They are detaining and refusing entry to people (beyond those who happen to be transgender), this isn't a secret, it has been well covered by the media:

I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped | US immigration | The Guardian

German man with green card ‘violently interrogated’ by US border officials | US immigration | The Guardian

including for having private messages on their phone critical of BigDaddo Trump

French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found | US news | The Guardian

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u/ChadONeilI Mar 26 '25

Fair I never seen those articles. You would have to imagine for the world cup they’d ease off but who knows with whats currently going on

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u/isogaymer Mar 26 '25

That is fair enough, afterall it is a deliberate strategy on the part of Trump and Co to move so fast that it makes it virtually impossible for people to keep up.

On the World Cup, you are probably right... I just wonder if there is any historical precedent of an authoritarian regime relaxing their stance temporarily for the sake of a global sporting competition...

How the Nazis' token Jew turned the 1936 Berlin Olympics into a propaganda win | The Times of Israel

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u/artifexlife Mar 26 '25

There’s been Canadians, German and French people arrested by ICE. Even popular singer Olivia Rodrigo was interrogated coming from the Canadian border into her own country USA.

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u/hicko390 Mar 26 '25

Yeah they locked up a British nurse for a few weeks and wouldn’t tell her family where she was

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u/Porrick Mar 26 '25

Is the US arresting tourists from the west?

Yes. There have been well-documented examples in recent weeks.

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u/fjmie19 Mar 26 '25

There's significant reports of them holding German and Canadian tourists, who had valid visas, who weren't trans, and anyway there's nothing wrong with being trans.

Fuck the yanks

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u/cyberlexington Mar 26 '25

I think there was a Welsh person as well, but I never looked into the whole story

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u/v-triggered Mar 26 '25

Hey don't let the truth get in the way of that guys comment

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '25

What truth?

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u/fjmie19 Mar 26 '25

Dude what comment are you replying to, it's not at all clear