Posted on 07/07/2007 3:24:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I’m in the process of saving for a trip to the US (I’d like to do a 2 or 3 month driving holiday which wouldn’t be cheap). I my eyes the US has lost none of its allure.
Note to the Senate: WE’RE IN A WAR!
Too true. Getting into DC is like getting into the Kremlin.
What’s in this measure for Byron Dorgan? ND isn’t exactly Las Vegas or Miami.
What’s in this measure for Byron Dorgan? ND isn’t exactly Las Vegas or Miami.
Not to mention the several months they spent trying to get a tourist visa in the first place --along with the endless documents, paperwork, forms, examinations and on and on they had to subject themselves to.
But hey, we'll throw student visas to anyone named Mohammad and hand out refugee visas to any illiterate third-worlder who can find a way over.
Tourism is declining because people buy a one way ticket to come here and visit and then never leave knowing that the stupid Americans will never check to see if they have left when their visa expires. One way tourist visit = new illegal immigrant sucking the system dry.
That isn't what the article said. Quite the opposite.
More people are traveling. Just less to the US.
There are weird and nitpicking rules - for example, it took ages to get a change to the law so that foreigners who wanted to take a 2-week vacation summer course in English didn’t have to apply for a student visa - and there were bad experiences. I go to Spain a lot, and I remember reading about two girls who had gone to New York to take a Berlitz 2-week course and were turned back and sent back to Spain because they were told they had to have student visas (the same kind a real student who wants to get a degree here has to get). And this was before 9/11.
However, this happens in any country. Many people who have a legitimate reason for coming to the US or any other country get in trouble at the border. In the meantime, terrorists can stroll in from Canada (where they have arrived legally) at any time. I think the new changes in US passport law were supposed to make that more difficult, but since the Canadians legally accept people from just about every terrorist nation in the world (because they’re sort of Commonwealth members or affiliates, so to speak), I doubt that it will do much.
Furthermore, our own bureaucracy is so inefficient that they could not even produce the passports the law called for. They had to tell US citizens that, actually, the law about having a passport for Canada or Mexico and the Caribbean couldn’t be enforced right yet and just forget about it for now.
Whatever law they pass or don’t pass is meaningless, because the whole system is totally bogged down.
In any case, Europeans will be coming here in droves because the exchange rate is so good (for them) right now.
That is what it is like in Southern Arizona. We can no longer freely visit any of our public lands south of us, and Organ Pipe Cactus NM is considered the nation's most dangerous national park. It's a virtual war zone throughout the area.
Going to New Mexico and any of the national, state, or city parks is like a trip to Latin America. Trashed to a t and non-stop noise. This has all happened in a matter of eight years or so.
That’s sad :( I hope things change for the better for all of us...
This bill = federal subsidies to advertize tourism. Let the sectir pay for their OWN advertising, why should taxpayers pay?
Geez what a surprise Sen. Stevens (R, RINO) of Alaska supports it. He’s won many “porker of the month” awards at
www.cagw.org
advertise
sector
sorry for typos...
You said it! Although a profit sharing arrangement for taxpayers in exchange for a loan might work.
The Oxford study recommended that the United States
Britain's still trying to lord it over America?!?! Latter day Loyalists need to get a clue that Britain lost the Revolutionary War 200 years ago.
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