German Tourists Deported From US for Not Booking Hotel

[IronLionZion]

https://www.newsweek.com/germany-tourists-deported-hotel-maria-lepere-charlotte-pohl-hawaii-2062046

Two German teenage girls were detained and deported from the United States after arriving in Hawaii without a hotel reservation.

The case highlights how minor oversights can trigger severe immigration enforcement under President Donald Trump's aggressive border policies.

International travelers face increased scrutiny under the Trump administration's stringent immigration policies. This case exemplifies how minor oversights can lead to severe consequences, raising concerns about the treatment of tourists and the potential detrimental effect on international travel to the U.S.​

Maria Lepère and Charlotte Pohl, both recent high school graduates from Rostock, Germany, embarked on a world tour, visiting countries like Thailand and New Zealand, according to the German outlet Ostsee Zeitung.

Their journey took an unexpected turn when they arrived in Hawaii without pre-booked accommodations. Immigration officials, suspecting potential unauthorized work intentions due to the lack of hotel reservations, detained them.

They arrived in Honolulu on March 18, planning to spend five weeks exploring the islands before continuing to California and then Costa Rica following their graduation.

The duo spent several days in a detention facility before being deported, despite holding valid travel documents and having no prior infractions.

It's a bit unreasonable to expect teen girls to have 5 weeks of hotels booked. They probably don't even know which islands and cities they are going to be on. So they would just book hotels and hostels for shorter periods or rental homes like Air BNB. Young travelers often play it by ear.

Do you feel safer knowing that teen girls are being locked up? I have a hard time believing the US tourism industry isn't pushing back against this. Especially with a hotel owner in the white house.

[IronLionZion]

1. I know people who have traveled by camping or renting camper vans

not everyone does hotels.

[CaptainTruth]

90. I had friends who stayed in hostels when they traveled.

This ICE BS is just unacceptable.

[cbabe]

2. ICE quotas freezing out the world.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Young people use Uber and Air BNB as they travel.

They don't think about hotels and booking ahead like older folks do.
They know they can find somewhere to stay, and use Uber to get there.

[yardwork]

4. We locked up two 18 year old girls?

Wow. We're going to be so popular all over the world.

[OMGWTF]

44. Locked them up and STRIP SEARCHED them. I hope they sue. I hate it here.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

62. It's part of tRump's "No Stinking Tourists!" campaign. All part of America Alone! policy. . . . nt

[yardwork]

91. I've never felt such hatred as I do for these monsters.

[JanMichael]

105. Perverts and sex abusers. USA USA USA!!!

[LoisB]

5. Well, Tourism Industry: Those are two more potential clients you need not worry about ever

stepping foot on U.S. soil again.
This is ridiculous; heck beyond ridiculous.

[allegorical oracle]

20. Plus everyone who read this story will think twice. Tons of young

people travel without booking hotels. Seems like Big Brother is now stalking the USA looking for people to harass and deport. So, are we really safer?

[Attilatheblond]

64. Big Brother is now stalking the USA looking for people to harass & TRAFFICK. Especially young female people?

Fixed it for you.

[malaise]

78. Ding ding

Rec

[riversedge]

6. Our tourist industry is going to suffer a whole lot!!

[markodochartaigh]

11. Most likely US citizens who have taken

the newly opened jobs picking fruit, working in slaughterhouses, and putting on rooves (using the antiquated form here in accordance with new American English guidelines) will be vacationing in Hawaii now.

/s

[ZDU]

7. Terrorism (Domestically)

We are fucked

[Emile]

8. No hostels in Hawaii?

[SunSeeker]

29. There are definitely hostels in each major island of Hawaii. And great places to camp.

Plus, young girls can get accepted into people's homes for free. I wouldn't recommend it, but it happens.

[FHRRK]

99. Can get a decent one for about $50

In Honolulu, place are/were filled with foreign travelers and foreign students.

[lindysalsagal]

9. GOP ignoring the loss of freedom in america. Shame on them.

[Ping Tung]

10. Were they not Aryan enough or have tattoos on their fingers?

[dalton99a]

12. .

[IronLionZion]

15. Hardened killers both of them

We are so much safer now

[Grokenstein]

35. Just wait for the doctored photos with tattoos. nt

[FakeNoose]

36. I don't see any tattoos on these girls. How did ICE know they were gang members?

[IronLionZion]

50. You can see the murderous gleam in their eyes

[Codifer]

66. Yup,

and those killer smiles.

[LiberalArkie]

57. Probably spoke better English than their captors.

Just backpacking around is how a lot of us boomers saw the world. Eurorail pass, etc

[Dave Bowman]

60. The U.S sure dodged a bullet with these two dangerous terrorists..

[Iggo]

67. Oh my gawd! Don't scare me like that!

[Aristus]

13. Trump has proved himself as incompetent in hotel ownership as he is in everything else.

How many of his roach motels received complains of poor sanitation, dirty sheets, bed bugs, and other nasty stuff? Trump doesn't care for anything other than himself and the power he is wielding. He doesn't give a shit for the U.S. tourism industry.

[newdeal2]

14. Not talking about the specifics of this case

But when I travel abroad (EU / Asia), they often require you to enter your hotel info prior to being allowed inside the country.

[ProfessorGAC]

68. In Australia...

...I was asked, each time, to provide proof of a scheduled return flight to the US.
They love Americans there, but they do want us to go home.

[COL Mustard]

93. Don't try to enter the UK

Without a valid, verifiable address where you'll be staying. I had to do it even though I was transiting LHR for Dublin...a whole other country!

[MineralMan]

123. Yup. You can expect to be questioned in most countries when you enter.

I went to Europe with an orchestra and choir for a series of concerts. I'm an oboist. I got lots of questions. Was I being paid? Did I have receipts proving my ownership of my oboe? Where was I staying in the UK. I answered the questions. There were about 50 people on that flight going to the same concert series.

I had no idea where we were staying, but the tour bus driver did. Yes, that's my oboe. No, I don't have a receipt. I've owned it for 12 years. No, I wasn't being paid. In fact, it cost me US$3000 to come on this tour. We're all amateur musicians. Then I got waved through.

[MineralMan]

122. Yes. That is true in many places.

It's no fun, though, if you're trying to make a point of some kind.

[Kid Berwyn]

16. Powerfully done.

Very powerful. Strongly, even.

[Solly Mack]

17. There goes backpack traveling to see the world. Well, in the United States anyway.

[patphil]

18. I'm sure that will play a lot in Germany. College kids from Germany won't be coming here this summer.

When my daughter was in College in 1996, she spent 3 weeks wandering around Europe between semesters. No plans, just went.
She ended up on Temple Hill in Dublin for New Years Eve with no place to stay. A kind and generous couple let her crash in their hotel room. I'm glad she didn't tell us this until after she got home.
Point is that young kids often just play it by ear. Not gonna happen any more in the US.

[moonscape]

58. That's how I travelled when

I was in my late teens/early 20’s - all over Europe. Arrived in Athens without a reservation, also Amsterdam, Rome … worked it out when I got there.

Traveling like that was key in building my self confidence as a young woman going solo much of the time when there wasn’t a friend available to go where I wanted.

This is heartbreaking, and embarrassing.

[TBF]

112. In their christo-fascist nightmare young women don't travel -

they are home having babies for Elon Musk. This administration is psycho.

[orangecrush]

126. This

[Maeve]

19. When we go to Ireland, we don't always book ahead

It's not like it's hard to find a room

[lostnfound]

94. Oh we are so FREEEEEE nt

[DFW]

21. When you enter the USA as a tourist, you are supposed to give your first address of stay prior to arrival

Without that, they shouldn't have been given boarding passes by whatever airline they flew in on. Even I have to do that as a legal resident of Germany. It's a little over the top, I find, but that is what is on form asked of all passengers who list another county of residence, even US citizens. If I don't do it, I don't get the boarding pass. It's completely stupid. I could give the address of a local Starbucks, and the form would be accepted.

That having been said, if they can establish the financial wherewithal to stay five weeks in Hawai'i, then the CBP staff should have let them in. It's not like two teenage girls from Germany constitute a clear and present danger. Detaining them for days in a detention facility is by far the greater offense than their oversight when filling out the online form, which the airline should have reminded them of prior to even issuing a boarding pass in the first place. It is reasonable to conclude that terrorists were indeed present at their arrival, but they were not civilian German teenagers. Rather, they were the ones wearing U.S. CBP uniforms.

When this makes national headlines in Germany (give it about 8 minutes for the internet, another four hours for the TV news), the number of western Europeans still willing to book summer trips to the USA this summer should drop by another hundred thousand. There go a few million more in sales tax, hotel occupancy tax, and payroll taxes on salaries for service jobs. Republicans and the economy, again.

It's so good to know that the Republicans are looking out for our economy. That is, if watching it slip beneath the surface of the quicksand can be interpreted to be "looking out for our economy." Before posting, I will take a brief look. If there is anything yet in the German online news.

OK, THAT took all of ten seconds!

Zwei deutsche Teenager-Mädchen nach Hawaii-Einreise inhaftiert und deportiert
US-Einreise wird zum Albtraum: Zwei junge Deutsche landen statt am Strand im Gefängnis. Ihr Fall zeigt die verschärften Einreisekontrollen unter der Trump-Regierung und führt zu angepassten Reisewarnungen für die USA.

Two German teenage girls arrested and deported after entering Hawai'i.
US-trip became a nightmare: two young Germans, instead of landing on the beach, landed in jail. Their case demonstrates the stricter immigration controls under the Trump administration, and leads to appropriate travel warnings for the USA.

[IronLionZion]

22. I would book at least the first couple nights before arrival

It's good to have some piece of paper with an address/phone just in case. Even if I don't know where I'm staying after that.

plenty of people just show up somewhere and look at what's available/affordable when they get there.

[DFW]

24. You don't even need to do that.

The first night is all they ask or require. Neither I nor my wife (when traveling solo) has ever been asked to back up a furnished address for the first night's stay. Indeed, I think the online form the airlines give us specifically only asks for the first night. They ask for a street address, or a hotel name if it's a hotel, zip code and the city. We've never been asked for any further details. The CBP people in Hawaii were being really nitpicky and unnecessarily cruel. They definitely did the country more harm than good, as those headlines clearly portend.

[IronLionZion]

27. If they don't need proof, I could just say the name of some popular chain that every city has

like Marriot or Hilton

[DFW]

32. Exactly.

The place only has to exist. I have never ever been asked to show an actual reservation.

[Sunlight]

37. Well,

it's great to know we should do this, but they only just graduated from high school, and

despite holding valid travel documents and having no prior infractions

they were kept "several days in a detention facility before being deported." I can't imagine how scary it must have been for them while in detention.

[IronLionZion]

42. Inexperienced or not, the airline definitely knows

travel agents would know, and the US and German consulates know. Any one of them should have advised these girls before flying.

[Ms. Toad]

23. Every country I've traveled to requires the address I'm staying at within the country.

I'm not suggesting that sending them to detention was appropriate. But it is common to require an address within the country at the point of entry (or before, in some countries).

[DFW]

30. That is correct.

However, no airline had any business issuing them boarding passes without having asked them for the information beforehand. Then, all they had to do was to book some hotel in HNL or Kona or wherever at a refundable rate, and enter that information prior to boarding, and they would have been good. Now, I can understand that two Europeans, especially if they had never been to the USA on their own before, would not be aware of that. However, their airline definitely would have. I am really shocked that they were issued boarding passes without having furnished this information to the airline beforehand. With the airlines I usually fly (Air France, KLM, Delta, Lufthansa, Swissair), there is no way I'll obtain a boarding pass without having first furnished an address their computer verifies as existing.

[Ace Rothstein]

38. This article doesn't tell the whole story either.

They also told CBP that they were freelancers and were planning to work while here. A huge no-no with the visas they were on.

[DFW]

71. That would be a game changer for sure.

If they were so ignorant and foolish to tell a CBP agent they were planning to work, even as a joke, they might as well have signed their expulsion order themselves. I didn’t see that part.

[Ms. Toad]

40. Depends on where I'm traveling to.

A number of times the forms are distributed and completed mid-air to be ready for customs and immigration on landing (definitely Mexico and Canada - although I don't even recall forms for Canada)), don't recall for other venues . Italy required forms in advance, but I don't recall that the airline checked.
The other countries (Soviet Union, Scandinavia, and Australia) are long enough that I don't remember the details - other than digging digging around to find the local address.

[still-prayin4rain]

104. Never for me. My family went to England and Japan in the last two years.

In both cases we had hotels booked only for the first few nights and booked our hotels as we traveled throughout the country.

[Ms. Toad]

115. I'll bet your immigration and customs forms asked for the local address,

And that you put the address of those first few nights.

[Festivito]

111. WHAT? When did that happen? I NEVER HAD lodging set. For over a dozen countries.

Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, India, China, Nepal, England, Sweden, Brazil, and the rest of South America. NONE of them.

80's and 90's for sure. When did the requirement hit?

[Ms. Toad]

114. I dont' know when it happened

But most of my travel has been 2005 or later. (Soviet Union and Scandinavia were earlier were late 80s). Every immigration form I've completed asks for address at the destination.

[Festivito]

117. We're not talking about immigration here. A few weeklong visit.

I had to get visas for some individual countries. Not once did I have a set place for day one.

[Ms. Toad]

120. The form you fill out for a visit, in most countries, is usually called an immigration and customs form.

It is also sometimes called a traveler entry form, or customs declaration form. You complete it - at some point - before going through customs even for a visit in every country I've ever been to. Here's the US version: https://www.cbp.gov/travel/clearing-cbp/traveler-entry-form. Line 4a is where the local residence goes on this particular form.

[Festivito]

125. We're sorry, we can't find the page... D-uh-OGE!

We’re sorry, we can’t find the page you're looking for. It might have been removed, changed its name, or is otherwise unavailable.

I appreciate the effort. We live in a crave new world.

[Ms. Toad]

127. Here. Try this.

https://www.cbp.gov/travel/clearing-cbp/traveler-entry-form

[Festivito]

128. Thank you. Guess I'd need to buy the new "Lonely Planet" guide.

Whatever its new facsimile may be. Plenty of addresses to use.

[IbogaProject]

25. Likely winging it and planed to stay in hostels

That is the way youths travel, so they are with peers in a setting where they get lots of interactions with similar people.

[SunSeeker]

26. They probably were going to camp or stay at youth hostels, like I did when I explored Europe when I was young.

I never had advance reservations at the hostels because I didn't know what day I'd be there. It was never a problem, they always had room in the dorm style rooms.

This is so stupid.

[czarjak]

28. "They're rapists. And, i assume, some ars good people."?

[SheltieLover]

31. Kraznov is working hard to alienate former allies to please pootin

[BoRaGard]

33. republicon facism is killing America's tourism industry

[DFW]

34. Here are the two "terrrrists" that were stopped before carrying out their sunny sabotage at Waikiki

Taken in Thailand shortly before leaving for the USA:

[Bev54]

39. I flew to Thailand Several times in my life as well as

Mexico without hotel reservations, choosing to book in after I arrived. I knew where to go but nobody even asked me if I had booked a room. My bet they did the same on their arrival in Thailand. I have known many European and UK travellers that had a one year world ticket and they rarely booked ahead because they might decide to stay longer or shorter times in a particular country. This is very common.

[cksmithy]

41. I watch a lot of british tv shows

and there are have been so many story lines about gap year world travel, after graduating high school before university, young people in Europe go traveling the world and staying in inexpensive hostels. There are also story lines, where retirees go on world travels. Never knowing where they will go next. This just shows how stupid the us is and the lack of understanding of how other parts of the world function.

[IronLionZion]

46. I guess we can't do that in the US now with hardened borders.

Sure there are ways to jump though these hoops, but my guess is far fewer foreign tourists will want to visit our country if they'll be treated like criminals.

There were also some issues with BREXIT screwing up travel within Europe for some folks.

[Wounded Bear]

43. Kind of sad that Thailand is safer to visit than the US...

[IronLionZion]

48. I visited Thailand in January

fully prepared to be interrogated. I had answers prepared and papers printed out. Nothing. They didn't ask even one question, just stamped my visa on my US passport and let me go wherever I want. I don't speak the language but I did buy travel health insurance ahead of time in case I needed to show it.

China is a different story because Trump is antagonizing them. Thailand is perfectly safe for Americans to travel and I highly recommend it.

[Vinca]

45. That's ridiculous. So much for spontaneity.

[ShazzieB]

47. Maybe these stories shouldn't come as a surprise, but somehow, I'm always surprised by them.

Call me naive, but I have really been taken by surprise by stories like this, about white Europeans (or in one case a New Zealander of European descent) being detained by ICE. We all know Trump likes white people just fine!

I was expecting a big crackdown on people of color, on people from anywhere in Latin America, Africa, and at least some parts of Asia. But i assumed (obviously wrongly) that it would still be smooth sailing for white Europeans like his own forebears. I remember him once complaining about so many people coming here from what he called sh!thole (i.e., majority nonwhite) countries and wondering why more Norwegians (i.e., white Europeans) weren't coming here. I took that as a figurative rolling out of the welcome mat to Eurpeans on his part, but we keep hearing multiple stories of European tourists being treated like criminals!

If old Friedrich Trump (Don the Con's grandfather) found a time machine and tried to enter the U.S. now, I guess he'd be in big trouble!

[IronLionZion]

49. That's why I share it

I'm used to being interrogated/hassled coming back to the US despite being a US born citizen with global entry and TSA precheck (I'm brown) But never expected I would see it happen to white people.

Kudos to Trump for equal opportunity screwing. They've thrown European tourists in prison for several weeks at a time for "working" while on a tourist visa. Very loose definitions of work. Monetized social media is considered work. Babysitting someone's kids in exchange for housing is work.

[bif]

51. Who exactly is the US tourism industry"?

That's going to push back?

[IronLionZion]

54. US Travel Association is the main lobbying group

AAA is another one for automobile travel.
American Hotel and Lodging Association is another.
Airlines have one called Airlines for America.
There are others for specific sectors like intercity buses or theme parks or tour operators.

[Mr. Evil]

52. My message to Krasnov TSF:

Nice job, gnat brain! Who's the shit-hole country now?

*My apologies to the smart gnats of the world (they're definitely smarter than him)*

[love_katz]

85. Good description.

I think that if we shoved Agolf $hitler's head up a flea's a$$, that it would roll around like a pebble in a box car.

Darth Marmalade is a perfect reflection of the cretin's who voted for him.

[Mr. Evil]

92. Absolutely!

[bif]

53. I took a year off college and hitchhiked around Europe

Didn't have a single place booked. Mainly stayed in Youth Hostels.

[JustAnotherGen]

55. My gap year

Going a few weeks to Europe and back to the US at a time - my friend and me had a Hostel book, backpacks, cash, travelers checks and a calling card to check in back home.

That's half the fun of it - not really knowing where you are going to end up.

[GentryDixon]

56. Shameful Tourism Killer

My SIL & I landed in Paris with a Eurail pass and a Frommer's. No reservations for any hotels because we weren't sure exactly where we were stopping. This was in 1991, so long before internet access. I had an AT&T calling card I was able to use to call home (my Dad was a worrier). One of the cities had phone banks in the Post Offices, but so long ago, I can't remember.

We traveled to France, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Luxembourg & back to France to head home. What an adventure that was for us. 💙

[IronLionZion]

59. Rammstein - Amerika (Official Video)

[Bernardo de La Paz]

61. When I travelled when I was younger, I would book one night for a hotel on arrival and no others

I'd spend a couple of days in a city and travel to the next one early in the day and find a room that I like at a price that I liked on arrival in each city.

[IronLionZion]

74. Yup and when visiting a country for the first time, I would discover new stuff I want to see

that I didn't know about before. So I would book it while I'm there. Tons of tourists do this.

[Lulu KC]

63. Snapshot of travel industry protesting, showing poor forecasts for 2025

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/15/trump-tariffs-tourism-business

[Sunlight]

65. In case you see the gov't's claim that the teenagers admitted they planned to work in Hawaii

Story in the DailyBeast:

After a sleepless night in the freezing cell, the girls were woken early and escorted back to the airport in handcuffs. Upon arrival, they were forced to board a Hawaiian Airlines flight to Tokyo and were told they would receive their passports back once they arrived in Japan.

Included in their travel documents were interrogation transcripts signed by the girls, which “contained sentences we didn’t actually say,” said Charlotte after the ordeal. “They twisted it to make it seem as if we admitted that we wanted to work illegally in the US.”

[2naSalit]

69. What will happen to...

All those foreign nationals who are supposed to be coming for the Olympics? And the World Cup?

Maybe those will be cancelled. I live in an area that lives and dies by tourism, will be interesting to see how badly they'll do this year.

[IronLionZion]

73. Especially when the world cup is hosted in 16 different cities

and fans won't know which teams will advance to the final rounds, therefore which city they are going to go and where to stay, and so on.

[2naSalit]

84. Truly...

A catastrophuck in the making.

[tanyev]

77. I've been wondering about that, too.

Feels like a giant clusterf**k waiting to happen.

[lame54]

70. 2 young girls in bikinis...

Can easily find lodging

[struggle4progress]

72. eek! hawaii invaded by foreign tourist girl threat! help! help!

[SARose]

75. It's always been like this

They are going to spend 5 weeks in Hawaii without accommodations for the full time they are in the US? Uh no.

Red Flag Number One - coming to work in US on tourist visa.

Red Flag number two - human trafficking/prostitution or drug trafficking.

Red Flag Number Three - not staying with friends or family for all or part of the visit.

When I travelled to Venezuela from the US on a tourist visa in the 70’s/80’s the first questions asked in Venezuela were what is your purpose for visiting and where are you staying?

When I traveled to the US with a Venezuelan resident visa in a US passport the first questions asked were what is the purpose of your visit and where are you staying?

When you are in the Customs area in airport or land port US citizen or not you have very few rights. Many Americans don’t understand this.

Nothing to see here, folks.

[groundloop]

76. Yep..... Australia & New Zealand require you to tell them where you'll be staying..... it's pretty common.

[JanMichael]

108. It's been years for me but I never had accommodations

Traveling all through Europe. On trains and buses.

When I flew from the US to Poland I would usually stop in the UK and spend a couple nights there. Never have a hotel in advance.

Traveling by train it was usually hostels that I stayed at.

I did get the what's the purpose of the visit question and the accommodations answer would usually be a hostel or a hotel once I get out of here. That was at Gatwick too.

I don't know maybe I just don't get hassled as much being a white make from the US.

[SARose]

113. Interesting

Could it be because the UK and Europe see more young folks traveling and using hostels?

My experience in South America is most likely linked to drug smuggling. Venezuela and Colombia share a border.

La Goajira Peninsula was a wild place back in the late 70’s/80’s. My husband received anonymous threats because he was in a helicopter scouting seismic lines there. Apparently someone thought he saw something. Who knows?

Thanks for sharing your story.

[SupportSanity]

79. It's all coming to: "May I see your papers, please?"

We're getting there way too quickly.

[IronLionZion]

81. Papers won't help you

these girls had papers. Kilmar Abrego Garcia had papers. Plenty of people currently in detention centers have papers.

[SupportSanity]

82. Even worse.

[AZLD4Candidate]

80. CBP is completely immune and unaccountable with 100% power at the border with no oversight or apply

I hate every single person that wears that uniform, especially after what they did to my wife.

[North Coast Lawyer]

83. MAGA need to get with the times

Not booking a hotel in advance has been a thing for quite some time. Tomorrow I'm flying to New York. I'll make a hotel reservation on Expedia after I've landed, rented a car, and got out of the city.

[Exp]

86. Insane. nt

[Meowmee]

87. Insanity rules in the USA

[Iamscrewed]

88. Next

Can anyone think of more ways to alienate us on the world stage?

[IronLionZion]

95. Oh I assure you they are always thinking of newer and dumber ways. nt

[BigDemVoter]

89. WHO would want to come here at this point?

I certainly wouldn't dream of spending money on a ticket to the USA not only because of the risk of deportation, but I also wouldn't want to contribute to the US economy. I hate to say it, but it's true.

[Marthe48]

96. I'm expecting company from another country

They had plans of landing out West and driving to my state for a school friend's wedding, taking up to a month to tour the country. They've scaled that back to landing about 2 hours away, and driving to my house. They are staying with me for a few days, then driving back to the airport and going home. I just texted them my cell number in case they get hassled in the airport or along the way.
My kids went to Ireland last week, came back yesterday. They said they didn't have any trouble heading out. They had to go through an extra step in customs in Ireland to return, but that step reduced the amount of time getting through customs in the U.S. They thought the process went smoothly.

[ecstatic]

97. glad they made it out alive. Seriously

What a disgraceful country this has become.

[Blasphemer]

98. Two white girls unfairly strip searched? This will leave the MAGATs twisting in knots. nt

[Historic NY]

100. I've winged its dozens of time going w/o a hotel until I arrived here in the US

and Canada..I'd look for something clean and cheap.Hawaii hotels are expensive getting word of mouth for a cheap place on the street is what most kids would do.

[Old Crank]

101. Strip searched is essentially raped

By the people detaining them. Probably includes a body cavity search also.

Just a bunch of thugs at the borders.

[pansypoo53219]

102. THATS why? oy vey. the stupid. stay home earth til the rat basturd is gone in 2029.

[augyboston]

103. "Your Papers Please!"

"Your papers, please!" is a phrase commonly associated with police state settings, where functionaries demand identification from civilians. It's a trope used to represent the erosion of individual liberties and the imposition of strict control. The phrase gained popularity through its use in the 1942 film Casablanca, which depicted life in Vichy-controlled Casablanca during World War II.

[Prairie_Seagull]

107. You beat me to it. Shit it's early.

[Prairie_Seagull]

106. How the fuck is this anyones business.

We are not in a war or even a confrontation with Germany.

Papers please!

WTF

[IronLionZion]

109. Add USA to list of countries that are dangerous for young women to visit

many countries have added travel advisories for USA. They don't like how our government is treating their citizens who clearly did nothing wrong. They had papers. They just didn't have a hotel booking. They should say Trump hotel and see if that works.

[travelingthrulife]

110. When I was younger we never booked hotels in advance It opened up a lot of wonderful adventures.

Soon, no one will visit this country.

[bdamomma]

116. The US is

going to be off the market for tourism, while other countries will reap the business. And they will and are.

Impeach this SF!!!

[Ping Tung]

118. Another indicator of America's restored Greatness? Will there be parades, marching bands, celebrating

the opening ceremonies of our Made In America Gulags?

[IronLionZion]

121. Cheeto wants a big authoritarian style military parade

guaranteed to tear up the streets of our capital city while efficiently wasting our tax dollars. MAGA!

[Bleacher Creature]

119. The 2026 World Cup and 2028 Olympics are going to be a disaster

Why would anyone travel here given all of these stories?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

124. This stunt will further kill any tourism