Border Agents Refuse Entry To Foreigners Who Oppose Trump

It only took one day in office for Trump to boost our border security, just like he promised. Apparently, in a new, Trumpian, interpretation of our immigration laws it is not just illegal immigrants border security will be cracking down on, as though they haven’t been doing that all along. Now, it appears, that we will not allow legal visitors to come to this country if they might disagree with Donald Trump. Visitors from Canada who were coming down to Washington DC to join the march, or even go to the inauguration and the march, were denied entry into the United States, held at the border, and then released with the admonition that they would need to obtain a visa to enter the US going forward. Some had their cars and phones searched and were fingerprinted and photographed. Others were told they would be arrested if they tried to enter the US in the next few days or months. One Canadian reported being interrogated about his political beliefs with respect to Trump. According to the man, “The first thing he [the border agent] asked us point blank is, ‘Are you anti- or pro-Trump?’…It felt like, if we had been pro-Trump, we would have absolutely been allowed entry.” I wonder how many Muslims have already been denied entry in a similar manner, simply because of their faith. I will leave it up to the ingenuity of Justin Trudeau to come up with the proper retaliation for this attack on Canadian citizens to exercise their right of travel to the US.