> -are you attempting to immigrate beyond your visa? Or work without permit?Have a job? Family ties -are you violent? - terrorist? -spy?
"The French government said on Wednesday, March 19, that a French researcher had been denied entry to the United States and sent back to France because he had expressed a "personal opinion" on US research policy."
> France’s research minister said a French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after immigration officers at an airport searched his phone and found messages in which he had expressed criticism of the Trump administration.
0 sympathy. One thing is to have a personal opinion, another is to publicly voice it in mass public media with the intention of changing public policy (propaganda).
Sure you have freedom of expression in your own country, but since when does a country owe freedom of expression to foreigners? when those views are plainly anti state/administration (and not tangentially opposite). The state can and should exercise their right to reject entry. Interestingly constitutional rights start applying upon entry to the country, which was rejected, so..
If this were a diplomat and they had immunity maybe it's an issue. But I don't think a diplomat would push this hard on the policy of another country, rather they focus on their own.
I personally have publicly expressed an political opinion once on the US and I felt icky, but it was related to cybersecurity so it was within my line of work.
If my opinion were (hypothetically) something about the russians and I wanted to get involved in internet governance, I would expect a possibility of being rejected at the border.
Let's respect the borders of our countries both physically and intellectually.
Being rep aligned I don't have a similar issue during dem adm. since they have open borders. But maybe the dems will exhert their freedoms if they read about this or other personal opinions, by rejecting govmt contracts or private funding, especially in startup culture
If you are gonna meddle in another countries politics, be ready to face the consequences.
In general I've seen several cases like these, but they always have some dubious quality, a canadian that was detained by ICE, ends up she was selling some thc water.
A lot of the debate in this area is related to matters were we don't have the information, that coupled with selective effects that can make it look like a certain narrative is going on. I'm just not seeing the fascist state line. Neither in the US or Argentina. And I'm not 100% sure that Argentinians are not being influenced by american politics, there's been anti state riots and it has happened that some countries have organized them (facebook and myanmar)
That said, I do see the push for power from the executive. Executives targetting the judicial as an enemy is never a good look. But I have trust that the checks and balances will at least check or balance, especially so for the US, and to some extent Argentina too.
So yeah, I'm not in the sidelines on this one, nor with Krebs on the US Russia scenario.
> -are you attempting to immigrate beyond your visa? Or work without permit?Have a job? Family ties -are you violent? - terrorist? -spy?
"The French government said on Wednesday, March 19, that a French researcher had been denied entry to the United States and sent back to France because he had expressed a "personal opinion" on US research policy."
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/03/20/f...
That might not be the only reason: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/trump-musk-f...
> France’s research minister said a French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after immigration officers at an airport searched his phone and found messages in which he had expressed criticism of the Trump administration.
0 sympathy. One thing is to have a personal opinion, another is to publicly voice it in mass public media with the intention of changing public policy (propaganda).
Sure you have freedom of expression in your own country, but since when does a country owe freedom of expression to foreigners? when those views are plainly anti state/administration (and not tangentially opposite). The state can and should exercise their right to reject entry. Interestingly constitutional rights start applying upon entry to the country, which was rejected, so..
If this were a diplomat and they had immunity maybe it's an issue. But I don't think a diplomat would push this hard on the policy of another country, rather they focus on their own.
I personally have publicly expressed an political opinion once on the US and I felt icky, but it was related to cybersecurity so it was within my line of work.
If my opinion were (hypothetically) something about the russians and I wanted to get involved in internet governance, I would expect a possibility of being rejected at the border.
Let's respect the borders of our countries both physically and intellectually.
Being rep aligned I don't have a similar issue during dem adm. since they have open borders. But maybe the dems will exhert their freedoms if they read about this or other personal opinions, by rejecting govmt contracts or private funding, especially in startup culture
If you are gonna meddle in another countries politics, be ready to face the consequences.
In general I've seen several cases like these, but they always have some dubious quality, a canadian that was detained by ICE, ends up she was selling some thc water.
A lot of the debate in this area is related to matters were we don't have the information, that coupled with selective effects that can make it look like a certain narrative is going on. I'm just not seeing the fascist state line. Neither in the US or Argentina. And I'm not 100% sure that Argentinians are not being influenced by american politics, there's been anti state riots and it has happened that some countries have organized them (facebook and myanmar)
That said, I do see the push for power from the executive. Executives targetting the judicial as an enemy is never a good look. But I have trust that the checks and balances will at least check or balance, especially so for the US, and to some extent Argentina too.
So yeah, I'm not in the sidelines on this one, nor with Krebs on the US Russia scenario.
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