>I can't imagine this situation does wonders for American tourism or business.
The US appears to be the second most common tourist destination in the world, with about 75 million arrivals in 2014 alone[0][1], so I guess it's doing just fine, and is not actually a nightmarish police state, and most people come and go without incident. Feel free to jaywalk with impunity.
The US appears to be the second most common tourist destination in the world, with about 75 million arrivals in 2014 alone[0][1], so I guess it's doing just fine, and is not actually a nightmarish police state, and most people come and go without incident. Feel free to jaywalk with impunity.
[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Tourism_rankings
[1]http://travel.trade.gov/outreachpages/download_data_table/Fa...
^Yes, it's a PDF.