The left has a serious misinformation issue nobody is tackling. Just yesterday I was in a coffee shop and the guy next to me was saying Ukraine had to beg Starlink for service, when in reality Starlink gave them 100 million in free service.
The immigration crackdown is exclusively for illegal immigrants, in particular illegal immigrants who have been charged with crimes. Unless your conference is for illegal MS13 gang members you have nothing to worry about.
This completely ignores the non-gang members who were detained and not allowed to travel back to their home country (Canada, Germany). Of course that makes quite the world news headline so it's only natural for people to not want to travel to the US anymore.
Then there's the other issue where the PUSA continues to demonize allied countries. Clearly something is wrong. So why bother travelling to the US again?
I have yet to see a story about someone who was detained and not allowed to return to their home country of Canada or Germany who wasn't also either accused of a legitimate crime or otherwise violate the terms of their visa in a clear and obvious fashion. Even in those cases though, you are usually sent back to your home country as the punishment.
It seems reasonable that border control will someday make a mistake, detain someone, and then let them go, but this is rare enough that there aren't any recent instances of it, and it's not an ongoing problem.
You can say that's only one guy but if you are attending a conference do you really want to deal with that stuff? I wouldn't especially want the border force checking my phone for wrongthink about the dear leader.
The "hateful and conspiratorial" content was him threatening the president and terroristic conspiracy. People get arrested in the US all the time for a lot less than what he apparently said, this isn't unique to the Trump admin
> Another AFP source said that US authorities accused the French researcher of “hateful and conspiratorial messages”. He was reportedly also informed of an FBI investigation, but told that “charges were dropped” before being expelled.
You conveniently omitted the part where it says it was an accusation that was dropped. And no, exercising free speech rights, in private messages of all places, is not a crime. Especially when "hateful and conspiratorial messages" is just codeword for criticism.
Well he doesn't have a right to free speech, he's not American. Technically France does afford their citizens the right to free speech either, so he's SOL on every front.
My understanding is the refused entry is effectively the punishment. You wouldn't try him here, generally they try to have foreign nationals charged with the US crime in their home country, and it probably wasn't likely to happen.
Lastly a friend of mine in college was arrested by the FBI for a joke on social media during the Biden admin. They arguably take online behavior more seriously than in person
Yes, after giving them hundreds of millions in free services, he wanted to start getting paid. Not only is this entirely reasonable, but it was generous of him to give them a year of service with no payment or even promise of one.
The immigration crackdown is exclusively for illegal immigrants, in particular illegal immigrants who have been charged with crimes. Unless your conference is for illegal MS13 gang members you have nothing to worry about.