The Trump administration is proposing to ask visitors from several dozen nations that enjoy visa-free travel to the U.S. to submit additional personal information before entering the country, including five years of their social media history, the Department of Homeland Security said in a notice this week.

Citizens of 42 countries enrolled in the visa waiver program can generally come to the U.S. for up to 90 days for tourism or business travel, without needing to apply for a visa at an American embassy or consulate, a process that can take months or even years.

The list of countries in the visa waiver program includes many European nations like the United Kingdom, Germany and France, as well as some U.S. allies around the world, including Australia, Israel, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea.

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    People need to seriously stop coming here. Pull out any and all business you are able and cut America off. If we’re going to act like a walled garden, why support it? Help keep this cancer contained and stay the fuck away from anything America or American.

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    How is Chile the only country in the Americas in the Visa Waiver Program? (Minus French Guiana)

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    They really want to kill the tourism industry.

    Tank every sector of the economy possible. Amazing.

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    This is protection. Protection for a snowflake trump administration against JD Vance memes. Egos in this government are too fragile for repeated meme attacks and therefore they must be stopped at the borders at all costs. God I wish this was a joke

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    UK, France, Germany, and Australia all have their own editions of the sitcom “Ghosts” (UK was the original). Trump has something against the Ghosts franchise. I’m kidding, of course; Trump isn’t cool enough to have heard of Ghosts.

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    So, I guess it’s been foreign tourists who have been planting pipe bombs and shooting up our schools?

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      Exactly. That tourist may look harmless with their camera and suitcase. But there are actually pure blooded chaos agents sent to destroy our beautiful nation. -s

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    I wish the conservatives realized with tariffs and having no tourism to the U.S. we will surely starve.

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      Maybe when the union is dead, but yeah they are speed running the collapse of an empire.

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    The list of countries in the visa waiver program includes many European nations like the United Kingdom, Germany and France, as well as some U.S. allies around the world, including Australia, Israel, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea.

    Side note: interesting that European countries are not included in the list of allies.

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    The good news is that pretty soon there won’t be any foreign tourism to the US, so no one will have to enforce this.

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      I don’t believe this will make much of a difference if people are still stupid enough to visit the Untied States now

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    If you don’t go, don’t invest over there. You won’t have to submit them anything. So like North Korea, Iran or China: stay away.