‘I still have nightmares’: the tourists shackled and jailed for weeks at US borders

Travel is a right, not a privilege, Trump – The Mail & Guardian

For some, it’s as routine as paying at the checkout counter. For others, it’s as nerve-racking as a prostate exam and as undignified as being reprimanded in front of class. Which experience you have depends largely on one thing — where you were born. We’re talking about international travel. Lately, Western travellers trying to enter the US have been getting a taste of what it can be like to be a traveller from the Global South. Since President …

The United States is intensifying border controls, even holidaymakers can be forbidden entry. Even deportation can threaten. An overview.

‘I still have nightmares’: the tourists shackled and jailed for weeks at US borders

Visitors suffer hostile treatment since Donald Trump’s return to the White House

European tourists have been locked up in detention centers for weeks without explanation. Now the fear of traveling to the United States is growing. “It feels completely absurd,” says Annika Harrysson, who has canceled her trip.

Denied, deported, detained: U.S. border incidents have travelers thinking twice

Muhammed Ihsanullah was overjoyed when he received a $3,000 scholarship to spend the summer working at a camp in Minnesota.

The freedom to travel is becoming a privilege, not a right - Index on Censorship

I have a recurring nightmare: I somehow find myself in China. I’m having a great time until I realise I work at Index, might be on a blacklist, and could get arrested at any moment. When I tell my nightmare to people who work in the China human rights space they always reply with the same reassurance: “It would never come to that – you’d simply be denied a visa to begin with or turned away at the border.” After all, such has been the case for se…