if you believe this guy’s account, the border guys are just getting more brazen.
He says the official then told him: “Trump is back in town; we’re doing things the way we should have always been doing them.
I remember having border fun way back in the day (2012?) and I’m Canadian and had a TN1 visa and was just doing some contract work in New York just for a bit. One guy was just giving me shit. In his broken Vietnamese accent he said: “you are trying to come to our country to take our jobs”. I’m half-Viet and I was like “I’m here to do a gig this week and will be going home” … in my mind I was thinking … “that’s a weird thing to accuse me of with that accent …”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/11/australian-with-us-working-visa-detained-insulted-deported
if you believe this guy’s account, the border guys are just getting more brazen.
I remember having border fun way back in the day (2012?) and I’m Canadian and had a TN1 visa and was just doing some contract work in New York just for a bit. One guy was just giving me shit. In his broken Vietnamese accent he said: “you are trying to come to our country to take our jobs”. I’m half-Viet and I was like “I’m here to do a gig this week and will be going home” … in my mind I was thinking … “that’s a weird thing to accuse me of with that accent …”