I've read that on Reddit and I'm now reading that Britain issued a travel warning... Adding that up plus all the things that can happen until next month, would you consider it safe for a Brazilian to visit the US is this climate?<p>Update: typos
Remembering my mom's hippy friend when the Vietnam "conflict" was in full swing. He had tattooed "Fuck the USA" on the "saluting edge" of his right hand. It apparently worked as a deterrent to being drafted. (I understand it was costly to remove after the draft was over.)<p>If someone wanted to make a statement or make a point about the free U.S., one wonders what creative things one could assign as their phone wallpaper before going through customs.
For comparison's sake, this is what the UK does:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=991kRp8KUmo" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=991kRp8KUmo</a>
along the same lines, a student's visa got revoked due to protesting an "unsuitable" side in the Gaza war. [1]<p>in the past having a contrarian opinion would get you ostracised or fired maybe. but restricting access post grant is a new trend in the wrong direction.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/03/14/video-columbia-university-student-whose-visa-was-revoked-supporting-hamas-and" rel="nofollow">https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/03/14/video-columbia-universit...</a>
I was waiting to respond until I saw this reported from a source like Reuters.<p>This is very scary. I’m an American community college instructor in Silicon Valley who does research with domestic and international colleagues; in fact, I will be in Japan this summer as a visiting researcher. If people could be denied entry to the United States over harmless political opinions shared electronically, then this hurts our ability to collaborate in-person with foreign researchers in the United States, and this also hurts our ability to hold academic conferences here.<p>It’s one thing if the scientist made threats or advocated overthrow; that is not protected free speech. But if it’s just an opinion or even name-calling, then this denial of entry is flatly wrong and flatly un-American.<p>Perhaps it’s time for prominent US academic conferences with international attendees to move to Canada, France, Japan, or some other place where scientists and science in general are not under attack by their government.
The only source is the French government? Nowhere can we find the name of the specific scientist, nor do we have any facts other than the word of the French government official (who wasn’t there.)<p>The fact that the FBI was also called in tells me that there is a lot more to this story than what Reuters is reporting.