The teens claimed CBP targeted them because they hadn’t booked hotels for their entire stay in Hawaii.

“They found it suspicious that we hadn’t fully booked our accommodations for the entire five weeks in Hawaii,” Pohl said. “We wanted to travel spontaneously. Just like we had done in Thailand and New Zealand.”

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      To anyone who was paying attention this was already a pretty clear possibility last year. Not to mention that all the people voting for this outcome also make it an unpleasant place to visit on a more personal level, even if the election had gone the other way.

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          Well, then they have to face the consequences of not paying attention to the things happening in the place they intend to go to

          Like, yeah, ideally you wouldn’t need to worry about this, but this is always a risk when traveling, and politics has that trait of being interested in you whether or not you are interested in it back

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          People who travel to shitholes like the US for several weeks at the time clearly don’t have “better things to do with their time”.

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      Is losing your non-refundable booking a worse outcome than a few nights in a detention cell?