Originally Posted by
triehle
One anecdote: We have an Italian AFS exchange student living with us in DC. His girlfriend and her father were planning to visit next weekend. After the new rules went into effect after the Christmas incident, visit was cancelled, because the girlfriend's dad did not care to deal with the nasty new security involved in flying to the US of TSA.
The really pitiful aspect of a decision such as this is that there are a substantial number of people in the homeland security arena who view this as a good thing.