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Old Mar 1, 2017 | 2:56 am
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Originally Posted by Loren Pechtel
Rather, I think this is CBP trying to crack down on people working on tourist visas but not knowing the rules.
Agreed. And it may be that there's no crack down on people working on tourist visas, and that this sort of thing would have happened exactly the same way a year ago, but it just wouldn't have made the news back then because it couldn't be blamed on President Trump's new, hostile, xenophobic America.
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