Originally Posted by
caspritz78
The worst part of this is that advanced is defined as at least 48hours before you leave. That'S what I have heard. So no last minute travel to the US.
So in my humble opinion. Mr Cherthoff just stop the Visa Waiver program. I give a crap about this Visa Waiver program because with all the add-ons you and the DHS added the Visa Waiver prgram is a farce. Still you and the DHS don't have the balls to end the Visa Waiver because this would hurt the economy really bad. Instead you fight the evil water bottle and collect tons of data of harmless people in which the one hint who might could lead to a bad guy gets just lost.
Ditto - well said.
I will inject that I read somewhere that the 48 hrs was for people who had advance purchase tickets, etc., but that it would still be possible to buy a last minute ticket and "advance information" would be sent through another channel. At any rate, the amount of info the US govt is collecting through advance info grabs is just way too much.
Chertoff is an embarrassment to the United States and is a bloody lunatic. As Spiff said, let the floggings begin. Once the Bush administration is out, I can only pray who gets into office will spend quality time to rollback the programs Chertoff is pushing forward with, reform the CBP so that visitors are actually welcomed, and then take quality time to repair international relations.
If Bush had any common sense, he would order Chertoff to stop talking to the press and spewing all of this crap such as his recent statements about how Europe is a large threat to the US.