Perspective with Ryan Bridge: What will Trump's border crackdown do to tourism?

Donald Trump has every right to crack down on the American border. There are problems there that we, down here in little old New Zealand, just don't understand.

Illegal migration sounds to us like a far away and non-threatening concept because, well, it is. Thank you, ocean.

And if you believe everything the liberal international media serves up and that this is an issue invented by tyrants like Trump to retain their grip on power, look at Starmer, the lovely leftie Labour leader of Great Britain.

In case you missed it - Starmer, this week, has signed a piece of paper asking Europe to kindly redefine human rights because the current definition is a little too generous.

Yes, Labour's man at number 10 wants to narrow human rights. He wants to be able to kick more asylum seekers out of Britain, because the cost and burden of daily arrivals of boats is simply unsustainable. And the British public had enough of it long ago. Enter Farage.

So this is not a figment of a dictators' imagination, but a genuine political problem.

So, back to Trump. He's cracking down at the border and new rules are coming for us Kiwis, and other visa waiver countries. This applies to tourists - a visit to Hawaii is all it takes.

In order to gain entry, you will have to hand over five years of your social media activity. It's mandatory. You'll also need to supply your telephone numbers for the past five years and email addresses for the past decade.

Now, I'm no terrorist - but this sounds like a lot. So I probably won't be visiting America anytime soon. Too hard basket. If you had to go for a funeral or and event or something important, you would. But to be honest, I'll probably just go to Mexico.

Getting over the bureaucratic wall to the States is feeling a little too hard basket.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Donald Trump has every right, as every president does, to
crack down on the American border. There are problems there
that we down here in safe little old New Zealand
just do not understand. Illegal migration sounds to us like
a far away and non threatening concept, because well it is.
Thank you, ocean, if you believe everything that the liberal

(00:21):
international media serves up on a silver platter for you,
and that this is an issue invented by tyrants like
Trump to retain their grip on power, explain Starmer, the
lovely lefty Labour leader of Great Britain. In case you
missed it, Starmer this week has signed a piece of
paper asking Europe to kindly redefine human rights because the

(00:44):
current definition is well a little too generous, thank you
very much. Yes, Labour's man at number ten wants to
narrow human rights. He wants to be able to kick
more asylum seekers out of Britain because the cost, the burden,
the daily arrivals of boats simply unsustainable and the British
public had enough of it ages ago. Enter Farage right.

(01:06):
So this is not a figment of a dictator's imagination,
but a genuine political problem. Back to Trump, He's cracking
down at the border friend or foe, and new rules
are coming for US keyweks and other visa wayver countries.
These apply to terroists, So a visit to Hawaii is
all it's going to take for you. In order to

(01:27):
gain entry, you will have to hand over five years
of your social media activity. It's a Manda tree by
the way. You're going to have to do this, this
is their intention. You'll need to supply your telephone numbers
for every phone number you've used in the past five years.
Can you even remember every email address that you have
used for the past decade? How many jobs have you

(01:47):
had in that time? How many work email addresses have
you had in that time? Can you remember them all?

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Now?

Speaker 1 (01:53):
I'm no terrorist, but this sounds like a lot, doesn't it.
So I probably won't be visiting America anytime soon. If
you had to go for a funeral, if you had
to go for an event, something important, you would, But
to be honest, I'd probably on balance. Just go to.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
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