“I know why, and it’s because my president is threatening to annex your country.”
It’s far more than that. The Trump administration is lawless, ignoring and defying the courts, and trampling on the constitution. My son’s school just cancelled a long planned trip to New York City because of the very real risk that one of more of the children in the trip might be held, handcuffed, and thrown in ICE detention for days or weeks. Under the current authoritarian regime it is unsafe for anyone to travel to the US.
I will return to New York, one day. I loved visiting the Big Apple. But not now. Not unless Trump is out of the office, in prison, or both.
Just because random extrajudicial kidnappings by ICE aren’t happening to everyone, doesn’t mean it can’t happen to anyone.
Trump is just a symptom of a much larger problem. The U.S. is federally fucked and will remain so for a long time - I don’t see myself ever going back again.
I won’t feel safe enough to go back ever. Even if all the politicians get voted out or imprisoned the ICE and CBP agents who are kidnapping people will still be employed.