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by facepalm 3403 days ago
Is that really all the fault of Trump? Not being from the US, my impression was that traveling to the US has been an ordeal for quite a while now (maybe since 9/11)? There were also famous cases of people dying, wasn't there a taser incident and one (mentally disabled?) person being choked to death? There was even a Tom Hanks movie about a guy stuck at an airport indefinitely. All before Trump.
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The Tom Hanks movie was set in Paris, and based on an actual case there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehran_Karimi_Nasseri
My reading is that the movie was set at JFK in New York, based on real life events which took place at Charles de Gaulle in Paris.
The movie was set at JFK, but it could not have happened there in real life because US airports do not have international transit areas with restaurants or shops. The area before passport control usually contains bathrooms and little else.
didn't know, thanks - haven't actually watched it.

(edit, sine HN doesn't let me reply: why would it be important to have watched it? According to Wikipedia, it is set at JFK. Watching it would not have added a new impression about that.)

Then why did you cite it as evidence of something?