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Last updated on February 19th, 2026

Travel Advisories for Travel to the US

Countries that have issued recent travel advisories for travel to the US include: Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Finland, France, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Venezuela and China.

Reasons for US Travel Advisories

Detention: Non-US Citizens have been handcuffed and put in detention centers over documentation that is considered inadequate.

Searching Phones: US Citizens born in foreign countries have had their phones searched in an effort to find information on friends and relatives. Also, there are an alarming number of cases where entry is denied based on phone searches that find comments critical of Trump and his administration.

LGBTQ: Transgender travellers have experienced increased scrutiny and have been denied entry for passports from countries that don’t clearly identify gender as male or female.

In the current political climate, it’s a good idea to avoid all travel to the US. There are lots of friendly countries to visit instead.

If You Are Entering the US

If you feel the need to visit the US, bring a burner phone and leave your laptop at home. Don’t enter the US through a land crossing unless you are prepared to be detained without explanation – if it’s a school trip to the US, that’s a terrible idea. Enter instead through an airport in Canada or Mexico where US Immigration and Customs are located on Canadian or Mexican soil. That way if things get weird, you can simply withdraw your application to visit and avoid detention.

Here’s the list of Canadian airports that provide this added security for your entry to the US: Vancouver, Toronto (Pearson and Billy Bishop), Montréal, Winnipeg, Halifax, Québec City, Calgary, Ottawa, Edmonton, and Victoria.

Here’s the list of Mexican airports that provide this added security for your entry to the US: Mexico City, Cancun, Cozumel, Los Cabos, and Puerto Vallarta.

The Dictator’s Playbook – by Rick Steves

1. Establish a Supreme Leader who demands public rituals of loyalty, requiring praise and punishing disrespect.

2. Simple solutions to complex problems. I will end this war in one day. No one has ended more wars than me.

3. Cripple society. Go after the unions, non-profits, watchdogs. Label protest groups as enemies of the state. Pastors in the streets are domestic terrorists.

4. Control the bureaucracy. Purge the deep state. Fire career experts and military generals. Replace them with loyalist ideologues.

5. Create a class of scapegoats and then dehumanize them, so that no one cares when they disappear. (Jews, immigrants, vermin, little more than animals)

6. Use fear to create a permanent emergency that justifies high levels of detention and surveillance. (Gestapo, ICE).

7. Manufacture a law and order crisis in order to provoke unrest and then use that as an excuse for a crackdown. (Stasi, Minneapolis).

8. Attack and discredit elections. Unless I win, elections are rigged.

9. Shut down the serious press, control the media (Fox – Murchoch, X – Musk, Truth Social – Trump, Facebook – Zuckerberg, TikTok – Oracle. Target broadcast journalism (PBS, 60 Minutes). Ensure the news is controlled.

10. Take advantage of a tragedy or an emergency to consolidate power. Suspend voting rights. (Reichstag, Enabling Act, Insurrection Act)

11. Seek retribution, lock up political opponents. (Navalny, Comey, Chaney, Schiff, L James, Kinzinger, Bolton …)

12. Weaponize the Department of Justice to protect allies and punish enemies. (Bondi)

13. Build a private para-military force wearing masks but not uniforms that is loyal to the Supreme leader and not to the constitution. (ICE is the best funded police force in the USA.)

14. Target education and history. Attack universities and professors.

15. Intimidation through publicity stunts – hellish prisons (concentration camps), innocent victims of ICE videoed in the streets being tear gassed and dragged into the snow half clothed. These are intentional acts to intimidate and warn everyone who doesn’t support the Supreme leader.

Over 400,000 Americans died fighting for democracy and freedom the last time this happened.