Quote Originally Posted by Skogs
Which is why I don't want to live - or even visit - the US in the current political atmosphere. They customs officials would probably take one look at my Irish passport and lock me away because I might be a member of the IRA...
Well, I didn't get detained, and I have long hair and a beard and a rather dark skin (Well, I didn't then because I hadn't gone out too much the past month). And I had EVIL COMMIE BOOKS in my backpack, like poetry and such (But pinko poetry). However, well, my name is Italian, but I have a friend called "Al-Kiswani", I wonder if he would have entered easily.

But the situation is only dangerous if you are arabic. The problem is that it is exagerated. For example, I saw news about that illegal Pakistani inmigrant that got arrested for having tapes of the NYC Museum of Natural History. Woooooah! Terrorist thread, the guy is filming a museum! Just like...anyone could film the museum, only he is arab, so you got a threat there.