https://newrepublic.com/post/192946/french-scientist-denied-us-entry-trump-criticismhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/trump-musk-french-scientist-detainedA French scientist on his way to a conference in the United States was allegedly denied entry by Customs and Border Patrol over messages found on his phone that criticized President Trump’s science cuts.The French newspaper Le Monde reports that on March 9, a space researcher was randomly selected upon arrival in Houston for a search, and CBP found messages criticizing the Trump administration’s treatment of scientists, which, according to the agency, “conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism.”The researcher’s phone and computer were allegedly confiscated, and he was sent back to Europe the next day. The news prompted the attention of the French government, which expressed alarm.“I was told with concern that a French researcher, on a mission for the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), who was going to a conference near Houston, was banned from entering the US before being expelled,” said France’s Minister of Higher Education and Research Philippe Baptiste, in a statement Wednesday. “This would have been taken by the US authorities because the researcher’s phone contained exchanges with colleagues and friendly relations in which he expressed a personal opinion on the Trump administration’s research policy.”According to one source cited by Agence France-Presse, CBP said that the French researcher expressed “hate and conspiracy messages,” prompting an FBI investigation, only for the charges to be dropped later. Another source said the scientist was banned due to messages “that can be described as terrorism.”
The incident marks a disturbing change in how visitors to the United States are treated. Legitimate criticism of the Trump administration occurs everywhere, and it’s no secret that Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency effort has resulted in millions of dollars in cuts to scientific research. The idea that criticism of this would rise to the level of terrorism and result in someone being barred from the U.S. is absurd.
Original article in a top French newspaper https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/03/19/etats-unis-un-chercheur-francais-refoule-pour-avoir-exprime-une-opinion-personnelle-sur-la-politique-menee-par-l-administration-trump_6583618_3210.html
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB401RfGMlM
>>1393619Trump just keeps on getting more based everyday. Why do we put up with lies. Lies are attacks against the state. When someone insults Trump, they are eroding the power of the state and insulting America. They should be arrested. Anyone who speaks bad of the Don has to go.
>>1393624This but unironically.I take back every criticism I've said about Trump. No step is too far to protect America.George Washington nearly became our king but declined. It might be time to make the same offer to Trump.
>>1393624Donald Trump sucks Putin dick for free. He loves getting pissed on by Putin. He is a weak little shit who will die with a heart full to the burst by his shitty 1$ McDonald meals. He isn't a leader and he's one of the dumbest Americans who got by on the silver dick from his dad's inheritance.
>>1393619chyyNa. Russia, U asS A, new axis of . Triad of inTolerant Tribal Totalitarianism. TITTT AKA titteetee
>>1393625>This but unironically.I wasn't being ironical, dummy. But you are or at least are attempting to be ironical. Poe's law wasn't meant for midwits like you.
>>1393626Trump is a very skilled marketer though, probably the best in the business, though he is definitely sun downing. In anything else, he's about as intelligent as the median American, and the median American is a retard.
>>1393626Fuck off, jerk off, only I get to insult my son.
>>1393632>>1393633Putin LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVES sucking big ol' Russian dick for free
>>1393632>Trump is a very skilled marketer thoughTo anyone with a modicum of intelligence, no he's not. If you're the average American midwest, who buys the new improved Tide detergent, because you really think it's new and improved, then tRump's your Man. PT Barnum was a great marketer, huckster, if you wanted to come into his circus and see a genuine pink elephant.
>>1393634Rumor has it that Putin likes to suck tiny little penises for free
>>1393635>American midwest,MIDWIT you fucking voice to text
>>1393635>American midwest,American MIDWIT, wats a matta you fuckin voice to text app, you no unner stan muh ingleesh?
Time to add the USA to those "dangerous destination" lists for travellers.
>>1393619Foreigners have no “right” to enter the US, all the more so when they’re shit talking the President of the United States.Fuck off back to al-Farnsih, Frenchy.
>>1393649Read the first amendment.
well. what were the messages? maybe they actually were terroristic calls to violence. they wouldn't do this if the matter wasn't serious, no one is risking their law enforcement career over a few criticisms of Trump, for this to have escalated to this degree, real threats must have been made.
>>1393648It's a good list to be on. China and Russia are both big and powerful. They terrify the world with their power.
>>1393656NTA, 1A and every other A, applies to Americans - not the whole fucking planet. And foreigners do not have a fucking right to come to this country. It is a fucking privilege whether we allow them to come here or not. For the life of me I don't know where you people get the balls to demand entry into a country where every other nation on the planet would have either told you to fuck off or just have you imprisoned or shot and call it done.
>>1393662Dude, anyone on American soil has a right to free speech, guns, and a fair trial - not just citizens. We're not like Europe, where you can get arrested for wrongthink, or a dictatorship where people get disappeared. Anyone can say anything so long as it isn't exclusively meant to cause harm - no matter their immigration status.If those inalienable rights don't apply to everyone in its territory, then how the fuck is the US the Land of the Free?
>>1393666>We're not like Europe, where you can get arrested for wrongthink, or a dictatorship where people get disappeared.kekAnon I've got some bad news. We went through all that shit for five years.Criticizing the wrong congressman, intelligence agency etc can get you disappeared quickly.
>>1393666>Dude, anyone on American soil has a right to free speech, guns,Gonna stop you right there, Satan. Wrong. Anyone on American soil has a right to buy a gun? You sure about that? Oh if only there was some way to check thi- >l. Are you an alien illegally or unlawfully in the United States? Yes/No... Oh.>If those inalienable rights don't apply to everyone in its territory, then how the fuck is the US the Land of the Free?They apply to CITIZENS of this country. Not any cocksucker that hops a fence to get here.
>>1393657>no one is risking their law enforcement career over a few criticisms of Trump, for this to have escalated to this degree, real threats must have been made.Were you born yesterday? They're blackbagging legal residents right now just for criticizing the policies of the government of Israel.
>>1393669>https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S8-C18-8-7-2/ALDE_00001262/
>>1393673Oh shit I guess you proved me wrong then. Mexicans can totally cross our border illegally and purchase an AR-15 from a gun store.
>>1393674Maybe not but they do have a right to free speech, aka the whole theme of the thread.
>>1393676Free speech isn't a right, it's a promise by the government that they won't hit you in the nuts for your speech. This applies to American citizens only, not guests of the country, and especially not people who do not live under the jurisdiction of the United States. Video related.>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5wCl3aAMEQ
>>1393676So they have equal rights but then they don't... makes sense. Can you please find a legal document that explains why non-citizens don't have a 2a right but do have a 1a right? How about 4a? Are we violating their rights when we check their belongings (or in this case their text messages) at the point of entry?
>>1393619party of free speech
>>1393619>conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorismSo MAGAfags really are thinskinned faggots who are terrified of anyone saying anything negative about them
>>1393695Fascists be like that.
>>1393679...you mean the link I just posted?
>>1393677>>https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S8-C18-8-7-2/ALDE_00001262/
>>1393620what change in treatment of visitors i remember this not unusual after 911? like we did go as group of friends from europe to trip across USA in 2014 one girl did have to return right back at airport on enterence in NY back to europe becuse also write some dark edged jokes on socials and who did not know those TV shows what she referenced have reason to think she support 911 attacks also just quick search and you can find many cases like that like for example those Brits https://newsfeed.time.com/2012/01/31/british-tourists-tweets-get-them-denied-entry-to-the-u-s/
>>1393624So much for free speech
>>1393702So why are they being searched at customs? Don't they have a fourth-amendment right just by being here?
Sounds like just another libshit school teacher making death threats.Also sounds like bullshit because it's all anonymous trash and hearsay being reported.Meanwhile all the propaganda isn't doing much this time as Trump's approval rating is leaps an bounds above the Democrat's "resist dRumpf" platform.
>>1393674Unironically yes. Why do you think people travel to the US to go to gun shows? Land of the free, motherfucker.
>>1393765>Why do you think people travel to the US to go to gun shows?Remember that study Department of Justice did that showed less than .1% of criminals get their guns from gun shows?
>>1393766What does that have to do with non-citizens still having 2nd Amendment freedoms in the US? Doesn't matter where they get the guns, or who they are, in the US, you have a right to bear arms. In the same way, you have a right to free speech. Foreign authors can publish here without risk of going against their homeland's libel laws, and you can say mean shit about the president no matter where you come from. Even after 9/11, denying people entry for weird tweets wasn't a good idea, and that was after we suffered 3,000 deaths from terrorists. Now they're getting turned away simply for not liking dear leader? This is authoritarian shithole antics and I'm not going to stand for it.
>>1393760You realize a checkpoint search is like, the definition of a reasonable search? The same thing applies to say, walking into a hospital, or an airport, or any government building. The fourth amendment is for protecting people from getting their homes torn apart without a warrant.
>>1393619Fuck scientists. I say throw out anyone with a degree. This should be a country for and of the normal people.
>>1393790Scientists are the normal people. You on the other hand...
>>1393757You have freedom of speech. You have the same freedom that I do to praise the president and this great country. You do not have the freedom to spout lies and obscenities that tear down this nation. The Frenchman and anyone else who is anti-American should be arrested and thrown in a hole.
>>1393769>This is authoritarian shithole antics and I'm not going to stand for it.They don't even do this in most authoritarian shitholes. For all that China is shit, they don't confiscate your phone at the airport to search for anti-Xi sentiments. This is Iran level of paranoid authoritarianism.
So you trannies don't even know what was in the messages or if they contained actual terrorist threats, yet you're still gonna act like he was detained over a few mean comments. Hilarious.
>>1393841The Chinese regularly deport westerners who criticize the regime. They usually have to be pretty vocal about it though.
>>1393915Remember when liberals on Twitter were harassing every Trump supporter's boss for years. That was straight fascism and so is this, but I want it to get worse, so you mentally ill retards get your turn
>>1393954This. The left cancelled us on twitter, now, we'll cancel them in the camps.
>>1393955...you sure you don't wanna like, take a step back and recognize that school shooter logic?
>>1393955>>1393956I liked it better when rainbow capitalism in video games was the excuse for building the death camps.
>>1393957>rainbow capitalismI lean left and couldn't stand that shit. So disingenuous, and they would use it as a shield for legitimately bad games and writing. Effective political messaging in media, either leftwing or rightwing, is crafted such that it doesn't feel like a political or cultural screed. It doesn't distract from the narrative, basically. I really do feel like these game industry mongs have done irreversible damage to a generation of young men with their bullshit (especially by pouring gas on the Gamergate fiasco). As an aside, I like having conventionally attractive, even coomer-bait characters in my vidya where applicable. I don't demand it, but it's certainly my preference, and it makes sense most of the time. Physically fit people automatically get a few points on the attractiveness scale, and the average game character is usually supherhumanely athletic. I was not a fan of the push for fat and ugly characters in their action titles that some devs were and are doing.
>>1393959playing a fit and attractive character when you're a retarded non-american cripple is the same as trans people playing characters of their preferred gender. You're the same sort of faggot, and I'm looking forward to when you retards finally form your own ecosystem sustained by shitty chink slop so we can properly segregate you
>>1393963we should just put them in a camp. call it a detention facility.
>>1393959Tranny logic
>>1393624I thought the state was evil and had to eroded in the name of le free market, which is always correct. Except for the last 3 months and an indefinite amount of time for the future which is just “no pain no gain”. Fucking shiteating mongoloid.
>Illegally...boycott teslaYou fucking wot m8?
>>1393983The state is a necessary evil. It is useful so long as it advances our goals.You were useful, too. Your hatred of Trump and republicans pushed them further to the right than we could hope to accomplish. Now they will do anything to escape the unlimited immigration, degeneracy, and apologia of minority-fueled violence that came from the neoliberal order.Once the Left goes full 2020 BLM riots again, that's when the seal will be broken. And the neoliberal order will be abandoned entirely.Thank you for helping us create a new American empire.
>>1394103Tesla is to cars what Sabra hummus is to condiments. You are legally obligated to purchase both products.
>>1393619>jewrepublic>>>/trash/
>>1394206it's 3 sources
