These are practices that have been going on for a few years. Everybody is thinking this is a new Trump-era thing, which is not true. It is large scale confirmation bias. Making life decisions (not visiting the US) based off a knee-jerk reaction from reading a huffpo article is not helping.

I understand that for foreigners to see trump sworn into office and then all of these stories pop up would make them think america has changed so recently, but its not true. It like an episode of the Twilight Zone.