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> I will now spend some time looking up five articles of American citizens detained in some way in Europe and other parts of the world.

While you're at it, you should stick your fingers in your ears and shout LALALALALA.

I love my country, but it's a real shitburger right now. Just because we haven't fully closed our borders to all foreigners doesn't mean there isn't some insidious nastiness happening right now.

I prefer to live my life by what I see and hear around me and not anonymous posts on social media and, at the moment, this HN thread is nothing but a social media post as you would see on on Reddit.

It bears nothing of the reality I see and hear around me.

Not comparing Trump to Hitler, but the life style you advocate for is exactly that of most germans and italians in the 1930s

> I will now spend some time looking up five articles of American citizens detained in some way in Europe and other parts of the world.

If this wasn't hyperbole, I'm interested in the results.

(With a narrow definition of "other parts of the world", some US citizens arrested in Iran won't exactly be a surprise.)

"All are welcome here." -- Ha. Ha. Ha. The US has never had an open border policy, and pretending they had is beyond disingenuous. You're just trolling at this point.