ICE protester says her Global Entry was revoked after agent scanned her face

Global Entry and Precheck revoked three days after incident, court filing says.

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Well that sucks. Wife and I travel internationally a couple times a year and Global Entry and PreCheck come in handy. Probably going to lose it eventually because I am not going to stop protesting. Only a matter of time before they make a match.

In fact to quote Michael Scott "I am going to protest even harder".

I need to do some research on face wraps that impede/defeat biometrics. At close range and in good light you likely are screwed no matter what but moving at a weird angle in bad light maybe? The tech still isn't perfect because even "TSA Touchless" gets confused and that is as easy of a match as possible. Cyberpunk dystopians were a lot cooler when we weren't living in one.

 

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So yeah, I don't have a ton of sympathy for someone who handed over all the biometric stuff to a should-be illegal surveillance arm of the gov and then gets upset when they get surveilled.

Do you have a US passport? Then you already gave your biometric data to the state.

 

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I just wish that Canada had a website set up to explain how us old fogies could emigrate. The official site seems to focus on working folks, which is fair enough, but those days are long past for me.

Short version is there is no retiree program.

However if you are skilled worker you could apply through that program (Canada Express) and once in Canada while you must have means to support yourself you are not required to work in that field. There is no max age although if over 47 you get 0 points in the age category. With sufficient education and other factors you could still qualify.

Once accepted and immigrated to Canada there is no hard requirement that you work within your field and could use your temporary visa to obtain permenanet residency. Unlike other programs it is score based and top N visa holders when ranked by score are offered to apply for permanent residency so it isn't as clear of a path as some countries.

However there is no "retiree visa" that exists in some countries. That is why you are not finding it.

 

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Whatever you've been smoking, I want some of it. TSA in all of the places in the US that I've flown through are some of the nastiest wannabe bullies I've ever had the misfortune to meet. Yes, they're courteous until they find or imagine the tiniest reason not to be. Maybe you don't look right, or your passport has the wrong stamp in it? Or you have 6 weeks' worth of personal medication with you, what, are you a drug dealer? Oops.

That was like 15 years ago. I'd rather not imagine how it is now, I took the USA off my travel destination list when the Rump got elected for the first time.

Sounds like you have a bit of unconscious bias goi g on there.

TSA are loud and obnoxious but none of what you described is TSA. TSA doesn't check visas, or stamps. They don't care about personal medicine. TSA is worried about transport security. Regardless of if it is security theater.

It isn't like security is much better in most countries. The only obnoxious people I have ever encountered in singapore were airport security. The absolute worst security of any country was Germany with agents yelling in German to a variety of nationals not just Americans but none of which who spoke German.

 

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The point I'm making is that your border security privileges can be revoked at their discretion. Calling a security guy a pig during a border security crossing, like at an airport, will likely get your privileges revoked.

Not legally. Calling a security guard a pig is protected speech. Is the 1st amendment a right or a privilege to be granted by the state? If it is a right then imposing restrictions for engaging in the lawful exercising of a right is unconstitutional. It doesn't matter how trivial you think that privilege (Global Entry) is. What matters is WHY is was restricted. Was it restricted for the legal exercising of a right? Then Unconstitutional. It is that simple. If that isn't the case we don't have rights.

Not that rule of law matters to this administation or nazi boot lickers like yourself.

 

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That's the hazard of redistricting, at least the way they're doing it. You create more seats that lean toward your party, but you also dilute your margin in what would otherwise be safe districts. It potentially leaves you vulnerable to a wave election, although that's not really a realistic concern in Texas.

Except Texas high off the 2024 election was so super aggressive in redistricting they cut the margins in many district to almost nothing and those margins were based on 2024 when record Latino vote propelled Trump to the white house. The same Latinos who have now soured on him. Lets ignore how stupid those voters were for a second (Latinos for Trump really?). The larger point is the redistricting wasn't based on the AVERAGE Republican vote but the high water mark.

Now will Texas flip blue in 2026/2028? Probably not but Republican stupidity likely cost them 3-4 seats because they gamed the system based on 2024 results rather than be a little <cough cough> conservative and base them on average results over the prior half dozen elections.