LAS VEGAS (AP) — Appeals from American tourism organizations seemed to be everywhere Josh Loewen looked over the last year. Billboards and banners proclaimed a state or city's love for Canada. Online and social media ads offered special deals for travelers from north of the border.
I’m more concerned that quite a lot of Americans still don’t seem to understand what the problem is. They seem to think that people not wanting to come to the US is because they don’t like trump and it’s a sort of protest.
They really don’t seem to understand that it’s because they keep arresting foreign nationals for no reason and throwing them in detention centers. It’s a safety issue, not a protest issue, although it might also be a protest issue.
So advertising how nice place x is, isn’t going to cut it. Because to get to the nice place x, I have to get past the not nice people who probably want to shoot me and aren’t all that concerned about being prosecuted after the fact.