Multiple Countries Issue US Travel Alerts, But It’s the Warnings from EU Nations that Grate
“New U.S. gender marker policies that may affect travelers who use “X” or nonbinary identifiers. Since January, entry has been denied in some cases unless travel documents match the sex assigned at birth.”
An Australian woman announced on X that she’d just canceled her trip to the U.S., citing safety concerns. She also didn’t want to finance a “hateful & intolerant America.”
“We’ll sit this one out until commonsense & decency are back in the US,” she added.
While both reasons sounded unreasonable to me, as she sees it, people like me are the problem.
This woman was responding to news that multiple countries have recently issued warnings to their citizens about travel to the U.S., which was surprising, but apparently true.
We cancelled our holiday to the US. One, for safety reasons, & two, I don't want to finance a hateful & intolerant America.
We'll sit this one out until commonsense & decency are back in the US.Multiple Countries Just Issued Travel Warnings for the U.S. https://t.co/0IUcCTie8V
— AussieRelFella 🇦🇺 (@RelCazlick) July 4, 2025
The New Zealand government uses the same four-tiered travel advisory scale as most nations: Level 1 (Exercise normal safety precautions), Level 2 (Exercise a high degree of caution), Level 3 (Reconsider your need to travel), and Level 4 (Do not travel).
On Nov. 29, the government raised its alert status for citizens traveling to the U.S. to Level 2 “due to the threat of terrorism,” where it has remained.
Its website advises New Zealanders:
There are more significant safety or security concerns than you would usually find in New Zealand, particularly because of terrorism and incidents of civil unrest.
There is a higher incidence of violent crime and firearm possession than in New Zealand.
And asks travelers to be aware of:
- Active shooter incidents.
- Crime – watch out for petty crime, such as theft, especially in urban centres, tourist areas, and on public transport.
- Natural disasters and severe weather.
- Entry requirements – the US government has strict rules for entering and staying in the country. You may encounter scrutiny from US border authorities.
While the Australian government’s “Smartraveller” website alert status for travel to the U.S. is currently set at Level 1, its warnings are nearly identical to those from New Zealand. The government warns citizens that “violent crime is more common in the United States than in Australia. Gun crime is also prevalent.”
Additionally, “there is a persistent threat of mass casualty violence and terrorist attacks in the United States. Be alert, particularly in public places and at events.”
Travelers are warned to “avoid areas where demonstrations and protests are occurring due to the potential for unrest and violence.”
And they remind citizens that “entry requirements are strict. US authorities have broad powers to decide if you’re eligible to enter and may determine that you are inadmissible for any reason under US law.”
Likewise, Canada’s advisory is at Level 1, with its government website referencing the same risks outlined by New Zealand and Australia.
But the governments of Germany, France, Denmark, and Finland warn of an additional threat. According to the Men’s Journal:
New U.S. gender marker policies that may affect travelers who use “X” or nonbinary identifiers. Since January, entry has been denied in some cases unless travel documents match the sex assigned at birth.
The article notes:
The U.K. took it a step further. Its Foreign Office warned that minor entry mistakes could lead to detention or deportation, and emphasized the variability of laws across different U.S. states.
The consequences are already surfacing. The World Travel & Tourism Council projects a $12.5 billion decline in international tourism revenue to the U.S. in 2025, driven in part by these warnings. That’s a serious blow to cities that rely on global visitors to fill restaurants, hotels, and attractions.
These dire safety warnings may play well politically, but they distort reality. While no country is without its flaws, portraying America as uniquely dangerous — especially for international visitors — stretches credibility.
And suggesting that visitors face imminent detention or deportation simply doesn’t align with the experience of millions of travelers each year.
Transgender individuals are free to present themselves however they choose in daily life. But given the dangerous world we live in — and the intense scrutiny that even American citizens face when traveling abroad — is it really too much to ask that one’s travel documents match their sex assigned at birth?
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Crime in urban settings? Isn’t that racist?
We don’t want you in the US. Please feel free to stay in your shitholes.
Funny how Mexico is somehow pissed off that “gringos,” the Mexican reference to White NGS, are in Mexico City. “Speak Spanish and learn our culture!”
“We’ll sit this one out until commonsense & decency are back in the US,” she added.”
Your terms are acceptable.
As the Rajasthani message on the Voyager Golden Record instructs, “We are happy where we are, and you be happy where you are,”
And we are happy where you are!
Somehow, the US will have to persevere on without importing leftist snowflakes.
I believe the expression “Sod off, Swampy” would also be appropriate.
Didn’t Australia have a Synagogue firebombed this weekend? Looks like the US better issue an advisory about Australia.
Not firebombed. Someone lit a fire at the front door, which was put out without causing damage to anything but the door, and without harming the 20 people who were inside at the time. The arsonist has been arrested; his name is French but he “identifies” as Iranian.
I read several stories describing it as a “firebombing”. I’m not sure arson with people inside makes it any better
He also identifies as a competent arsonist.
June 6, 1944.
This should be the absolute END to American involvement in any struggle to keep other countries free.
Let the Muzzie men take over their countries. Let them subjugate women, force them to wear their body coverings, make the women the property of Muzzie men, let them decimate the effete men who want boys to be girls.
But please, don’t call us to help you. We are a toxic nation that demands adherence to laws as a sovereign nation.
But good luck.
Fk Australia, New Zealand, the U.K., the European feminization of Germany, Italy, and the rest.
We have bailed your asses out for the very last time.
America first? No, I am for America only.
Meh. If the warning keeps Ken/Karen the ‘non-binary, gender fluid’ weirdo from showing up, causing a scene and delaying the line at Customs so much the better. Even more for the weirdos that make it through into the USA and who want to give LEO a hard time with this gender nonsense when confronted about their behavior.
Remember “Pat?”
Simpler times!
Good article, thanks. But please note that sex is not “assigned at birth”. The sex of the newborn is merely noted by the attending physician. “”Assigned at birth” is a lefty term, trying to convey a human agency is involved in determine a child’s sex.
The left sees themselves as God. What would we expect?
Correct. The phrase should never be used in a rational conversation.
But it is delicious to use as part of an unrelenting flow of sarcasm!
How about SFC for “sex from conception”?
Sex is not assigned at conception.
Differentiation and actual dimorphism doesn’t start to show up until 4-5wks of gestation.
There are legit mutations and aneuploidies that mess with the sex at conception fallacy.
It is ridiculous to call this a “fallacy”. More properly stated, there are things that (rarely) interfere with development of the early embryo into the correct genetic sex. Otherwise known as “aberrations”.
And the fact that there are no observable sex differences in the early embryo hardly proves that the differences are not there.
Embryology is fascinating; in particular the differences between species is mind-blowing stuff.
Sex is not assigned. At all.
It IS.
From conception. The egg has an X chromosome, and the sperm has an X or a Y chromosome. From the moment the sperm enters the egg the sex is determined.
There IS NO STATE before that point in which an individual can be said to exist. So no ‘mutation’ can interfere with the fact of sex at conception.
Well put.
While there are a vanishing small number of genetic anomalies that might cause an issue, congenital issues in the development of genitalia are not evidence of an inability to determine sex via chromosomes
But that was the lefty statement the article was quoting, so it makes sense in that context.
In other words, reality.
Sex is set at conception. As you correctly note it is noted at birth, Kindergarten teachers do not assign it.
We could use a few less lunatics in this country.
Rubio’s State Department should issue travel alerts for the UK and France as parts of both those countries have been sacked by Muslims. London looks like Fallujah now (particularly Westminster, holy moly) and Southern France like the Sunni Triangle.
Both countries have long since passed the tipping point of foreign-born residents. They are, effectively, conquered territories.
I feel strongly that the US is being far too influenced by Europeans and their leftist ideas. Socialism, for example. Is clearly a European construct. A reaction to their ever present aristocracy. Here in the US, it was mainly a religious ideal for a few communes, which never really took off. Individuality and the scramble to make one’s own way is the American ideal. Therefore, I’m happy to hear that European countries and their satellites think Trump’s America is too violent for visitors. You stay home, we’ll stay home, and all will be good. (Oh, and that goes for our soldiers too. The Ukraine is a European country, or should I say rip off)
As david staaarkeeey says, EverY bad idea comes from france
I was assigned sex at birth, and I’ve been pursuing it ever since.
I was assigned chromosomes at birth. I’ve been happy since then.
But, I don’t have a mental illness that forces me to think I am in the wrong body.
Your chromosomes and sex were set at conception.
Correct. It was a play on words to agree to HH.
Clearly, the US doesn’t need any more stupid people
Transsexuals are avoiding traveling to the United States?
OH NO!
Anyway….
Let’s say Trannys comprise ?3? Percent of the European population? (This is no doubt way too high but close enough for generalization.) Now let’s say that 50% of them make enough money to travel internationally. Now let’s say that 50% of those were actually planning to travel this year. Now let’s say that 50% percent of those were planning to visit the U.S.
What’s that leave? Enough to fill one 747? Las Vegas may see a small drop in arrests and the Ladies Room at Disney World may be a little less crowded but I don’t think that most of us will notice.
How dare you use math and logic?
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“Gringos, stop stealing our homes.”
Tourists were shouted at and store windows smashed during a protest against gentrification in Mexico City, where an influx of Americans and other “digital nomads” is driving up rents and pushing out locals.
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The desire to preserve one’s culture and homeland is only xenophobic when white people are the ones expressing it
https://x.com/cabot_phillips/status/1941900495167099328
.. this week it was Mexico City telling tourists to go home.
Last week it was Spain …
The surge in visitors has stoked complaints at times from some Spaniards about “overtourism, ” with concerns about overcrowding, water use and particularly the availability and affordability of housing.
Spain’s government has started listening to demands for more regulation, particularly around housing in Spain’s big cities, where rising home and rental prices have become a key concern for voters. Earlier this month, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez introduced a 12-part plan to tackle the housing crisis, with measures aimed at bringing stricter regulations to short-term rentals that mainly cater to tourists.
“Gringos, stop stealing our homes.”
Gringos are not stealing your homes, they are paying for them.
Unlike the cholos who actually ARE stealing OUR homes.
On the plus side, you have free speech.
The narcissistic and slanderous twit doesn’t want to “finance a hateful and intolerant America,” but has nothing to say about rising Jew-hate and genocidal Islamofascism in Australia.
A typically stupid, myopic and hypocritical leftist.
One, for safety reasons
Oh, bullhockey. You didn’t feel unsafe, except in your little virtue signaling world.
Entry requirements – the US government has strict rules for entering and staying in the country. You may encounter scrutiny from US border authorities.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! As does EVERY OTHER COUNTRY in the world!
All of those warnings are typical warnings about traveling to ANY foreign country. They’re boilerplate in every country briefing I’ve ever gotten.
The World Travel & Tourism Council projects a $12.5 billion decline in international tourism revenue to the U.S. in 2025
Yeah, riiiiight.
Remove the 10 most violent zip codes and the US is one of the safest countries in the world. Stay out of the hood and don’t associate with hoodlums and you have nothing to worry about. Plus, our citizens (with varying degrees of ease) can carry self-defense tools that deter criminals.
Overstay your visa in another country and see how quick they round you up and put you on a plane, and that’s if that country doesn’t prefer to throw you in a prison that makes US prisons look like the Hilton.
$12.5B is pocket change to the US. We have states with GDPs higher than most countries.
NZ and Aus have been like this for a quite a while in fact I fist came across the warning last year when a friend shared it on Facebook.
What did make me smile though was the responses she got from others who I’d normally call lefties and the way they scoffed at the guns part of the warning 😂
But yeah, you lefties stay where you are and everyone will be happier 🙄
I particularly don’t care if Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders or anyone from Europe comes to the US as a tourist. I’m not going to any of these countries either. You have a higher chance of a knife attack by a Muslim in England, France, Ireland than you do here.
Actually, the rate of intentional homicide is 5 times greater in the US than in England.
“You have a higher chance of a knife attack by a Muslim in England, France, Ireland than you do here.”
This statement is demonstratively true.
“Actually, the rate of intentional homicide is 5 times greater in the US than in England.”
This statement has absolutely nothing to do with Moe’s statement.
Do better.
Most of those are within Democrat run shitholes 😂
And most of those homicides are between gang members doing gang stuff. Don’t get involved in criminal activity and your odds of being shanked or shot walking down the street are virtually zero. We don’t have to worry about sudden jihadi syndrome.
Interesting statistic: take a look at this table:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/core/lw/2.0/html/tileshop_pmc/tileshop_pmc_inline.html?title=Click%20on%20image%20to%20zoom&p=PMC3&id=11868975_jamanetwopen-e2462069-g001.jpg
Essentially
The homicide rate for Blacks is roughly 74 per 100,000
Excluding homicides of Black and Hispanic people, the U.S. firearm homicide rate is approximately 1.7 per 100,000.
And yet, you’re still here.
Got some demographic and geographical breakdowns on the numbers? Without which they don’t tell us anything actionable.
pr campaign by lefty msm etc
What they really mean is if we cant sneak in b/c of maga
then we arent coming
proper american response to them:
thats ok
we already have enough homegrown criminals
We need to clear out the latest batch of imported criminals before we allow more to “visit.”
We have enough home-grown weirdos without more visiting and then deliberately overstaying their welcome.
Not really worried if a few “can’t figure it outs” decide not to come here.
So we should withdraw all our troops from those countries and let them defend themselves.
Oh, and terrorism is due to all the illegal aliens China Joe* let in.
It’s interesting to read this. I just had a great time about 2 months ago in Scotland with my 90 yr. old dad, and exactly what the British government is saying about the US is what multiple web sites told us about crime in Scotland. In 2024 I had the privilege to go to London and Paris, and the warnings about London and Paris were the same on the internet as what the British government is saying now.
Sadly, London, Paris, and Edinburgh have homeless people living in tents, pickpockets and other criminals in the streets, just like our big cities. Just taking common sense precautions kept us safe.
People coming over here from other parts of the world have nothing to fear unless they stop in blue cities that do not enforce the law and let criminals run wild. Taking common sense precautions will keep them safe too.
Another act of Marxist political theater here, and just as ugly as the other acts of the ongoing play.
Dang, the German trannies won’t be here. I was so looking forward to reintroducing them to the missing bratwursts.
lol. I doubt anything happens at all. They did this pearl clutching in Trump’s first go-around and tourism was much higher (pre-COVID) than with Obama.
My wife and I went to Paris during the bombings of the mid-1980s. It was great. First, the plane to de Gaulle was virtually empty, the restaurants actually wanted our business, the museums were all empty, and most of the French people were polite and helpful. We need more of that.