Had a very sad conversation with a waiter in Trieste, Italy tonight.

[Thunderbeast]

He is a very polite, well educated, and friendly man in his twenties. In our brief encounter, he expressed his desire to visit the U.S. He wants to see our natural beauty, and climb some of our mountains.

He and his friends will not visit because they are terrified of ICE, and our nativist government. They fear that they will be picked up on an American street, and dumped in a detention center.

"I see it all on TV, and I can not take the chance".

If we scare off visitors, it will take a generation to repair the damage caused by our MAGA overlords. WE will be the losers.