Absolutely. Every single one of those 55M people will think twice about every aspect of their life. It will be debilitating for many of them.

How long can support for this last?

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wkat4242 3 days ago | parent [-]

Well if they had followed the news they would have already thought twice about everything they said and did since Snowden showed the entire US population has been under constant surveillance for decades now. At the time most people didn't quite care because their country "did this in their best interest and it would never turn authoritarian". Yay land of the free.

How much of that surveillance was kept I wonder? I don't consider it unimaginable that someone would get expelled for saying something on WhatsApp 15 years ago.

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e40 2 days ago | parent [-]

I think you overestimate the degree to which those 55M people follow any news. My mother's housekeeper has a green card and has zero clue what's going on in US politics. She recently went home to Mexico with absolutely no worries about getting back into the US.

	▲	wkat4242 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Mexico isn't the worst though. From other Latin American countries it's a lot worse. I heard Mexico even has a deal with the US that they refuse entry to other latam visitors that they deem suspicious to avoid them going to the US via its land border. This is what a Colombian friend said. Not sure how true though.