Permanent Resident in the USA Scared to Travel Abroad

[Sunya and Tim 55]

As many have stated before you really do not have anything to worry about but I understand that does not stop the worry.  My husband (green card holder) from England and I have been traveling back and forth to Europe at least 3 to 4 times a year for the last 3 years to visit my stepson who lives in Ireland and his family in England.  My husband has the added "fun" of having a 4 hour overstay from prior to our K-1 process so he gets pulled to secondary some times.  Even with all of that we just remain calm, make sure we always have his passport, green card and any pending application notifications and it has been fine.  Most folks do not have any problems and those cases never make the news, sadly you only hear about the ones that go terribly wrong.  I hope you enjoy your trip...Italy and Switzerland are still on my list of places to visit.   

[Diane and Chris 651]

4 hours ago, Hypnos said:

I've gotten on this soapbox here before,

We really wish you wouldn’t. It’s disrespectful to refer to our presidents as Dubya and the orange one, IMO. And saying that people will wind up being dead for being an immigrant is a bit over the top.  This is not the place for your negative put downs of any people in the U.S.  As others have said, if you’re doing everything legally, you have absolutely nothing to worry about. That is all. Thank you!  

[Hypnos 6,578]

The ignore button is right there. You can avail yourself of it at any time.

 

And I linked to a New York Times story regarding an Indian immigrant who was killed just for being an immigrant. Not fake news, not something that maybe kinda sorta happened, it happened and he died.

Edited September 16, 2018 by Hypnos

[Boiler 46,359]

I used to live in an area where as long as you had a D after your name you were guaranteed election, now live where the R has the advantage.

 

This anti immigration issue is a mystery to me, you come across weird people but did that in the UK, vast majority of people have been fine, perhaps more so than I could have reasonably expect.

 

I obviously know enough about the process to spot to spot the ignorance and bias in media reporting, much of the problem being the use of the term Immigrants to refer to those here without documentation.,

 

 

 

 

[Starkilla09 366]

36 minutes ago, Diane and Chris said:

We really wish you wouldn’t. It’s disrespectful to refer to our presidents as Dubya and the orange one, IMO. And saying that people will wind up being dead for being an immigrant is a bit over the top.  This is not the place for your negative put downs of any people in the U.S.  As others have said, if you’re doing everything legally, you have absolutely nothing to worry about. That is all. Thank you!  

This is the U.S. not North Korea, he can say whatever he wants about any politician as long as he’s not threatening their safety. Last time I remember name calling a politician isn’t a crime or something new. Leaders have to earn respect besides our tax dollars pay their salaries! With that being said yes as a permanent resident there’s nothing to worry about unless he/she has inadmisibilities such as crime or drug offense.

Edited September 16, 2018 by Starkilla09

[dirtyhippiegirl 85]

58 minutes ago, Diane and Chris said:

And saying that people will wind up being dead for being an immigrant is a bit over the top.  This is not the place for your negative put downs of any people in the U.S.  As others have said, if you’re doing everything legally, you have absolutely nothing to worry about. That is all. Thank you!  

I'm sure my husband's coworker who was here legally but murdered because he had the misfortune of being in the crosshairs of a racist scumbag who couldn't tell the difference between an Arab and someone from India would disagree. Except he is dead. Murdered by an American even.

[mushroomspore 3,044]

1 hour ago, Diane and Chris said:

We really wish you wouldn’t. It’s disrespectful to refer to our presidents as Dubya and the orange one, IMO. And saying that people will wind up being dead for being an immigrant is a bit over the top.  This is not the place for your negative put downs of any people in the U.S.  As others have said, if you’re doing everything legally, you have absolutely nothing to worry about. That is all. Thank you!  

No, it is not over the top to say people wind up dead for being immigrants because it happens. Racist ignorant people are everywhere and they do actually hate anyone who didn't have the dumb luck to be born in the same country as them. God forbid your skin color is different, your eyes are differently shaped or you speak a different language. I've had racial slurs thrown at me, my family threatened, our intelligence as well as our very existences belitted by those ignorant people many times over. To the immigrants who were murdered by racist lowlives, it's disrespectful to THEM to pretend it doesn't happen and to pretend the US is a perfect country unworthy of criticism. 

[ronniebreda 120]

1 hour ago, Diane and Chris said:

We really wish you wouldn’t. It’s disrespectful to refer to our presidents as Dubya and the orange one, IMO. And saying that people will wind up being dead for being an immigrant is a bit over the top.  This is not the place for your negative put downs of any people in the U.S.  As others have said, if you’re doing everything legally, you have absolutely nothing to worry about. That is all. Thank you!  

I lived where the shooting occurred. He most certainly did die because he was a brown skinned immigrant. 

[TBoneTX 46,379]

The OP has received consistent, objective answers.  Beyond that, this thread is going off the rails, so it's now closed to further comment.