Germany Issues Travel Warning to US. Tesla Blues in Deutschland

They don't want to call it "Warning" but that is what the "updated advice" below really is. 

Bottom line: The German government is telling its citizens that regardless of what visa or permanent resident permit or what passport you may hold, you stand to be arrested, imprisoned, and humiliated upon landing in the US for simply being German.

I believe that the US of Trump is retaliating against Germany for its pro-Ukraine stance by harassing German citizens traveling to the US.

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Germany updates US travel advice after citizens detained
Reuters
Wed, March 19, 2025

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany updated its travel advisory for the United States to emphasise that a visa or entry waiver does not guarantee entry for its citizens after several Germans were detained at the border recently, a foreign ministry spokesperson said.

The ministry updated its travel advice website for the U.S. on Tuesday to clarify that neither approval through the U.S. ESTA system nor a U.S. visa entitles entry in every case.

"The final decision on whether a person can enter the U.S. lies with the U.S. border authorities," said the spokesperson on Wednesday.

However, the spokesperson emphasised that the change did not constitute a travel warning.

Since taking office on January 20, President Donald Trump has announced a number of immigration-related executive orders that focus on stricter border policy, tighter visa vetting procedures and a crackdown on undocumented migrants in the United States.

Germany's foreign ministry said earlier this week that it was monitoring whether there had been a change in U.S. immigration policy after three nationals had been detained.

Two of the three cases have been resolved, with the affected nationals returning to Germany, while the remaining case was being handled with the help of the consulate general in Boston.

According to Boston-based public broadcaster WGBH, a German man with a green card residency permit was detained by immigration authorities this month at Boston airport and was being held in a detention facility.

The German foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for information about the man's current whereabouts.

(Reporting by Miranda Murray; Editing by Alex Richardson)

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Maybe this MAGA hunt for Germans at US borders is a gift from Emperor Donald Dumb to his dark-priest Rasputin Elon Musk because of HOW GERMANS FEEL ABOUT MUSK AND TESLA?

To wit:

94 Percent Of Germans Say They Won't Buy A Tesla Because Elon Musk Is A Dangerous, Far-Right Loser
Andy Kalmowitz
Mon, March 17, 2025


 

Tesla car salesman Donald Trump listens as President Elon Musk speaks next to a Tesla Cyber Truck and a Model S on the South Lawn of the White House on March 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. - Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

Tesla is in a bad way right now, as evidenced by outrageous financing deals, Cybertrucks piling up on dealer lots and constant price decreases. The issues extend far beyond the U.S., though. Certain places in Europe — especially Germany, it would seem — are none too pleased with CEO Elon Musk's hard push to the extreme right of politics.

A new survey from German publication T-Online polled about 100,000 of its readers and found that 94 percent of the respondents said they'd never buy a Tesla. Just three percent said they would even still consider a car from Musk's company. This is disastrous news for Tesla.

Of course, competition from other electric vehicles is putting a bit of the squeeze on Tesla, but that doesn't account for all of it — not at all. T-Online asserts that Musk himself is playing a huge role in all of this, and I agree. They say, "His political escapades, his closeness to Trump, his forays into the world of conspiracy theories – they're scaring away buyers and investors." It's not just Musk's bad politics, either. It's also his financial decisions. He has lowered prices to boost sales, and in turn, used Teslas are losing value quite rapidly, according to T-Online. It's the same story here in the U.S., too.

Tesla's Long Slide Down

In this aerial view newly completed Tesla Model Y electric cars stand at the new Tesla Gigafactory electric car manufacturing plant on March 25, 2022 near Gruenheide, Germany. - Sean Gallup/Getty Images

This sort of reaction has been a long time coming in Germany. In January, we reported that sales dropped 59 percent in the country as Musk put all his rights behind Germany's far-right AfD party. That trend was actually worse the following month when sales dropped 76 percent year over year. Tesla sold just 1,429 cars in Germany during the short month. You might think it's because of a downturn in the overall German EV market, but that's simply not the case. Sales were up 31 percent over the previous year. It's a Tesla problem.

It'll be very interesting to see where Tesla's German sales fall to once March is all wrapped up. I'm not a betting man, but the smart money is on "low." I'm also quite excited to get Tesla's first-quarter results. The Austin, Texas-based automaker doesn't break down its sales by month like most other car companies, so we're going to have to wait for the middle or end of April to really find out what's going on with Tesla right now.