Some tourists and business travelers may face up to $15,000 bond to enter US

Smells like a grift to me ... now we're doing import taxes on people?

The US state department has prepared plans to impose bonds as high as $15,000 for some tourism and business visas, according to a draft of a temporary final rule.

The bonds would be issued to visitors from countries with significant overstay rates, under a 12-month pilot program.

It renews an initiative issued by the first Trump administration in November 2020, the month that Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in the presidential election. That rule would have required a $15,000 bond for tourist and business travelers from two dozen countries with 10% or higher overstay rates, mostly in Africa.

So, the return of "shithole countries."