Perspective with Ryan Bridge: What will Trump's border crackdown do to tourism?

Donald Trump has every right to crack down on the American border. There are problems there that we, down here in little old New Zealand, just don't understand.

Illegal migration sounds to us like a far away and non-threatening concept because, well, it is. Thank you, ocean.

And if you believe everything the liberal international media serves up and that this is an issue invented by tyrants like Trump to retain their grip on power, look at Starmer, the lovely leftie Labour leader of Great Britain.

In case you missed it - Starmer, this week, has signed a piece of paper asking Europe to kindly redefine human rights because the current definition is a little too generous.

Yes, Labour's man at number 10 wants to narrow human rights. He wants to be able to kick more asylum seekers out of Britain, because the cost and burden of daily arrivals of boats is simply unsustainable. And the British public had enough of it long ago. Enter Farage.

So this is not a figment of a dictators' imagination, but a genuine political problem.

So, back to Trump. He's cracking down at the border and new rules are coming for us Kiwis, and other visa waiver countries. This applies to tourists - a visit to Hawaii is all it takes.

In order to gain entry, you will have to hand over five years of your social media activity. It's mandatory. You'll also need to supply your telephone numbers for the past five years and email addresses for the past decade.

Now, I'm no terrorist - but this sounds like a lot. So I probably won't be visiting America anytime soon. Too hard basket. If you had to go for a funeral or and event or something important, you would. But to be honest, I'll probably just go to Mexico.

Getting over the bureaucratic wall to the States is feeling a little too hard basket.

Ryan Bridge is a New Zealand broadcaster who has worked on many current affairs television and radio shows. He currently hosts Newstalk ZB's Early Edition - where this article was sourced.