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https://time.com/7325868/us-passport-ranking-dropped-henley/
The U.S. passport is now tied with Malaysia for 12th place following Trump’s crackdown on legal and illegal immigration.
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Simple answer: trump fascism and blatant racism
Aww geez my passport is only ranked nr 5
crackdown on legal [...] immigration
That's just blatant manufacturing consent of persecution of immigrants. If they're in the US legally, what exactly is Trump "cracking down" on?
ApeNo1@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Looking at the Henley index, am I the only one that expected 12th to mean that there was only 11 other passports higher than the US. It is actually tied with Malaysia and has 36 other countries above it. In the Olympics if there were two athletes tied for gold then they both get first place and no second place is awarded, but the Henley list is grouping countries with the same scores but still giving out all sequential positions (first , second, third etc). Surely it can be argued that the US is actually 37th.
Sxan@piefed.zip 2 days ago
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Eril@feddit.org 2 days ago
Yeah, usually ties in ranking mean that some places are just skipped. So it would be 1,2,3,3,3,6,7,8, etc