Las Vegas Mayor Shelley Berkley issued a heartfelt plea to Canadian visitors this week, acknowledging the city’s tourism-dependent economy is suffering from a dramatic decline in international visitors, particularly from Canada, which represents the city’s largest international market.
“As the mayor of Las Vegas, I’m telling everybody in Canada, please come. We love you, we need you, and we miss you,” Berkley said during a press conference this week, where she addressed the multiple challenges facing the entertainment capital’s tourism industry.
The mayor’s latest comments echo concerns she first raised in an August press conference, where she painted a stark picture of the tourism decline.
“International travel is way down. People are not coming to the United States,” Berkley said last month. “’
Great yet ?
Sorry, but your federal government snatches people off the streets and sends them to concentration camps. We know of at least one Canadian citizen that was kidnapped by ICE, who then died in their custody.
This is in addition to your president threatening to annex us, and starting a trade war for no discernible reason.
No, I will not be visiting. A regime change won’t help either.
It will never go back to the way things were, and that’s on you collectively.
That’s going to be generational trauma. Trust will have to be built with the youth, as adults have already said no.
Ending this regime is meaningless if the machinery that enabled it remains intact. The ICE agents that are lustily performing their duties will still live there, and will absolutely vote for more of the same.
There’s a segment of the population that still won’t get off their asses to vote as though their way of life depended on it.
Passage of time alone, is woefully inadequate to repair what was vandalized.
But wait! There’s more! You can also receive a free deportation to a partner country of our choosing regardless of your country of origin!