I think barring people who have been to Syria is designed more to keep out young Arab men who have been exposed to an environment where radical Islam, political extremism, and constant violence are all totally normalized, because they are disproportionately likely to do a terrorism. Chantal very obviously did not enter Syria to aid and abet ISIS in the conflict or as part of some human rights NGO that plans on stirring up political shit.
Since Trump's inauguration, Canadians are under unprecedented scrutiny at the border. American border agents always been *allowed* to be super snoopy and picky, they just never have been to Canadians before. Not even after 9/11.
Among other things, border agents are checking people's phones and computers, particularly their social media, and denying entry to people with political hot takes. Not every single time, or even most of the time, necessarily. But enough of the time that it's making people who usually travel to the US every year change their plans, even if they weren't boycotting US travel in the spring.
Chantal clearly isn't some Isis sleeper agent, but the very fact that she left Canada to shack up with someone from Syria, and now is trying to enter the US from Syria (in this hypothetical scenario) would raise a red flag. The border agents are denying people over waaaay more small red flags than they used to.
The American border agents don't need hard and fast, obvious reasons. Nobody has a *right* to enter the USA except Americans, they've just extended special privileges to certain countries-- until now.
Obviousky harmless, apolitical, wealthy, white Canadians are getting turned away at the border just because the agent was in a mood that day.
I feel like the most obvious political things she's said since Kuwait arc started have been about how much better Kuwait is, and how Israel is bad, and not specifically anti-US stuff. But her anti-Israel (and general anti-West) thoughts could definitely get her denied entry in the current political climate.
That's just once, though. Being turned away wouldn't mean she's barred from entering the US at all, ever. And they wouldn't detain her or anything. They'd just tell her to turn around and get on a plane to Canada.
I can't see any big international fuckup at this point that doesn't end with Chantal just... getting on a flight to Canada. But she doesn't want to be there.
She's so determined to show the haters that a man has claimed her that she's chasing HERSELF out of the free world. Madness.