Weekly civic intelligence report ยท v2.2
Chad announced a suspension of visas to US citizens in retaliation for Trump's travel ban affecting Chadian citizens. This represents international blowback to US immigration restrictions.
This event represents Chad's diplomatic retaliation to US policy, not a US constitutional event. A-score is negligible (0.09) because: (1) This is a foreign government's action affecting US citizens abroad, not domestic constitutional damage; (2) Rule_of_law driver scores minimal 1 only for potential reciprocal policy implications; (3) Mechanism modifier 0.3 reflects this is foreign policy response, not constitutional mechanism; (4) Scope modifier 0.4 reflects international context with no direct US institutional impact; (5) No election interference, separation of powers issues, civil rights violations within US jurisdiction, or institutional capture. B-score is moderate (22.62) driven by novelty of tit-for-tat retaliation, media interest in international blowback narrative, and timing relevance to Trump travel ban controversy. However, this clearly qualifies as Noise: it's a foreign policy consequence story with zero domestic constitutional mechanism, affects narrow population of US travelers to Chad, and represents diplomatic theater rather than constitutional damage.
Classify as NOISE - foreign diplomatic retaliation with no US constitutional impact. Monitor only if pattern emerges of multiple countries implementing reciprocal restrictions that materially affect US citizens' rights or if domestic legal challenges arise. This is international relations theater, not constitutional crisis.