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What was wrong with Harris?
Non-policy reasons: Too attached to Biden, didn't win via a primary but because Biden stood down far too late. (Not that she would've won a primary).
I'm the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks
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Re: I'm the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks
#62Yea that's scary. I was in a similar situation, but thankfully they just interrogated me for 5 hours and then sent me back to Canada. My name was marked from that point, so everytime I re-entered US I had to get pulled into secondary.
My sister accidentally brought a banana across the border from Canada into the US 20 years ago and because of that she gets secondary inspection every time.
Re: I'm the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks
#63> That would be the response to nearly every question I would ask over the next two weeks: “I don’t know.”
I'm disappointed, but not surprised. Observing how Americans function, it's very common for them to just let someone higher-up in the system take the responsibility, until the decision reaches a person who is so far removed from the human element they cannot possibly care. Case in point: once I messaged on a public Slack channel "hey I did this thing X, not sure if that's what I was supposed to do". Nobody said anything to me, two weeks later I got scheduled "just a quick sync" with HR. The HR employee was obviously on a different continent.
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#64I suspect they are under pressure to juke their stats and they could get a gold star for "deporting" her. Ergo "you aren't a criminal. Come with me. You're being deported."
You didn't read the article, did you? Hint: it's in the last third.
Re: I'm the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks
#65I suspect they are under pressure to juke their stats and they could get a gold star for "deporting" her. Ergo "you aren't a criminal. Come with me. You're being deported."
This is what America did in the Middle East after 9/11. Just collect up some random people. Claim they are terrorists and send them to Guantanamo bay where they are tortured and raped for a few years for no reason other than to claim they are solving terrorism.
Truly despicable what we did to those people. Obama promised to shut it down, but once in office he did little to nothing.
Re: I'm the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks
#66If the objective is to scare people off from going to the USA, then they're doing a magnificent job. I've heard other cases of people with green cards being arrested and put in terrible conditions, with absolutely no reason given. This woman was ready to go back home and not enter the US, but instead she was dragged through hell and only released because she was Canadian. All those with different passports get subjec…
I wonder why agents in the field, customs, immigration etc, seem so eager to implement these changes.
Rhetorical question, or are you genuinely asking?
Re: I'm the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks
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What was wrong with Harris?
All Harris had to do to win was promise to stop sending arms to Israel.
Many, many polls showed this very clearly. 77% of Democrat voters wanted an arms embargo, and over 30% of 2020 Biden voters in key battleground states said that this issue was serious enough to affect their vote.
> A Harris organizer who worked on youth turnout said that senior campaign officials gave them an order: When they sent out mass volunteer or fundraising emails and people replied by asking about Gaza, they were told to mark it as “no response.” The result? They seldom ended up engaging with voters on that issue.
- https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/uncommitted-le...
So yeah, if there was one thing wrong with Harris, that would be it. That one issue would have changed the result, and as far as single issues go, I call genocide a pretty big one. It's kinda the biggest.
Far from the only issue though - campaigning with Dick Cheney was pretty fucking stupid, for one thing. Then there was promising to be harsher on immigration than Trump. Promising the world's "most lethal" military (we already are?) while trying to gaslight broke Americans into believing the economy was great. In general, trying to pick up right wing votes was a heinous 'strategy'.
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#69This is horrible and scary, why border guards are even giving the authority to revoke visas is beyond me. When people think about giving cops/guards authority like this they need to be picturing the dumbest bully from their grade school. That's who is going to be using the power
Every country is like this. Israel is the scariest but I remember decades ago crossing into Switzerland by train and in the middle of the night being woken up by border guards with barking German shepherds asking for my passport. I have so many stories it’s funny. On top of the other stories I’ve already posted, my friend who is Canadian drove into Buffalo for dinner and on his way back, they asked him where are you…
"Switzerland by train and in the middle of the night being woken up by border guards with barking German shepherds asking for my passport"
What is exactly wrong here? They checked your passport and went on their way, that is how it works.
Re: I'm the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks
#70>There were around 140 of us in our unit. Many women had lived and worked in the US legally for years but had overstayed their visas – often after reapplying and being denied. They had all been detained without warning. Okay so, not legal then? These articles are always like this. "omg I just overstayed a little bit!!! uwu" Btw, I am European and will never hopefully have to visit the USA again.
> These women acknowledged that they shouldn’t have overstayed and took responsibility for their actions.
They took responsibility for their actions so they should't have been put there.
punishing ppl even after they take responsibility is not what ppl voted for.