I'm the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks

Post by ThePowerOfFuet » Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 1:41 PM UTC

blindriver wrote: post #21

Yes. This is the reality of how it is. It’s unfair that this woman was caught in this but CBP have ultimate power crossing the border can be scary. My friend got her visa stripped and given a 10 year ban under Obama because of jokes in her text messages about a GC marriage. She didn’t get thrown in jail but she was refused entry back into the US and had to get someone to sell all her stuff while she flew back to her…

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 1:42 PM UTC

otikik wrote: post #188

twUewhag wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks, the EU is full and has enough immigrants. Why should EU citizens pay outrageous rents, compete against the whole world with their degrees, get lower wages and have prime property bought up by Chinese and Russian oligarchs? (This does not mean that people should be treated brutally at the border.)

> Thanks, the EU is full and has enough immigrants EU is full of old people and not enough children. The population pyramid looks like a bullet: https://www.populationpyramid.net/europe/2024/ It's not difficult to see where that leads to, if we stop accepting immigrants.

Post by ThePowerOfFuet » Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 1:43 PM UTC

linuxftw wrote: post #31

Don't come to the US, it's a police state. Those people are stuck in detention for weeks and months at a time because there's thousands upon thousands of them, and they all get to have a hearing of some sort. Those hearings take time to process. > I met a family of three who had been living in the US for 11 years with work authorizations. This is code for 'illegal alien.' Previous administrations were willfully not e…

Post by tiniuclx » Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 1:43 PM UTC

transcriptase wrote: post #88

BizarreByte wrote: post #28

The specifics of this case are largely irrelevant to me, the fact is I am scared to cross the border into the US at this point. For the foreseeable future I will not be travelling to the US for any reason. Canada is safe and there is nothing in the US worth risking my freedom for. I will remain here and I will continue to avoid travel to America as well as spending money on American goods/services.

The specifics are seemingly irrelevant to everyone. She had her work visa revoked at the Canadian border because her company in California was allegedly making THC beverages in violation of federal law. She was told to visit a consulate to straighten it out. Instead she flew to Mexico and tried to enter there with new and obviously fake job offer. She was treated like anyone else would, but it’s international news be…

Post by diggan » Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 1:44 PM UTC

hartator wrote: post #99

> to help launch an American brand of health tonics called Holy! Water > contained hemp The actual company name is hempandhoneynj? That sells “ HIGH THC IS FOR EXPERIENCED CANNABIS USERS”. I don’t think weed is legal yet on the federal level. There is some grey ares are on the THC vs weed classification, but note that also harsher laws - like dealing drugs - could have applied here.