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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

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Post by pjc50 »

gadders wrote: post #83
Swoerd123 wrote: post #14

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>>science-denying Citation needed. >>Look at the protests in Hungary, look at Serbia—that’s how you stand up to a fascist That's how you get EU and USAID funding to standup to a president outside of the WEF overton window, certainly.

Not even worth talking to you about this.

But we can have the correct answer for the audience via my Serbian colleague: local construction corruption got sufficiently bad that people got killed, and then it escalated into general complaints about not listening to the public and complicit media. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novi_Sad_railway_station_canop...

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

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Post by sjsdaiuasgdia »

gadders wrote: post #83
Swoerd123 wrote: post #14

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>>science-denying Citation needed. >>Look at the protests in Hungary, look at Serbia—that’s how you stand up to a fascist That's how you get EU and USAID funding to standup to a president outside of the WEF overton window, certainly.

> Citation needed.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0mzk2y41zvo

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-junk-science-of-...

https://www.managedhealthcareexecutive.com/view/rfk-jr-and-h...

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

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Post by ta1243 »

sebstefan wrote: post #47

>I was taken to the nurse’s office for a medical check. She asked what had happened to me. She had never seen a Canadian there before. When I told her my story, she grabbed my hand and said: “Do you believe in God?” >“I believe God brought you here for a reason,” she said. “I know it feels like your life is in a million pieces, but you will be OK. Through this, I think you are going to find a way to help others.” You…

America has always been a theocracy under a veneer of democracy. She's lucky she didn't get renamed to Offred.

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

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Post by Karsteski »

Wow this sort of scenario is my nightmare. I'm an immigrant in Canada and even though I've been able to go to the US for years, I really have no interest in going, partially due to fear of something like this happening to me.

I could easily drive to the US in less than two hours, but no thanks.

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

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Post by righthand »

mandmandam wrote: post #67
Zambyte wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 volunt…

> All Harris had to do to win was promise to stop sending arms to Israel.

That might be true but it would have set herself up for a lie that would then be weaponized by Trump for another four years. A lot of people in this country don’t want a liar in office, that’s why they didn’t vote Trump.

So while she said she wouldn’t do anything different than Biden on immigration and not stop funding Israel. Those would have been lies if she did. Saying you’ll change things also builds distrust in past government and our well working systems. This rhetoric Trump champions and puts us in the problem we have today. We can see those lies in effect today as Trump ignores the voters he won from briefly talking about Gaza and still funding those wars.

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

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Post by pjc50 »

ta1243 wrote: post #72
drumhead wrote: post #22

If 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…

Was due to go to meet our new local hires post April. Standard ESTA. No way I'm going now.

Sensible - meeting new hires counts as "work", which is strictly not included under just the ESTA, so you'd have to decide whether to lie to the border guards about it or risk this treatment.

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

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Post by elicash »

betaby wrote: post #109
littlestymaar wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nobody does civil disobedience by themselves: you do it as a group and yes the group better find an attorney beforehand …

The article about a person crossing the border. Are they supposed to have an attorney in the destination country?

I was simply sharing an anecdote about how we don't remember phone numbers anymore, in reply to someone sharing they didn't know their sibling's number. You're reading more into my comment than was stated or intended.

To read me as somehow condemning the woman in the original story seems pretty willfully bad faith.

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

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Post by danmaz74 »

ssijak wrote: post #57
drumhead wrote: post #22

If 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…

Objective is to earn as much money as possible without regard for people. Those detention centers and prisons are privately owned.

From the article: "Companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group receive government funding based on the number of people they detain, which is why they lobby for stricter immigration policies. It’s a lucrative business: CoreCivic made over $560m from Ice contracts in a single year. In 2024, GEO Group made more than $763m from Ice contracts."

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Post by [deleted] »

BrandoElFollito wrote: post #12

I traveled to the US (from my country -France- and many others) for 12 years. About a trip every month. The last time was 10 years ago. I never had any problems (outside the horrible behaviour of border officers who show you that you are not welcome). I was stopped once by a policeman when I did an illegal car maneuver (which is tolerated in France), and when he realized I was a tourist with family, he just said, "Be…

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