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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 walls »

kcplate wrote: post #104
Zambyte wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What was wrong with Harris?

She had only one really important job to do as vice president—become president if the president was incapable of doing the job. She, like many administration (and media), put her political party’s optics over the good of the country and tried to hide Joe Biden’s mental decline from the population. She was literally derelict in her most important duty as vice president. How could she be trusted as president? I’m an in…

"My feelings are so important I'd rather let the country fall to fascism than make a small concession."

You're an embarrassment, I hope you get what you 'voted' for.

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

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Post by twUewhag »

pjc50 wrote: post #124
jajko wrote: post #85

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Smart immigrants shouldn't migrate to US anymore, period. Not if you have more than just very short-sighted dollar signs on your eyes. Its just plain out stupid thing to do, to be treated worse than garbage. This is how institutionalized xenophobia looks like. The fact is, I've read very similar articles about how US treats any non-US citizens a decade or two ago. Nothing changed dramatically, people just bring these…

As a Brit: be careful about bigging up how Europe treats immigrants, because the Mediterranean issue has really upped the brutality of immigration enforcement and has resulted in some countries making it illegal to rescue drowning people.

The charges are that they facilitated trafficking by rescuing people that didn't need rescuing:

https://www.euronews.com/2023/06/30/these-people-face-20-yea...

Ironically somewhat corroborated by the photo in the article. What is the solution for Italy and Greece with these massive coast lines and islands? The refugees deliberately lose their passports. If the rescuers dumped them in a random North African country, everything would be fine. But they want to import as many as possible for ideological reasons.

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

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Post by blindriver »

freehorse wrote: post #154
blindriver wrote: post #92

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Nothing wrong. The previous poster claimed that the US Border patrol was excessively scary but my point is this happens everywhere around the world.

The part OP is scared of and points to is some border guard revoking your visa, which probably implies you losing your job and having to leave the country you live in. This is scary because it is a very big, bad outcome to be totally in the authority of a random border guard to decide. Waking out by guards and dogs barking on a train is scary in its own right the moment it happens, but we are talking about totally di…

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

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Post by righthand »

mandmandam wrote: post #179
righthand wrote: post #116

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> 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…

> it would have set herself up for a lie No. Committing genocide - murdering tens of thousands of children - nullifies any previous weapons contracts. That's obvious. Here's the specific law against it [0]. If you want to insist that Harris would be "forced" to keep arming Israel because of contracts, I do hope you'll have a read of it first. 0 - Section 502B of the Foreign Assistance Act (FAA), codified at 22 U.S.C.…

Unfortunately like Trump, that spending is out of her hands. That spending like all spending is set by the legislature through bills. She could have done nothing and saying she could is a lie you’re telling yourself.

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

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Post by Mashimo »

blindriver wrote: post #92
ssijak wrote: post #69

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"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.

Nothing wrong. The previous poster claimed that the US Border patrol was excessively scary but my point is this happens everywhere around the world.

They detained her for 2 weeks, while the lights where always on. I think that is a bit more then aggressively asking for papers.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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

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Post by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF »

kcplate wrote: post #104
Zambyte wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What was wrong with Harris?

She had only one really important job to do as vice president—become president if the president was incapable of doing the job. She, like many administration (and media), put her political party’s optics over the good of the country and tried to hide Joe Biden’s mental decline from the population. She was literally derelict in her most important duty as vice president. How could she be trusted as president? I’m an in…

I remember in 2016 I had the luxury to vote third-party. Now my life is on the line, though, so I always vote. It'd be super nifty if you voted too so I don't die before my time

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

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Post by greatpatton »

JeremyNT wrote: post #169

Flagged, of course, to death. This is an important story of US decline. This woman was here to do business. To work with Americans. If you're flagging this because you're a part of the tech right, who thinks these policies are somehow good for you, maybe hold off on that flag button and let the discussion play out here. Think about what happens if people from the rest of the world are terrified of working within this…

I think I will just skip HN in the future. The number of relevant post to tech and business in the US now that are getting flagged is becoming ridiculous.
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