Her point about private contractors being paid by the number of people detained is an important larger warning. Privatized systems are not magically more efficient; they can just as easily be the driver of the bureaucratic labyrinth.
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
#202Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
> Why the fuck would anybody with any amount of dignity cause it upon themselves willingly? Presumably because their home country treats them even worse? At least that's the point of the refugee program.
> Presumably because their home country treats them even worse
True or not, the important part of why people emigrate is because they believe it to be better. US has been really good at propaganda for a long time, and many outsiders (used to) believe that the US truly is the land of the free, although all the evidence pointed in the other direction.
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#203Earlier quoted context omitted.
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Trump won because he took all the liberal policies that the Democrats abandoned for more extreme values and made them his core values. This is why he had the most diverse set of voters in the history of the Republican Party, because many were ex-Democrats.
Liberal values such as bullying transgender people
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#204These things wouldn't definitely happen if a reciprocity policy would be in effect. The problem is that if you apply this policy against the US, a country pays its consequences either directly or indirectly. If all countries at least in America agree on to apply reciprocity, maybe things would change a little.
I think boycotting the US would be a more effective option, and I say that as someone who lives in FL (which depends on international tourism heavily).
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#205Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is there a Democrat doing ANYTHING beside Bernie Sanders? Chuck Schumer is actively aiding the Republicans at this point. Where are the other Democratic leaders to rally people? Where's Kamala Harris or Hillary, I thought they were supposed to be strong leaders? I only see the far left of the party doing anything at all. I honestly think the Democrats are so captured by corporate interests that they would prefer Trum…
The real question is: Where are the American people? Americans need to get of their asses and stop the fascist in chief.
Americans know well that nails that stick up get hammered down. Should I join a militia and gamble my life?
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#206Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is there a Democrat doing ANYTHING beside Bernie Sanders? Chuck Schumer is actively aiding the Republicans at this point. Where are the other Democratic leaders to rally people? Where's Kamala Harris or Hillary, I thought they were supposed to be strong leaders? I only see the far left of the party doing anything at all. I honestly think the Democrats are so captured by corporate interests that they would prefer Trum…
The real question is: Where are the American people? Americans need to get of their asses and stop the fascist in chief.
Well almost half of them are supporting this. Then there's that story yesterday about Erdogan banning his opponent in Turkey. South Korea just narrowly avoided turning into a dictatorship (and honestly they're still in the weeds a bit). And something like 1/3 of South Koreans still support that would-be dictator. I've just been extremely depressed lately about the prospect of democracy and freedom of speech just being dead ends.
Even here in Canada my local Conservative Party leader is trying to remove checks and balances on his power in my province. I guess the paradox of tolerance is real. Too many people want strongmen or are at least indifferent.
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#207>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…
Technically, that's not what the separation clause is about. That was not, however, professional behavior for a nurse, but I see extremely religious nurses on the reg. Much less so with doctors, but then again religiosity is inversely proportional to education.
Superstition can be inversely proportional to education. Cultivation should be proportional to education.
That term you used is very slippery (actually, you used it as the opposite of a "superstition" - you gave it only the interpretation typical of later uses).
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#208Earlier quoted context omitted.
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Trump won because he took all the liberal policies that the Democrats abandoned for more extreme values and made them his core values. This is why he had the most diverse set of voters in the history of the Republican Party, because many were ex-Democrats.
Another moron who thinks trump saying something will happen means it actually happened already.
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#210Earlier quoted context omitted.
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Is there a Democrat doing ANYTHING beside Bernie Sanders? Chuck Schumer is actively aiding the Republicans at this point. Where are the other Democratic leaders to rally people? Where's Kamala Harris or Hillary, I thought they were supposed to be strong leaders? I only see the far left of the party doing anything at all. I honestly think the Democrats are so captured by corporate interests that they would prefer Trum…
> do something
If you think of anything they can do, go ahead and leave them a voicemail