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I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

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Re: I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

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Post by atoav »

mtmail wrote: post #277
gm678 wrote: post #260

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> Canadian woman put in chains, detained by ICE after entering San Diego border > She said the officer refused to allow her to go back to Mexico and ordered her to be detained. She was kept in a cold room at the border by CBP before being arrested by ICE, who placed her at the Otay Mesa Detention Center. Mooney claimed in the middle of the night she, along with a group of 30 other women, was rounded up to get transfe…

The German tourist is a tattoo artist traveled with her gear. Based on another article (in German) she used a tourist visa but had clients lined up. She should've used a business visa. [edit] Found an article with more info "[her US friend] told CNN that her German friend was joining her in Los Angeles to tattoo her. She speculated that immigration officials may have misinterpreted Brösche’s statements about the proj…

I decided not to visit (let alone work in) the US until it has adopted legal standards and enforcement that are suitable for a developed nation. The latest political developments have tanked my trust in the US even more.

And I don't mean you can't somehow get legal remedies when you have sufficient funds and time if someone mistreats you. In the US you can even get legal remedy when you were in the wrong, if you have the funds. I mean that the people down on the ground seem to act with arbitariness and no respect for the law or what is just, be it the police, border officers, employers, or whatnot. Police officers telling a perfectly calm person they are "resisting" is not normal. And the fact that a whole society seems to have given up on trying to solve that kind of uncivilized behavior (or is even defending it!) makes it worse.

If I want an adventure that can end my life I go into the mountains, there at least the air is nice.

Re: I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

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Post by atoav »

Alupis wrote: post #269
gm678 wrote: post #260

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> Canadian woman put in chains, detained by ICE after entering San Diego border > She said the officer refused to allow her to go back to Mexico and ordered her to be detained. She was kept in a cold room at the border by CBP before being arrested by ICE, who placed her at the Otay Mesa Detention Center. Mooney claimed in the middle of the night she, along with a group of 30 other women, was rounded up to get transfe…

If you believe that's the entire story - walked across the border was arrested - then I have a bridge to sell you...

Next time you live your country I wish you can feel what arbitrary tyrannical treatment at a border feel like, because it seems you are of the type that has to feel it themselves to learn.

Re: I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

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Post by psd1 »

nobodywillobsrv wrote: post #379
tshaddox wrote: post #262

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> Okay, you can go but you should carry your passport Funny, since half of U.S. citizens don't have a passport.

It is insane to travel without a passport. How is it even possible! Americans are living in some weird timeline.

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Re: I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

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Post by aprilthird2021 »

yes_really wrote: post #375
aprilthird2021 wrote: post #365

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Because supporting Palestine isn't hating Jews and posting people mugshot style on a website as anti-Semites because they support the Palestinian people right to have a nation and to return to the homes they were kicked out of is far-right. The same way wanting the Ukrainians to be able to go back to Crimea and other Russian-annexed lands is not hatred of Russians. And if a website posted mugshot style bios of Ukrain…

> Because supporting Palestine isn't hating Jews Did you fail to read any of my comments or are you just pretending? Khalil gave a speech openly defending the "armed resistance" of Hamas [1]. [1] https://x.com/canarymission/status/1900204678240928166

He didn't mention Hamas, or Jews. And what he said is not anything anti-Semitic either. It's also true. Under international law an invasion and occupation of one's land is a justified reason to launch an armed resistance. Like Ukraine did.

You may have wanted him to say, in that clip, "10/7 was justified" but he did not. He is simply saying that any type of amassing of arms will be seen by Israel as terrorism when they have a right to defend themselves. Do you think Palestine has no right to defend itself from Israel?

Re: I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

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Post by aprilthird2021 »

tome wrote: post #374
aprilthird2021 wrote: post #361

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Here's a fact about Israel. It is illegally annexing other countries' land right now with impunity. Is there any country that does this that isn't authoritarian and right wing?

Israel claims the Golan Heights as part of its sovereign territory. It captured the Golan Heights during a defensive war in 1967, when it also captured the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula. It gave back the Sinai Peninsula for a peace agreement with Egypt in 1979. The capture of all that territory happened under a left-wing Labor government led by Levi Eshkol. The return of the Sinai happened under a…

The right of conquest, which you are invoking, was ended after WWII, due to the disastrous consequences of its implementation by a group Israel claims to be so against.

None of what you said changes the fact that there are no non-authoritarian, left-wing countries which annex land in war. Russia does it. Azerbaijan does it. Can you give some examples that contradict this? That's what I asked. I didn't ask for a flimsy justification to flaunt international law.

I will also say, though I hope you don't only respond to this and ignore the other parts, as you've done so far, that Israel is a democracy in name only. It has many subjects who have no right to vote who were born in the land Israel controls (The West Bank and Gaza), who have no other citizenship, and who are native to the land stretching back to at least before the founding of Israel. Of course, because Israel wishes to be an state controlled by a specific ethnicity, it cannot allow such people to vote. So how much of a democracy is it really? It's as if we called the US a democracy if it only allowed voting in such a pattern that white people were always the majority, or as if Saudi Arabia transitioned to a democracy but only in such a way that House of Saud members would always be the voting majority. How democratic would that really be?

Re: I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

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Post by aprilthird2021 »

tome wrote: post #373
lazyasciiart wrote: post #357

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> Israel's military operates according to the laws of war That’s a highly contested claim and I personally don’t believe it. You can prove it to be false without even looking at their actions in Gaza, just the torture of prisoners.

It is not the policy of the Israeli military to torture prisoners. If your point is "The US behaved significantly worse than Israel in Abu Ghraib and I hate the US" then fair enough. I don't really have a response.

It is actually the policy though. There are tons of documented stories of physical and sexual abuse in Israeli prisons, which hold many people without formal charges or a right to any kind of due process. That being said, lots of countries do this. Iran, for example.

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Post by aprilthird2021 »

yes_really wrote: post #376
lazyasciiart wrote: post #366

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How about this one that says Dick Durban is supporting Hamas because he has advocated for the release of Mahmoud Khalil? Along with all the celebration of DHS arrests on campus and advocating to deport more students, calling Khalil and campus protests terrorism, and proclaiming that support for Palestine is a mastermind plot by Iran to destroy America? I could also accept a description as “extremists out in their own…

> How about this one that says Dick Durban is supporting Hamas because he has advocated for the release of Mahmoud Khalil? You made a false statement of fact. The tweet never said that. It reads [1]: > 1/ Canary Mission is apolitical. We call out antisemitism on all sides and have never had a vested interest in a political party. However, Senator Dick Durbin is testing our principles like never before. His defense of…

He doesn't mention Hamas, and there's no proof available that the man is a pro-Hamas activist. He has never self-claimed any such thing either.

Also, Durbin is not defending his views. They are defending his right to not be disappeared to another state in ICE custody without being charged with any crimes. All of that cannot be labeled anti-Semitism. By this logic, the ACLU was anti-Semitic for its defense of civil liberties in the Skokie case

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Post by CivBase »

nobodywillobsrv wrote: post #379
tshaddox wrote: post #262

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> Okay, you can go but you should carry your passport Funny, since half of U.S. citizens don't have a passport.

It is insane to travel without a passport. How is it even possible! Americans are living in some weird timeline.

They were on a road trip in the United States and never crossed an international border. Why would they need a passport? I've never taken mine on a trip like that.

Re: I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

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Post by mzayatz »

light_hue_1 wrote: post #378
int_19h wrote: post #372

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Enhanced driver licenses, not regular ones. These come with a whole lot of federal strings attached, and exist pretty much entirely for the purpose of traveling across the border without a passport. As far as I know, the feds require citizenship checks for any participating state. Now, in some states, regular driver licenses have a citizen or non-citizen marker on them, but that's a whole separate thing (and AFAIK th…

States can give out enhanced driver's licenses to people who are non citizens. The only requirement is that they are here legally at the time.

That’s not correct. An enhanced driver’s license requires US citizenship.

https://www.dhs.gov/enhanced-drivers-licenses-what-are-they

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