I'm the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by femiagbabiaka » Tue, Mar 25, 2025, 3:03 PM UTC

runarberg wrote: post #762

femiagbabiaka wrote: post #699

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Simple. It doesn't cause (genuine) outrage and it doesn't get them shut down. AOC for example, protested these private prisons during Trump's first term and went silent on them when Biden didn't close them.

Here is a tweet from soon after Biden took office in January 2021: > People must understand the depth of what’s happening here: the President of the United States has ordered a halt to deportations. ICE, a federal agency, is refusing to comply. > There’s no reforming this rogue dept. It’s time for a new, just vision. https://x.com/AOC/status/1354211627940384768 A month later she was criticizing DHS for still having P…

1) Tweets are not substantive action. I was actually involved in abolish ICE actions in real life and watched it die.

2) Tweets are even less meaningful when in real life she supported at every step the people who were actively propping up ICE. Including Bernie, who just recently said Biden could have done more on illegal immigration. (Biden deported more people than Trump 1).

AOC actually has a long track record of saying one thing and doing another, like the controversy over her “present” vote on weapons to Israel. This is the major reason why the Squad broke up. The most charitable interpretation of it is that she wants to gain cache within her party. But she doesn’t realize her party hates her.

If you want to continue to champion someone like that, I have no problem with it, at the least she’s effective at bringing people to the left after they are inevitably disillusioned by something her or Bernie does.

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

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Post by tunapizza » Tue, Apr 01, 2025, 1:34 AM UTC

ThePowerOfFuet wrote: post #251

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…

>because of jokes in her text messages about a [Green Card] marriage Let this be a lesson to all those who think it's fine to unlock their phone and hand it to cops.

It's either that, or get denied. Interestingly enough, however, it's quite easy to "prepare" for a phone search in advance since border agents can only search the actual content of your phone. You just need to delete apps and reinstall them after you passed the border. Their "advanced" forensics tools would likely find traces of those deleted apps, though.

"CBP officers can only search and access data stored on the device’s hard drive or operating system. The search does not include data that is stored remotely in a Cloud format. The officer must ensure that data and network connections are disabled before starting the search, for example, by asking the traveler to turn the device into airplane mode and disabling Wi-Fi."

[https://hselaw.com/news-and-information/legalcurrents/prepar...]

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

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Apr 01, 2025, 3:16 PM UTC

mdp2021 wrote: post #650

instakill wrote: post #377

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where is this guideline text from? Want to explore, tx.

? You have been here for a while, of course I meant > Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html I got confused on some words in my memory during the rush, sorry. Did you understand any different reference?

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