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How to make anyone scared to ever visit your country again..
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B.C. woman held in detention for 11 days after trying to enter U.S. to be released, father says
Grateful to the family using their privledge and platform to talk about the conditions at the San Ysidro border crossing, the San Diego cells, and in San Luis Regional Detention Center. Keeping the lights on all the time is torture.
"There's 30 other people in her cell that have not even been spoken to by a detention caseworker. So there are people in there whose families don't know where their kids are." - Jasmine's father, Stephen Mooney.
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[B.C. Premier David Eby] also said he was "profoundly concerned about these kind of actions" by the U.S. administration, saying they "violate the very idea that Canadians are safe in the U.S. when we visit."
"The nature of our relationship is so fraught right now that this case makes us all wonder, you know, what about our relatives who are working in the States? What about when we cross the border, what kind of experience are we gonna have?" Eby said.
Yukon Premier Ranj Pillai also weighed in on Thursday, with a letter to the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement urging Jasmine's "prompt release," and saying "the treatment of our citizens while in the U.S. must be fair and transparent."
Idk why you'd ever want to go to america, but now the time is even worse
That's what the family are thinking about now that she's being (hopefully) released. She apparently spent thousands building up some kind of business down there and now that's up in the air.
B.C. woman held in detention for 11 days after trying to enter U.S. to be released, father says
"Of course, we've got to question that now — do you really want to work in the States after this has happened to you?" [Mooney's dad, Stephen] said.
"That process down there is terrible, and I believe it's worse because of the new administration, because of Trump … I would be cautious for anyone to go into the States."
I have family down there that I may never get to see again, and I'm still not going. Fuck that, I'd rather die homeless and alone in Canada than go back into enemy territory. Sorry mom, I'll visit your grave someday... possibly. Or you can visit mine, whichever comes first. Either way, it's all good.
Inhuman treatment of others is the first sign you might be a closet Nazi. Our nation has soiled the bed, and keeps rolling around in it insisting nothing is wrong.
If this is how they treat a white Canadian businesswoman, imagine what they're doing to non-white migrants. System's rotten to the core.
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theres a channel 5 segment on it, the dude decided to cross from mexico with "coyotes" back into the US, as an american, and they got caught. spent several days in shite conditions, and talks about whole process. its pretty interesting.
Channel five is fucking wild. I love it.
Bald and bankrupt did a video that is much more in depth on the trail the illegal immigrants use. Anybody who's willing to go through that hell to get to the States isn't someone in worried about paying welfare for, those people got fucking gumption.
It's depressing how much better Americans the illegals often are compared to the native trash we have in the south.
They should be terrified of great replacement, that's like upgrading from a burning pinto to a Bugatti.
They are terrified. The US got Texas with great replacement in the 1840's. White people came legally at first and then streamed across the border overwhelming the natives and Mexicans and they brought slaves and when Mexico told them slavery is illegal they declared the Texas revolution and more white Americans came to help fight it (including Davy Crockett) and they won and a few years later the US annexed Mexico
They fear Mexicans doing the same thing back. They won't, but conservative white people don't believe that.
You are giving them too much credit, they didn't study history. Conservatives fear them because their world is so small and the unknown scares them. They're terrified because they've never been abroad, they live their whole ass lives knowing the same people they grew up with, driving the same roads, working the same shit job.
They don't understand everyone is just a person.
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Similar to what was done in both Florida and Hawai’i too.
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Canada needs a Dennis Rodman to send over to try to get the hostages back like Obama did with North Korea
I thought that’s why you sent Gretzky? You can have him back btw.
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Business partner BJ McCaslin called the situation a “nightmare” while Global Affairs Canada confirmed they’re aware but unable to intervene in U.S. immigration matters.
Oh fuck that, what else does Global Affairs do if not at the very least advocate for Canadians imprisoned in a hostile foreign nation? She was stopped and jailed for not having a complete work visa, that is not an immigration matter its a refusal of entry issue. Like whats the crime here? And not deporting someone due to them not being allowed in the US (but then holding them in the US) should be an act of war.
America is now an axis of evil state. No better than Iran or Russia.
"Axis of evil" was a phrase coined by W in order to justify his highly illegal "war on terror", and we're still paying the price for that. Just adopting a propaganda concept this stupid as a viable way to categorize nations is not a good move.
Also ironic given Iran is in this state because of US imperialism
Comparing Iran to Russia and the US is strange in every way. Iran has a very defensive military, geared towards defending Iran. There aren't exactly private military contractors from Iran everywhere just murdering anyone that isn't snow white. Iran hasn't surrounded the US with military bases. People just completely swallowed that axis of evil horseshit.
Um look I‘m completely against both Russian and American imperialism, but they did support Assad in Syria: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_intervention_in_the_Syrian_civil_war
Iirc they sent their revolutionary guards there to fight. And Hezbollah was deeply involved in defending the Assad regime. With the Houthis, Hamas and Hezbollah they do have proxy armies in the Middle East.
Iran is a lovely country and its horrible what western imperialism has done to it, but their regime is as shitty as it gets. If Palestine were suddenly freed from the Zionists and they’d be under the influence of Iran instead it would be the same shit all over again, saying this just to make a point.
Iran got involved in Syria to fight IS, the same people that rebranded as HTS, the leader of which now has put on a suit, changed his name and rules the new Syria. One of the first thing they did: started massacring minorities in Syria by the thousands, just in the last week. Also, Syria is in the Middle East, next to Iran. Iran isn't involved in military operations in Mexico. If IS wasn't stopped in Iraq and Syria, they'd be massacring civilians in Iran, since Iranians are Shia and therefore heretics to be killed.
Your view unfortunately seems to have been influenced by the classification of nations as axis of evil that I referred to above. It's confused and incoherent, and lacks a whole lot of nuance. That's what happens when nations are classified as "evil", which is a metaphysical religious term making nuance impossible. You say "if Palestine were suddenly freed from the Zionists", thereby implying that you consider this a worth while goal, while simultaneously vilifying the only forces in the region working to achieve that liberation, namely Hamas, Hizbollah and Ansar Allah in Yemen, as "proxy armies" of Iran, completely delegitimizing their agency and the fight for the very liberation you seem to support.
Finally, it's absolutely wild to state that a Palestine under the influence of Iran would be "the same shit all over again" as the almost century long oppression, occupation, dispossession and genocide carried out by the Zionists against the Palestinian people. Absolutely wild! I urge you to take a step back and consider that statement, and why you would make such an absurd and outrageous claim to begin with. Because I feel like you're doing that without thinking about it a whole lot, and would reconsider that position if you thought about the comparison you're making. Iran has zero designs on dispossessing or occupying Palestine and its people. To compare that with what Israel has been doing is just not a good look.
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It's starting to seem like Canada should issue a travel advisory against going to the USA.
In some ways I hope it doesn't come to that. In others .... I mean, I'd win a friendly bet if it happened, so there's that.
Honestly yeah, if a paperwork fuck up can get you detained for more than 24 hours there's something seriously wrong and travelling there is dangerous for the border police alone.
If I were in charge, that's exactly what I would do. "US ICE agents are detaining Canadian citizens at the border. Until and unless US agents stop detaining Canadians at the border and return those they have detained, we are advising Canadian citizens to not travel to the USA." Post it right next to all other Canadian travel advisories.
And do what Lithuania did at the Belarusian border: There are signs telling pretty much the analogue to what you're suggesting. On the roadside while approaching the border. As physical signs.
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Fucking shameful. This has how we treat our allies? I am ashamed to be an American.
That and threatening to eliminate our country altogether. We're not really feeling the "allies" thing these days. I fairly often visit the USA, but I'm rethinking that now, along with many other Canadians. And I'm taking my money out of the USA too, wherever possible.
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I do not find it a coincidence that its been happening specifically to young women. Yet to see 6'2 Canadian male hockey player get grabbed.
I guarantee you they do not care. This is far more likely to be media bias. If they're detaining her for an incomplete visa instead of just turning her around then they're detaining people every day, no matter their nationality or body build. It sounds cool to think they'd be afraid of a large guy but the US police are sadly just more likely to kill them with guns.
This is far more likely to be media bias.
Yeah the story of the German girl it happened to around the same time included her talking about a Spanish lad in the cell with her for the same thing.
Not saying it wasn't reported on in Spain but I didn't see his case anywhere in the news.
It did happen to an Irish girl too last month. Fortunately we've fairly decent relations with the US but unfortunately it didn't sound like her treatment was any better than this tbh.
That could just be the media's bias in reporting.
Yeah, same happens with kidnapping and murder victims. There’s a reason it’s called Missing White Woman Syndrome. The media is extremely biased towards covering attractive young white women who have gone missing, while virtually every other demographic gets ignored. Asian and Latina women are often covered disproportionately as well, but not to the extent that missing white women are covered. Black women get almost no coverage, and the same goes for men of basically every race and age.
I remember many years ago, there were two little girls that went missing about the same time. One was white, the other black. The little white girl just got lost and was found pretty quickly, and her story dominated the news for weeks. Meanwhile, the little black girl (I think it was in West Virginia) had been kidnapped by a sadistic couple who abused and tortured her until one night she chewed through her bindings, escaped, and trekked through the forest for days before finding help. She barely got a "missing girl found" blurb on the news. The fact that she barely got any news coverage actually became a bigger story later on than her actual kidnapping did at the time. It was infuriating.
Don't even get me started on the missing and murdered indigenous women (MMIW) phenomenon that not only gets next to zero media coverage, but also a severe lack of law enforcement attention.
With MMIW, often the cops are involved/know more than they let on. “Starlight tours” I don’t think are just a Canadian thing.
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Native women have been getting kidnapped for centuries. It’s not even news.
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