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Jasmine Mooney, a 35-year-old Canadian woman, has been detained in U.S. immigration facilities since March 3 after attempting to enter with an incomplete Trade NAFTA work visa application.

She was initially held at San Ysidro border crossing before being transferred in chains to detention centers in San Diego and Arizona.

Her mother, Alexis Eagles, reports inhumane conditions including overcrowded concrete cells with constant lighting and inadequate facilities.

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.

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 points 45 minutes ago

In a statement, Global Affairs Canada said consular officials are in contact with local authorities to gather additional information and provide consular assistance.

“Every country or territory decides who can enter or exit through its borders. The Government of Canada cannot intervene on behalf of Canadian citizens with regard to the entry and exit requirements of another country,” the statement read.

Whilst smiling very slightly manically, and quietly whispering with the eyes ”I’m going to fucking murder you, and I’m going to take my time about it”

This is a Type 2 “Sorry” scenario

[–] mrhenry77@lemmy.world 26 points 8 hours ago

How to make anyone scared to ever visit your country again..

[–] StopTouchingYourPhone@lemmy.world 23 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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."

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 points 1 hour ago

..."violate the very idea that Canadians are safe in the U.S. when we visit."

Mexico and friends: "¿primer tiempo?"

[–] Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip 67 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

Idk why you'd ever want to go to america, but now the time is even worse

[–] Corno@lemm.ee 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I was planning on travelling to California to meet a good friend of mine. I explained that I've had to change plans amist...well, all this, and my friend said something along the lines of "I don't blame you, I wouldn't even consider visiting this country for the next 4 years".

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

I know that feel, but I would have never thought I would understand feeling like so towards the US until the current regime. Last time I felt it, the country in question was Iran lol

[–] Corno@lemm.ee 2 points 1 hour ago

Honestly, same. It's still really surreal to me.

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."

[–] AJ1@lemmy.ca 20 points 16 hours ago

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.

[–] meowmeowbeanz@sopuli.xyz 166 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

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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[–] Alloi@lemmy.world 51 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] fishy@lemmy.today 33 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 17 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Triasha@lemmy.world 23 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

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.

[–] fishy@lemmy.today 14 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

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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[–] decapitae@sh.itjust.works 48 points 18 hours ago

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.

[–] RabbitBBQ@lemmy.world 20 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Canada needs a Dennis Rodman to send over to try to get the hostages back like Obama did with North Korea

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[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 51 points 21 hours ago

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.

[–] Billybob22@feddit.uk 93 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

America is now an axis of evil state. No better than Iran or Russia.

[–] AreaSIX@lemm.ee 47 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (3 children)

"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.

[–] Miaou@jlai.lu 29 points 22 hours ago (7 children)

Also ironic given Iran is in this state because of US imperialism

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[–] wampus@lemmy.ca 243 points 1 day ago (6 children)

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.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 33 points 22 hours ago

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.

[–] jhymesba@lemmy.world 92 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 288 points 1 day ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (22 children)

Fucking shameful. This is how we treat our allies? I am ashamed to be an American.

[–] RainbowHedgehog@lemm.ee 168 points 1 day ago (1 children)

TBF, this is how we treat Americans.

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 118 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (14 children)

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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[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 92 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 56 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago

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.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 86 points 1 day ago (5 children)

That could just be the media's bias in reporting.

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 102 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] Doctor_Satan@lemmy.world 30 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] tlekiteki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 80 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Now it come back around to the white people

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 97 points 1 day ago

no amount of conformity will ever make you safe under fascism. the noose will always tighten to meet the fascists' needs for torture. once the old enemy is eliminated a new hegemony will be homogenized and the torture will continue either at the same pace or accelerated.

it's not really about skin tone, accent, visa access, sexual identity, gender identity, or even political stance. it's about that the fascists must other, and they will other you any way that thy can.

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