AND this is why I’m telling ppl that ppl likely won’t get ss checks next month…because these ppl are ruthless. Nobody wants to believe this stuff, but the sooner ppl realize this injustice is happening, the more proactive they can be.
I am a white woman from Europe. There is no fucking way I will visit the US for the next decade or so. Not with a visa, not for work, not for anything.
I would only add the profit motive for keeping as many people locked up for as many reasons and with as many excuses to keep them there as makes a buck for Trump Donors.
Unfortunately, if your visa expires the government has the right to detain you. This has always been the case. Also, any Border Patrol goon has the right to detain a person at the border, even a US citizen.
When I was a Muslim 20 years ago wearing a headscarf, I lived 10 minutes away from the US-Canada border. I had a Pakistani-American friend from NYC visit me, and we decided to go to Niagara Falls for the day. When we crossed the border back into the US, we were both detained by the US Border Patrol even though we were US citizens, as was shown clearly on our passports. We were put in a big room and detained for several hours.
If you enter the US, or try to, with an expired visa, of course you're going to be detained. This has always been the case. In my life as a Muslim, I was also detained at the Manchester airport in the UK. They can detain you for dubious reasons and have been doing so forever. Especially if you're Muslim or a non-citizen, but it can happen to US born citizens.
"She ended up leaving that job, but was hired by another US-based health-and-wellness brand — so she started the visa process again. However, when she went down to the San Diego office to get that taken care of, she was told she had to apply at the consulate and would be sent home to Canada.
But they did not send her back home to Canada. Instead, while she was looking for flights, a man came up and led her off, telling her only that she was being detained."
This passage led me to believe she did not have a visa but was applying for one when she got detained.
Yes, she didn't have an expired visa, she was merely applying for a new visa after her previous one had been taken away for basically no reason. She was then detained for basically no reason after she had broken no law nor tried to enter the country illegally. What are you missing?
Taken away isn't the same thing as expired, there's also no evidence that she ever did anything illegal. Mansplaining is just something women say when they're wrong.
I really don't want to enter the country at all but I have grandchildren to visit. This is happeneing time and time again to ordinary people, some of whom, like myself, have just been critical of Trump online. The US is becoming a pariah state.
Five dollars that Mooney’s ICE agent did this shit to her specifically because she was Canadian and he’s pissed at how the Canadians “disrespected” Trump.
Man, if I were the Canadian Prime Minister I'd be publicizing and denouncing this and demanding explanations from King Elon's jester to the hilt! This is "Reasons countries go to war" type stuff!
So my foray across the border into the U.S. wasn't unusual in additional hassles, it was creepy in the lack of normalcy.VERY few passenger vehicles, LOTS of trucks. Three questions. Where going, where live, anything to declare. K, thx bye.
Normally there's an average 15 min wait with 2 or 3 lanes open. Today, one lane, and one vehicle ahead of me. It was like Covid days.
My God, what the hell have we become? Uganda under Idi Amin will do for a start. Afghanistan? They hate women and erase them from public life. On occasion, permanently. Iran? Not much better than the Taliban. North Korea? Goes without saying. There are more, I think you can tell where we are headed with King Trump, soon to crown himself Emperor.
"French Scientist Who Shared Opinion On Trump Research Policy Denied U.S. Entry, France Says
France's Higher Education Minister Philippe Baptiste said a French academic was blocked from entering the U.S. to attend a conference earlier this month when authorities discovered his phone contained "conversations with colleagues and friends in which he expressed a personal opinion on the Trump administration’s research policy," according to Politico.
The academic, who works in the space sector and whose identity has not been revealed, was travelling to the U.S. on March 9, and underwent a random check on arrival, according to the AFP agency. His phone and computer were examined and messages referring to Trump’s policies toward the academia were found. According to the AFP, the researcher was accused of sending messages “that expressed hatred towards Trump and can be qualified as terrorism,” but all charges against him were eventually dropped." https://www.politico.eu/article/france-academic-denied-entry-united-states-donald-trump-personal-opinion-messages/?utm_source=buzzfeed&utm_medium=iframely
This seems to be some read late 70's/early 80's Argentina desaparecidos shit. Business women, academics, students. Who's next? Anyone who bruises the feelings of the tender little flower currently desecrating the White House? Judges? Lawyers?
Wish I could share the picture, but I am already buying the shirt "Deport Nazis", ❤️
AND this is why I’m telling ppl that ppl likely won’t get ss checks next month…because these ppl are ruthless. Nobody wants to believe this stuff, but the sooner ppl realize this injustice is happening, the more proactive they can be.
I am a white woman from Europe. There is no fucking way I will visit the US for the next decade or so. Not with a visa, not for work, not for anything.
Wonderful write up, I feel informed.
I would only add the profit motive for keeping as many people locked up for as many reasons and with as many excuses to keep them there as makes a buck for Trump Donors.
Unfortunately, if your visa expires the government has the right to detain you. This has always been the case. Also, any Border Patrol goon has the right to detain a person at the border, even a US citizen.
When I was a Muslim 20 years ago wearing a headscarf, I lived 10 minutes away from the US-Canada border. I had a Pakistani-American friend from NYC visit me, and we decided to go to Niagara Falls for the day. When we crossed the border back into the US, we were both detained by the US Border Patrol even though we were US citizens, as was shown clearly on our passports. We were put in a big room and detained for several hours.
If you enter the US, or try to, with an expired visa, of course you're going to be detained. This has always been the case. In my life as a Muslim, I was also detained at the Manchester airport in the UK. They can detain you for dubious reasons and have been doing so forever. Especially if you're Muslim or a non-citizen, but it can happen to US born citizens.
Read the article, her visa didn't expire, that's not what happened.
"She ended up leaving that job, but was hired by another US-based health-and-wellness brand — so she started the visa process again. However, when she went down to the San Diego office to get that taken care of, she was told she had to apply at the consulate and would be sent home to Canada.
But they did not send her back home to Canada. Instead, while she was looking for flights, a man came up and led her off, telling her only that she was being detained."
This passage led me to believe she did not have a visa but was applying for one when she got detained.
Yes, she didn't have an expired visa, she was merely applying for a new visa after her previous one had been taken away for basically no reason. She was then detained for basically no reason after she had broken no law nor tried to enter the country illegally. What are you missing?
Not a thing, bruh. But you did. You said it yourself - her previous visa had been "taken away." Enough mansplaining, please.
Taken away isn't the same thing as expired, there's also no evidence that she ever did anything illegal. Mansplaining is just something women say when they're wrong.
Stop already.
This is terrifying. What has the US turned into?
I really don't want to enter the country at all but I have grandchildren to visit. This is happeneing time and time again to ordinary people, some of whom, like myself, have just been critical of Trump online. The US is becoming a pariah state.
There are two things Republicans really hate.
1. Being called fascists.
2. Anti-fascists.
Five dollars that Mooney’s ICE agent did this shit to her specifically because she was Canadian and he’s pissed at how the Canadians “disrespected” Trump.
Man, if I were the Canadian Prime Minister I'd be publicizing and denouncing this and demanding explanations from King Elon's jester to the hilt! This is "Reasons countries go to war" type stuff!
So my foray across the border into the U.S. wasn't unusual in additional hassles, it was creepy in the lack of normalcy.VERY few passenger vehicles, LOTS of trucks. Three questions. Where going, where live, anything to declare. K, thx bye.
Normally there's an average 15 min wait with 2 or 3 lanes open. Today, one lane, and one vehicle ahead of me. It was like Covid days.
Good.
Elbows up! 💪
I hope she sues their collective asshole out.
For what?
Bet nobody still wonders how Hitler got the Germans to go along with him anymore, huh?
Ta, Robyn. A harrowing tale, indeed, and one that I worry is going to become all too common.
My God, what the hell have we become? Uganda under Idi Amin will do for a start. Afghanistan? They hate women and erase them from public life. On occasion, permanently. Iran? Not much better than the Taliban. North Korea? Goes without saying. There are more, I think you can tell where we are headed with King Trump, soon to crown himself Emperor.
"French Scientist Who Shared Opinion On Trump Research Policy Denied U.S. Entry, France Says
France's Higher Education Minister Philippe Baptiste said a French academic was blocked from entering the U.S. to attend a conference earlier this month when authorities discovered his phone contained "conversations with colleagues and friends in which he expressed a personal opinion on the Trump administration’s research policy," according to Politico.
The academic, who works in the space sector and whose identity has not been revealed, was travelling to the U.S. on March 9, and underwent a random check on arrival, according to the AFP agency. His phone and computer were examined and messages referring to Trump’s policies toward the academia were found. According to the AFP, the researcher was accused of sending messages “that expressed hatred towards Trump and can be qualified as terrorism,” but all charges against him were eventually dropped." https://www.politico.eu/article/france-academic-denied-entry-united-states-donald-trump-personal-opinion-messages/?utm_source=buzzfeed&utm_medium=iframely
I'd say he dodged a bullet.
Holy fucking Nazi shit!
This seems to be some read late 70's/early 80's Argentina desaparecidos shit. Business women, academics, students. Who's next? Anyone who bruises the feelings of the tender little flower currently desecrating the White House? Judges? Lawyers?