Welsh tourist in US chained 'like Hannibal Lecter'
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You think he will be gone after 4?
If you think he will, you haven't been paying attention.
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I'm brown in the US and I try not going anywhere. Every morning I have to drive by a school zone to get to the freeway and the police always parks right by the 20mph sign. If you don't see the fucker there, he is somewhere already detaining someone.
I've got a few friends that were adopted , one of Columbian decent the other Korean. I askd them how their feeling about all this if theyre worried. My Columbian buddy is a little concerned , wants tinted windows on his car etc., cant say i blame him.
Back during fuckboys first term my Korean buddy got locked up for a few months (non violent crime). I went to pick him up , when I got to the jail they said he was being detained. I got in touch later that evening and he was released. They were about to send him to Washington D.C. to get sent back to south Korea because of some bull shit error on his adoption paperwork from the early 80's. Luckily it all got straitened out but he was scared , he said they weren't fucking around. He was terrified he was going to get sent back to a country he left at 3 years old with no chance to return over a clerical error.
I could only imagine the wrong people (im not saying anyone deserves this level of harassment) are going to get hammered by all this hair trigger jackboot coward behavior.
I hope you don't get fucked with out there
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You think he will be gone after 4?
Dictatorship does not have fair elections.
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Like how of any nation is that green?
Doesn’t help that we have 3 identical political parties and then 1 party willing to join the trump train.
As much as I hate voting conservative this election I’m quite fed up with the liberals that represent us.
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Also it wasn't the woods, but an already detained "suspect" in the back of their police cruiser (where suspect is just really a person of colour in the wrong place at the wrong time).
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The “according to the law” line gets me, the laws are inhumane, you’re not a good person because you enforce nazi laws
There is no law anymore. This is full on dictatorship. Judges are being ignored. SCOTUS is complicit.
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You think he will be gone after 4?
Hopefully he’ll be deceased long before then but the reich is busy stacking courts and appointing party line people to jobs they have no qualifications for.
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I agree. It’s always been bubbling under the surface. Trump ignited the filth.
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You think he will be gone after 4?
As I said, "at least." I fully expect this bullshit to take multiple decades to Luigi everyone that is causing it because they just won't stop being greedy and hateful.
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Sorry, I don’t trust the people either when Trump has a nearly 50% approval rating
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I agree. It’s always been bubbling under the surface. Trump ignited the filth.
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As I said, "at least." I fully expect this bullshit to take multiple decades to Luigi everyone that is causing it because they just won't stop being greedy and hateful.
I enjoy seeing Luigi as a verb.
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Geezus. I’m right next door (Canadian), and I wouldn’t even consider going there. They’re going to start using ANY excuse to detain people. In December 2018, Canadian nationals Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig were taken into custody in China. It appeared that their detention on December 10 and subsequent indictment under the state secrets law were linked to the arrest of Huawei's chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, in Canada on December 1. In English-language media, the pair are frequently and colloquially referred to as the Two Michaels. Wikipedia
Wasn't it found that those two actually were spies, and it wasn't complete bs that China made that accusation?
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Anyone willing to encourage tourism to America by being such a guide would probably take your money and then find a reason to get you arrested by ICE anyway. Not like you could take it up with a consumer protection agency now.
This is the real way America will stop immigrants. By being completely awful.
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Summary
Welsh tourist Becky Burke was detained for 19 days in a US immigration facility and transported in chains like "Hannibal Lecter" after alleged visa violations.
Burke had been backpacking and staying with host families in exchange for help around the house, which authorities suspected breached her tourist visa conditions.
Deported on March 18, she described the ordeal as traumatizing. Her parents criticized the harsh treatment and are considering addressing the issue politically.
For some reason I'm confident this is not the first time this happened. But now it's covered by European sources so news leak out to the public.
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A US customs spokesman previously said they could not discuss specific cases but that travellers were treated with "integrity, respect and according to law".
Bullshit. Too many stories are coming out that prove that's a lie.
Fuck America and fuck Trump.
Anyone who's been arrested knows what a bunch of bullshit that is. The psychopath American people created a legal system that's as harsh and dehumanizing as they could possibly make it under the constitution, and now it's going to get worse.
The fucking cop car seats are made out of hard plastic, and there are no seat belts. They literally want you to fucking die in the way to jail. They don't care if you're innocent or guilty. And that's just the beginning.
The American people have made it plainly obvious for decades that the constitution is just a piece of paper that gets in the way of their bloodlust and cruelty.
Anyone who's surprised by America veering into fascism has only known this country from a coddled point of view. The current dictatorship is a wet dream for a lot of Americans, and they aren't going to change their minds until he destroys the country, and even then they'll probably celebrate it.
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For some reason I'm confident this is not the first time this happened. But now it's covered by European sources so news leak out to the public.
It happened to a well known Canadian actress (she is well known for her role in the American pie films). She was detained for months over what would have been a tiny paperwork error just a few years ago. She said that the women she was imprisoned also had no criminal record but were treated like murderers.
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Why are we not seeing more travel advisories? I know of a few but if this was any other nation you would have advisories from almost everyone by now.
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I'm lucky to work in an office that is a healthy mix of ethnicities so when I talk about politics there's enough people to make the racist bootlicking types obey their primary motivator, fear, and keep quiet.
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Like how of any nation is that green?
Jesus this is all there is for gender/sex/race/immigrant/etc discrimination, if you can even say it's about that
