U.S. Border Enforcement - ICE will get you

[Beebo Brink]

These incidents are becoming so common now, that they deserve their own thread.

I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre | US immigration | The Guardian

[Becky] has emerged from the experience with new eyes. “I was naive to think that what was going on in the world, or at the border, wouldn’t affect me,” she tells me, her arms folded across her chest. She had believed if she was honest and acted in good faith she would be insulated from harm, but now thinks that might have been naive, too. “If I’d lied, I’d be on holiday in Canada right now.”

 

[Rose Karuna]

These incidents are becoming so common now, that they deserve their own thread.

I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre | US immigration | The Guardian

This is horrifying. I can't imagine that happening to someone just traveling.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Heavy discussion on these (plural) events on various reddit subs. There was mention that like the detention centres in Trump V.1, they're all private industries paid by tax monies by the day.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

This is horrifying. I can't imagine that happening to someone just traveling.

From the article

There were other tourists, too. Bana, from Romania, was on holiday in Canada and visited Peace Arch park, on the international boundary between the US and Canada. She told Becky she had been taking selfies with her husband when a US border official told her they had strayed into American territory without the right visa and took her into custody.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Peace Arch Park, where I've attended Hands Across the Border as a Scout.

"The monument and surrounding park is considered an international park. As such, visitors do not require either a passport or visa to pass through their applicable border crossing so long as they stay within the boundaries of the park and leave the park into the country from which they entered the park "

Within the Arch itself are two statements.

"Children of a common mother."

"May these gates never be closed."

 

[Cristiano]

I freely admit, I don't want to go anywhere. It is a good thing I work from home and get everything delivered like some crazy hermit lol.

 

[Fionalein]

Currently I have no inclination whatsoever to visit the US.

 

[Free]

Currently I have no inclination whatsoever to visit the US.

Neither do I.

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Oh, wait a min...

 

[Cindy Claveau]

Currently I have no inclination whatsoever to visit the US.

Got a basement with some room?

 

[Innula Zenovka]

His only 'crime' is being Venezuelan and having tattoos, says brother of man 'thrown to the lions' in El Salvador jail

Nelson Suarez learned his brother Arturo is - most likely - in a notorious El Salvador jail only because of a photograph he spotted on a news website of a group of inmates, with their hands and feet cuffed, heads shaved and bodies shackled together.

news.sky.com

 

[Isabeau]

Just got a text. My brother and sil have just returned to Canada (BC border) a few months early. My brother was having anxiety issues, and my sil, even though she now has citizenship, she’s from France and was working long distance from her computer (editing) and also all the paperwork and changes to visas and such… anyway, they’re back. Yay!


Here she is at the border (I don’t think she’ll mind me sharing). She said that when they mentioned how glad and relieved they were to be back home (Canada) the agent said that everyone was saying the same thing.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Link to Guardian article

 

[Sid]

Yup tourist industry will be booming in the USA the next couple of years.
"Now all trips from abroad with possible free unplanned excursions to certain places where one normally never gets!"

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Yup tourist industry will be booming in the USA the next couple of years.
"Now all trips from abroad with possible free unplanned excursions to certain places one normally never gets!"

It really makes me sad that at this point I'd strongly discourage any foreign friends from coming here. We have NOTHING worth the risk.

 

[Imnotgoing Sideways]

Each time I see the title of this thread, I start hearing DMX rapping "ICE gon' give it to ya..."

 

[Noodles]

Yup tourist industry will be booming in the USA the next couple of years.
"Now all trips from abroad with possible free unplanned excursions to certain places where one normally never gets!"

Literally Buy One Get One on Vacations.

I see this as an absolute win!

 

[Innula Zenovka]

British man's tattoo wrongly linked to Venezuelan gang in US government document

A tattoo belonging to a man from Derbyshire has appeared in a US government document used to identify members of Tren de Aragua, a notorious Venezuelan gang, despite the man having no connection to the group.

www.bbc.co.uk

A tattoo belonging to a man from Derbyshire has appeared in a US government document used to identify members of a notorious Venezuelan gang - despite the man having no connection to the group.

Pete Belton, 44, from Ilkeston says he was shocked to find his forearm featured in a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) document used to help identify alleged members of Tren de Aragua (TdA), a transnational criminal organisation.

"I'm just an average middle-aged man from Derbyshire," he told BBC Verify.

Mr Belton said it was a "bit strange, bit funny at first" but is now worried the family trip he booked to Miami with his wife and daughter in August might end up "being a six month all-inclusive holiday to Guantanamo".

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Back in the 80s a lot of consultants made money telling local police that punks could be identified as gang members based on the band logos on the back of their jackets. I always hoped my Art of Noise jacket confused the hell out of them, not to mention my Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians vest.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Yeah I don't feel like this is just ignorant fuddy-duddies panicking about young people with tattoos and assuming they're all gang related; I'm pretty sure this is a fully conscious and intentional lie by DHS in order to set up any tattoos whatsoever as grounds to expel any non-white immigrant as a "gang member".

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Link to Guardian article