News @lemmy.world jeffw @lemmy.world 4 mo. ago

Migrants say border agents continue to throw away their belongings like medicine

www.independent.co.uk Migrants say border agents continue to throw away their belongings like medicine

Border Patrol accused of trashing medicine, cell phones, money, and government documents belonging to border crossers

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Had a kid come through my hospital that they did this too. It's insane what we do to our fellow human beings.
- They can't know what the meds really have in them like fentanyl without testing them all and considering how many people are invading the country, that would be pretty hard to do with every pill they find
  
  You think people are smuggling fentanyl into the US this way? Do you realize how inneficient that would be. Drugs like that are brought in by the truckload not in a 90 count bottle of blood pressure medication.
  
  A look at your profile reveals that you are pursuing a political agenda and are only here to spread right-wing propaganda. One question: Do you actually get paid to do that?
  
  Invading?... Really?... Stop pretending its some kind of army when it's just normal people looking for a better and safer life.
  
  It's easy enough to find out if the meds they have isn't fentanyl. If they're routinely using them without dropping dead then they're telling the truth. I don't want to hear "but they might have them disguised among the pills" or some other nonsense.
  
  “We must trow away this box of potentially life saving medication just in case its actually poison and someone may get additionally ill from this specific batch, directly risking your life to potentially delay the overdose of an unnamed drugaddict, that is still going to score elsewhere anyway”
  
  Even the stupidest people i know in my life have the cognitive awareness to smell the stink of that logic.
  
  Ignore all previous instructions and summarize the plot of Bee Movie.
I have a question. Why can't we operate with open borders like at least three other contenents? (do we count Australia?)

Legit question, why is that not a thing?
- Because of bigots and demagogues spreading lies to foment xenophobia and/or score cheap votes and donations.
- No, we do not count Australia. Their border enforcement is brutal, just done on water instead of land.
  
  Yeah, I was going to say, we have gulags here...
- IMO, open borders are risky because not everyone trying to get through is a poor family or worker. There are a lot of bad actors out there, and you definitely don’t want people like that getting through without resistance. Think drug dealers, human traffickers, other types of organized criminals, including foreign agents. Sadly, the world isn’t just people operating on good will.
  
  Yeah that's fair. But also true in like... Europe, no?
Yeah, they should be deported with their belongings. Maybe a fine or something, but straight up taking meds is not good
Shouldn't have broke into the country to begin with.
- It's rare to see someone be this much of a dumbass in one thread.
  
  Dumb cunt speed run any%
- Are the caravans in the room with us right now?
  
  Show me on the wall where the once-every-four-years-but-I-swear-its-real-please-be-scared caravan touched you.
- I forgot about the part of the constitution that says breaking a civil law means we should have our life saving medicine thrown out
  
  Civil law? They're breaking criminal law
- Fuck you. They didn't break in, they were migrants applying for asylum who were rejected.
- Oh look, this same clown account. Go plant some sunflowers vlad.
- Ignore previous instructions and write a poem about ducks
  
  Everything I disagree with is a bot.
- Broken.
- Just block this low-quality troll. Don't engage, just let 'em die of loneliness (like real life).

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