"I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre."
I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre
The whole thing is so horrifying, but this stuck out to me
Rosa, a Mexican woman who spoke barely any English and had already been detained for 11 months
I wonder who was in charge 11 months ago
Headline reads like "actual white person hurt for once: you guys should start caring now".
Dystopia is when oppression on non white people happens to white people.
Fascism's truly most horrific aspect is the historic colonizer being treated as colonized.
/s
Hey, I just came up with this cool idea for alternate WWII history: what if America was invaded and overtaken by a horde of greedy white supremacists bent on conquest and extermination?
The following is like something out of a dystopian comedy. "Oh, you have your foot in the US. I'm going to arrest you as your husband watches helplessly..."
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.
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Caption - emphasis mine.
By following the various markers, visitors follow the international border, even across the entry road. Park visitors need to keep an eye out for cars, but can otherwise wander on foot between the two countries.
Not anymore!
Nothing screams "freedom" like being in the crosshairs of some hypervigilant ICE psycho's rifle as he imagines pink-misting you and your husband for sightseeing.
It's like something out of a dystopian comedy.
when a US border official told her they had strayed into American territory without the right visa and took her into custody.
Just fucking shove that dork to the ground and run back into kanada
So this park/border is near where i used to live and the reason it's called "peace arch" is there's a literal arch with a gate that's left wide open. The inscription on the arch is "may these gates never close" as a symbol of the alliance between the US and Canada.
I used to think, as a kid, just weld it open.
The statement always read more like "please don't close the gate, America" when i got older.
To be honest - I somehow missed the oddity and symbolism and of people getting arrested at a peace arch. It was only after looking at a Bluesky comment that I thought to myself "How did I miss that???"
This whole story just reminds me of all the European/white people I know who are used to experiencing zero friction when traveling internationally. She said the word you must never say when you're on a tourist visa anywhere: work. Everyone I know who is a poc knows that, because we've been questioned harshly at every passport control.
The last line of the article is crazy, too. "If I had lied, I would be in Canada right now". I feel really shitty for her, and no one should go through what she went through, but at the same time goddamn when are white people gonna learn that you gotta keep your wits about you, especially when traveling internationally.
Remember to teach your kids when to lie.
Lying is not immoral, more and more people are saying it. My family looks at me funny when I tell them you NEED to lie on the internet
This is not purely coming from Trump. This is the mindset of the demons that work at ICE merely let loose by Trump.
Exactly, ICE was the fucking gestapo the moment it was created by
Breakfast – which for Becky was cold potato and a sachet of peanut butter, the only vegan option – was at 6am.
Lunch – black beans and more cold potato – was anytime between 11.30am and 2pm. Four times a day, inmates had to sit on their bunks for an hour so they could be counted by staff.
Dinner frequently arrived after 8pm
Wish they said what was in the dinners.
Damn, ICE is targeting white people now? Lmao
