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[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

when things actually start happening.

gestures broadly

Things like American citizens being deported to foreign prisons when they have not committed a crime?
Travellers with legal visas at the border being imprisoned and tortured instead of just turned away?
Private citizen data being stolen from government facilities while federal employees are illegally terminated from their jobs?
States being threatened with loss of funding until the King gets a personal apology up to his standards?

What things are you waiting for?

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago

is there actually evidence of them being tortured?

Illegally detained sure. The worst thing that's happening right now is the deportation stuff, but we've done this before, multiple times. Notably with the japanese.

It's not good, don't get me wrong, but we've done it before, and came back from it once. All of this shit is also being challenged by the judicial branch, whenever it gets off of its ass that is.

most of these things haven't gone through fully, or are being immediately responded to with lawsuits. USAID for example. Immediately overturned in court.

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

Eagles said the detainees at the San Luis facility have no sleeping mats or blankets or windows, and the lights are on all day and night.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/canadian-detained-us-border-1.7483021

Now we could quibble about the degree of torture, but then we would be arguing about how much torture is acceptable for someone who had a visa, a job in the US, and was apprehended at the border instead of just denied entry.

And again I ask, what specific things need to happen before people will start doing something about it?

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago

i'm not sure that's necessarily torture, inhumane conditions for sure.

The worst one in that case is lights being on 24/7 and no sleeping arrangements. But it's also not clear how long people are being held either.

Speaking to CBC News earlier Thursday, Jasmine's mother, Alexis Eagles, said her daughter — who grew up in Yukon and had been living in B.C. until last year — was being detained at the San Luis Regional Detention Center after she recently tried to enter the U.S. from Mexico.

she's canadian, visiting canada, and entered the US through mexico? Ok, so it looks like she tried to enter at the canadian border, her visa was revoked, she tried to then enter through the mexican border for some reason, after having her visa already revoked. Seems questionable and like a stupid decision to me, and even her mother seems to agree with that.

and was apprehended at the border instead of just denied entry.

i would assume that revoking a visa, is a denial of entry, especially since this literally happened at the canadian border, so maybe you want to read up a little bit on that one again.

And again I ask, what specific things need to happen before people will start doing something about it?

i don't know, good question, it's the hard question to answer here. The judicial branch has already done something about it. It's definitionally illegal, it's just a matter of it being escalated to the scotus, and hoping they side with the law.

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