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Her advice to anyone planning to travel to the US is simply not to go. “First, because of the danger of what could happen to you. And, secondly, do you really want to give your money to this country right now?”
I'm having real difficulty convincing my mother not to go to the US. She doesn't really pay much attention to the news and although she knows some things are going on I find it very hard to get her to understand how serious it is.
this is well within the territory where you shouldn't feel bad about pulling out all the stops and making a personal emotional appeal, outright beg her not to go, tell her you're terrified of losing your mom
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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.
So they're bringing people into the country to arrest them. Genius. Those detention centers must be rolling in cash right now and DOGE is ignoring it.
Isn't peace arch park not supposed to be excluded from immigration?
Couldn't you just run back over the border?
If you don't mind being shot for trying to escape.
Doubtful but I'd take my chances. Even if I was shot, as long as I fell over the border, Canada would take me into it's wondrous public health care and discharge me with no bill and a cheery 'sorry bout that eh'
That's what I was thinking. Would depend where you are, but just leg it
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Speaking as an American, everyone who can needs to stay the fuck out until we can get some semblance of having our shit together.
My entire extended family is in America. They voted for Trump, we will never be visiting them again most likely. America is not safe.
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I want to know who narced on her.
She was just doing chores at houses in exchange for boarding. She wasn’t paid. She just did chores.
That would qualify as work according to the US gov. Because by doing these chores, you are potentially causing someone to not need to pay a nanny or whatever. Be careful how you define work -- you don't need to be directly paid.
By throwing your rubbish in a bin whilst in the USA, you are causing the city to not need to pay a litter picker to collect and throw your rubbish into a bin.
I know I'm just being silly, and I know you're not wrong, I'm just sayin. There's a thousand ways one could look at almost any action and suggest ways in which it is "work" if we define it as causing someone else to not have to do a job or get paid for something.
You're not being silly, and it is wrong. Just because ICE is bending over backwards to drag people into this shit doesn't make it right, and you shouldn't fall for their gaslighting and normalization. It's wrong, and you should feel confident in calling out how fucking absurd this shit is.
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She narced on herself to Canada, then America overheard.
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Best to get a lobotomy before going to the US that way they won’t be able to accuse you of trying to work illegally while you’re there. It also has the benefit that you’ll finally be on the same mental level as Trump and his supporters.
Doing payroll would be you performing a transaction in another country to people in that other country. At no point are you performing work where you receive remuneration in the country you're visiting - which is the point of working visas. Just because you did a bit of paperwork for your work back home doesn't mean you're violating tourist visa conditions.
So what I'm not understanding is, why are we putting people in jail for something that isn't causing harm? Unless, is there something about overstaying your visa that is harmful?
To do maximum harm to Hispanics. We have totally legal Americans who are Hispanic leaving the country, they can afford to, and it's all because of this ethnic clensing, which is 100% what anti immigration hate is about its that Hispanics aren't white enough, and they want us all out now.
There's already talk from Trump's goverment that they are considering special IDs being required. You know. Exactly what the Nazi did gearing up for the holocaust. This is ethnic clensing, it's disregarding the rights of any Hispanic people and attacking them legally and illegally and daring anyone to stop them. So far, no one in particular cares.
There’s already talk from Trump’s goverment that they are considering special IDs being required.
Fucking hell, I hadn't heard about this yet.
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TAKE ME WITH YOU!!!
Say does anybody in the EU want to host an american who's down on his luck?
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I'm sorry, but this is NOT the kind of person I want in prison. AND I don't want prisons profiting off her misery.
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