As my moniker says, I’m a US citizen living in Canada as a permanent resident. But, as I’m also a US military veteran, since I’ve moved here, I’ve travelled an hour or so monthly, to cross over to a VA clinic for ongoing treatment of various medical conditions. No more.
This is unacceptable. this is a regime of incel men who feel powerless & therefore take their rage out on people making them feel helpless. It is illegal not that it matters to these men "in charge". The whole thing is beyond disgusting.
MAGA🇺🇸 is becoming little 🇷🇺 at the hands of the ugliest men
This is why allowing any private prisons or jails or detention centers is a terrible idea. It becomes a self perpetuating horror show as there's more and more money at stake.
I've thought that for a long time. The financial incentives point toward horrific human rights abuses, and the money lets the companies buy ever more draconian policies.
I'm so sorry for what you went through. It's inexcusable. Nobody should have to go through that, especially when they haven't done anything wrong. I guess Canadians should no longer enter the US to guarantee their safety. Who would have thought we'd be here in 2025.
Having served as an advocate/ombudsman in a state department of corrections, I will tell you that most people who work in jails and prisons and detention centers think nothing of people languishing behind bars needlessly as days tick away. Callousness infects all staff, including healthcare staff.
Being paid to look the other way and reserve compassion makes it a bit easier. No way those guards are even talking to the detainees to learn about their stories. Probably the worst day was first day at work and it gets easier each following pay day.
Can't ANYONE in the current US administration see how fucking awful the US is looking right now? Despite decades of appalling governance across the pond, this administration is making all previous ones appear positively angelic!
They'd have to have the ability to see things from others' point of view. They don't have that. As a citizen watching this, increasingly it looks to me that the US really needs to burn to the ground & something else emerge in the geo space. A very weak system of norms won't work with evil monsters.
I agree. The American Dream - which, to be fair, was always something of an illusion - is now dead as the dodo. What do most Americans now have to feel truly optimistic about? Their nation has succumbed to virulent, cruel oligarchy, forever wars and terminal, catastrophic imperial decline.
Yep, very well said. Oh & I'd add the increase in disease, poor health & untimely death for most people due to a sadistic government that wants to cull the peasants & thinks our health is a waste of their money.
Spot on! There is no end to the perfidity of the predator-parasite class; otherwise known as the 'ruling elite'. I've been against capital punishment all my life, but I'd no longer try to intercede if the mob finally came for the 1% with pitchforks and guillotines.
Democrats like AOC & Pete Buttigieg have the opportunity to make some great speeches here. MLK level speeches. One of the few good ones should gather a huge protest, give some inspiring speeches, get a lot of media coverage, etc. We need that I think. No one is standing up in a public way.
It is really galling that Musk is getting $8M a day!!! of our money. Who the hell would be okay with that or all the gift $ he got before that -- for the government that he is now destroying for the ppl it belongs to. People are not speaking enough about the irony of that. @aoc.bsky.social should
All conservatives want is to enslave out-groups so they can profit. Monetize our suffering, pay slave wages. Debase us. There has never been and there will never be a decent future with conservatives in power. Just look throughout history: when conservatives rule misery flourishes. Innate sadists
I think a key point too is that WE ARE PAYING FOR THIS. These for-profit prisons built a bureaucratic hellhole to disappear because the longer they’re held, the more taxpayer money they get. Even if you don’t care about the sickening cruelty, at least care that it’s literally taking money from you.
It is stunning that some random person can spark this chain of events just by thinking things look “shady.” No due process, no representation. Everything we have been taught about Americans being the “good guys” is a lie.
Check the backgrounds of these two private businesses, CoreCivic and Geo Group that act as detention guards for ICE. Each had earned several hundred millions dollar contracts from ICE. Who are their major shareholders and how these contracts are awarded? Did DOGE get a share?
It's not,though. She tried to skirt the visa system by entering through Mexico. The millions of asylum seeking migrants get this treatment daily. Tell the stories of the illegally held migrants, not some privileged white lady from Canada who didn't believe the rules applied the same way to her.
Neither she nor the women she met in detention deserved to be treated in the way they were. I agree that the stories of the other migrants are much more heart-wrenching than hers; but the treatment is cruel barbarism. Chains, fluorescent lights, cold cells, pat-downs, separation from children. Awful
With a bunch of rapists, alcoholics and criminals running that country this is what you get. Plus the mass shootings - Americans love their machine guns.
I read your article of being illegally detained. Of the other women who were detained with you.
By all that is Holy, everyone associated with these abductions WILL pay. If not now, at times end. 🙏
From my understanding based on her own account and the event time. She asked to be released and was denied, and detained. Then two weeks she was detained, even with people on the outside asking for her release. Two weeks is excessive detainment and therefore is cruel and unusual punishment.
This is a bit longer read, but you need to read it in its entirety. For this person (or any person) to be treated this way and without due process (by no stretch of the imagination are they "enemy combatants" plus we are not at war). I, as an American who has not drunk the Kool Aid, feel so ashamed.
I’m so ashamed of my country for treating any human being this way. I am so sorry! Thank you for your story. I’m sharing it and hoping others will wake up to what our government is doing and how wrong this is. Also read the story about Mervin Yamarte who was “deported” to El Salvador.
Just like American icon Pres. Wilson did to mothers who protested entry into WW1 meat grinders. Woodrow was 10 times the oversexed groper Trump is. Woody had them dragged from their homes, threw them in cold cells where they died. Like Trump, fired gov't black workers & gutted civil service. Routine
Yeah, "finding god" seems like a smoke screen to misdirect. It's interesting that she uses "San Diego border" vis "Mexican border." And this all took place in only two weeks? How is everything freezing in CA and AZ? A/C? When I lived in Germany, I carried my passport at all times. Just saying.
Stop calling it Kidnapping!!! It's RENDITIONING!!!!!! There's a difference. Kidnapping is usually for money or retaliation by individuals. RENDITIONING is when Governments disappear people that they find undesirable. Call it what it is!!!!!🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Everything that trump and holman and their Nazi brigade are doing to the innocent people will come full circle and it will… will be nasty…you will not be in office forever…sad thing people notice…
Because she was kidnapped. Despicable Nazi shit doled out by undertrained maga goons. Shameful and frightening. The dumbest and most brutish of all of us are the most likely to rise in favor by doing whatever is asked, no matter how atrocious. And they’ll make shit up too, recall Abu Graib prison.
Just read the interview. THAT WAS INSANE! These private, for profit prison/jail/detaining systems are 100% UNCONSTITUTIONAL!! They completely have ZERO oversight, they have ZERO accountability to the treatment of ANY of the detainees, & profit in MILLIONS of dollars in human suffering. This is DOGE
This is yet another example of why privatization is not good for government. It costs voters more money, and they is 0 accountability for clear violations to peoples rights.
Honestly longer. If you follow back various roots of GEO Group as an example, some acquired businesses started private prisons as far back as the early 80s at the state and federal level. US Immigration was the first fed agency to use them.
I just can’t believe it. All of it - the utter disregard, and refusal to see someone as a person. I’m a History teacher and surely, surely people know better. We have seen this before and know how it can end.
Why are you still doing it?!
This whole story is a big red flag. A grifter got stopped grifting and is now grifting off it. Why the fuck are the lefty grifters all the same. We need more working class representation.
So they put an influencing grifter in prison for quotas? Thats a bigger story than what really happened. Likely a paperwork error led to a brief incarceration and questioning which has been turned into a Netflix series. Be better. The left is infiltrated by grifting establishment cunts.
They're already grabbing people who have Permanent Residency (green cards). It's only one more step up to denaturalizing people who became citizens. And that's before we even get to the fact they've already grabbed citizens already "by mistake." This country is lost.
No, that is the same woman.
She didn’t have a valid temporary work visa and in the article, that she wrote, it says that she wanted to build a life in California.
That requires more than just a temporary work visa.
They were fair to her considering the circumstances.
"I was in an immigration office talking to an officer about my work visa, which had been approved months before and allowed me, a Canadian, to work in the US."
Why didn’t she go through the US consulate in Vancouver Canada to renew her visa status to the US?
Applying for a visa isn’t done at the US / Mexico border checkpoint as you’re stopped to present your papers.
She says that her temporary work visa was approved but is wasn’t actually valid when she tried to make entry at the US / Mexico border crossing.
She also states in that very article that she was trying to build a life in California. A temporary visa doesn’t allow that.
Agreed, Todd. I'm grateful to the many Americans who have announced their plans to vacation in Canada, but if they're driving, I worry not every Canadian will treat them or their car kindly. They'll need anti-Trump bumper stickers or something, but may get hassled at the border when returning home.
In Europe, sure. Young travellers have been doing that for decades. But if American visitors drive across the Canada-US border, they can't disguise their license plate.
There's a lot more than a little disapproval up here! Many of us have our eyes wide open and fully expect your asshole president, with your drunken rapist defence secretary and your dumb MAGA military to invade our country. Many of us, me included won't hesitate to...😶... It involves triggers.
Yes you're right increase the severity of the language here. What these phuckers are initiating leads to something disastrous. So yes, contempt for the policies is deserved.
The prison nurse, who took a job neglecting medical needs and covering up abuse, babbling about her god to ease her conscience because this one didn't look like an acceptable target for bigotry is painted in a way that makes me deeply uncomfortable here.
Omg this Administration has lost its mind, she is not the only one...this country ought to be ashamed along with #Trump voters who agree with all of this until their families and friends are affected
Had ICE looked the other way and not followed the law, Democrats would be pointing out that a white woman got away with breaking the law.
She was here on an expired temporary work visa and she left the country into Mexico
She was entering through the US / Mexico border and Mexico now has a policy where non Mexican citizens can’t be returned to Mexico.
This means that ICE has to detain them until transport to their home country is arranged.
If they fight the deportation, they are detained longer.
She was returned home
That means they’d have to take her word for it and release her into the US from the US / Mexico border.
You can’t fly from the border checkpoint.
That would be giving her special treatment that isn’t afforded others from a border point of entry.
theyre training the deportation workers to get used to dehumanizing people so that when they send pelosi and and other americans that speak against turmp through the camps no one will speak against it.
First they wrongly came for brown AMERICAN CITIZENS with Latin American roots & we said meh, then they wrongly came for a white Canadian woman & we're up in arms.
Both are wrong. Both should bring outrage.
Deported a child with brain cancer, & many others 🤬
From Canada’s point of view this is a direct attack on a Canadian. You take care of your own country, we’re busy fighting the annexation threat and the daily assaults on Canada. BTW, we aren’t suppressing the coverage of your vile and despicable government in Canada. We know all about your SS troups
It sounds like they applied the law fairly.
Think of what leftists would have said had they overlooked her expired temporary work visa and allowed her entry to the US from Mexico.
It’s a good thing that ICE has followed the procedures and treated her fairly
This is a Canadian citizen and we have to read her story on The Guardian? I love The Guardian, but why are Canadian media not first up with this? Chicken-shit editors afraid of annoying the nasty neighbours? God help us all.
Private prisons and the profit motive need more bodies to put in them. Detaining foreigners is one money maker. In the USA we had the "Cash for Kids" scandal where a judge who had an interest in the private prison packed off juveniles to fill it and profit from it. Conflict of interest? No longer
The Guardian does not have pay walls. They ask you to donate, but you can just close the request and read at your will. But, truthfully, it is a one of the best publications out there if you want truth. So, I donate, but you do not have to in order to read their articles.
I was able to access the Guardian through its website and other social media outlets, it was just through BlueSky I was having the issue. Thanks for the helpful info about the paywall. I wouldn’t have checked anywhere else under that assumption.
No limit. I mean I have been reading The Guardian for years and never had a limit. I just donated for the first time a few weeks ago, since I have dropped WaPo, and stopped watching or listening to any mainstream media news.
Good to know. Maybe there is something going on with my phone or something. I tried after my response and it still will not let me read it. I too have dropped WaPo and NYT. Been relying more on substack. But I’ll keep trying on the Guardian. Maybe on their site.
Good to know. Maybe there is something going on with my phone or something. I tried after my response and it still will not let me read it. I too have dropped WaPo and NYT. Been relying more on substack. But I’ll keep trying on the Guardian. Maybe on their site.
No it isn't. It has Starmerroid fans like Toynbee & all the other political writers who did a total fucking number on Corbyn and the Left on the basis of a dirty lie about antisemitism. Guardian is part of the problem that gave us this extremist Blue Labour, war crime-apologist government
We are in the US. I am aware of the publication’s bias in the UK. But here, it isn’t as bad as far as political coverage on our federal level. I was just not able to read the through BlueSky. Which is what we were really talking about.
Cool. I'm just here to counter efforts to label the guardian unbiased. It has some decent writers but editorially & politically it is anti Left & was a big part of the antidemocratic attack on the Left from 2015-19. They helped exclude the left from UK party political representation.
Okay, our perspectives are different since I am viewing the Guardian’s reporting of all the issues in American politics, which appear objective. Sadly, it is an overwhelming shitshow over here. I can’t keep up as we sink toward fascism. So, I don’t know all that much about the politics of GB 🫣
Maybe now we can start acting like human being’s and not Rabid dog’s looking for anything they can chew on. I’m so sorry you had to experience such inhumanity but you have brought Light to this matter and now Canada need’s to arrest the TRump’s & Musk for interfering with your country’s affair’s.
When a political leader in UK stood up against this he was taken down by the neoliberal centrists with a lot of help from the Guardian. UK is now wall-to-wall corporate tory shit.
Katharine Viner, the editor in chief of the guardian regularly stifles reporting about Palestine in favour of Israeli propaganda. She is no better than Trump.
After reading the story, it made you realize that there is lots of human scum out there "just following orders" from this shithole administration and the shithole called ICE.
Fuck those nazi style officers cracking jokes. They all deserved a swift kick in their pussies.
I'm sorry she went through this, and I realize she understands that she received special treatment, but "God" didn't do this. MEN did.
And, fucking eat what your sisters are having.
Appalling. If we exterminated the nazi trash who've stolen control of our society, we'd have plenty of room for honest, hard working immigrants trying to start a new life. Ijs.
If ICE will black bag a white woman off the street then they will have no problem doing it to anybody. I would avoid our country for a bit. It's about to pop like a nitroglycerin bubble.
"I would avoid our Country for a bit." ~~ How's forever sound?! If the US can slip into this level of barbarism in just a couple of months, it's a Country I NEVER want to visit or support in any way EVER fucking again.
Been happening for years and years, not months. Also, falling into the trap of authoritarianism can happen in any country, unfortunately. Similar to how almost anyone can become vulnerable to a cult, even when they are adamant that it couldn’t happen to them or “couldn’t happen here.”
It has NEVER been as bad as this in my entire life. AND while it CAN happen in any country, you don't have to look too far to see that people around the World are fighting back & rejecting fascism. South Korea, Syria, Hungary, etc. have ALL had major revolts. The US seems to have given up!
Oh it's been more than a couple of months. People have been warning about this since Regan and Bush the first. But I fully understand if you don't want to come here. It's going to be a bit rough for a while.
It’s a sickening realization - this isn’t new. The for-profit prison system…does what for-profit does: increases profits. At the cost of lives. Trump admin’s cruelty just accelerates it.
The US is paying the receiving countries of deportees to continue to house them. They've sent Venezuelans to El Salvador because Venezuela isn't accepting deportees. The supposed gang members (I call bullshit) will remain jailed even after deportation. It's disgusting.
I agree with everything you've said Christine, with ONE minor exception, that's NOT Jail they were sent to, it's fucking HELL on Earth & who knows who has been sent. They were sent off with NO due process, hell, lucky if their names will EVER be known. Those poor souls may just be "disappeared"!
Yeah, I know in the mighty ole USofA they have housed undeserving people in jails for unrealistic periods of time for even minor offences, like having a fucking joint on you! Anyway, now, they've UPPED their game & are sending undeserving citizens of OTHER nations without just cause. It's barbarism.
THIS is the worst decline I've ever seen. There is an INSANE Madman at the Helm whose kink truly seems to be CRUELTY & then combined with his grotesque greed & lust for power is a recipe for disaster. He has ensured that ALL LONG time ALLIED Nations have lost trust & respect for the US.
It's funny but I can't tell if you're talking about trump or Musk. But cruelty is always the point for conservative Christians. Always has been. Now they run the government, so cruelty becomes conservative policy. Remember their motto "Those who don't work shall not eat". It's a shitshow for sure.
You're right those MF'ers belong in the same category for everything. Two poisonous peas in a pod. AND their motto goes out the fucking window with the overwhelming majority of the Migrant Workers. They do the back-breaking work Americans can't/won't do & for little pay & ZERO respect! US NEEDS them
Not sure where you're from, but trust me when I say this DID NOT happen to my country in just a "few months". This has been a long slow war beginning at least 15 yrs ago...AT LEAST. This has been an invasion which most of us did not see coming. I hope other countries are watching & learning.
Wow! Forget moving to or working in the U.S., not that it was on my radar... but I am terrified to ever vacation there again! It's like those old movies about WWII Germany, "Vhere are you papers" & "Ve have vays of making you talk"
Undoubtedly. That is what troubles Canada the most. With 350M people you could make quite an impact even with a general strike. Realize that collectivism is not widely known there due to rugged individualism BS but "workers control the means of production" is a simple notion.
Adding on: it only takes one person standing up for the right thing to get others to follow suit. People are scared of being singled out and facing consequences alone, so when one of us puts ourselves out there, it helps others find their moral courage
Our whole prison system is like this-go visit. I have spent many hours visiting people in prison. It is the most dehumanizing experience I've ever had, just as a visitor, & for inmates, of course, it's much worse. They're fed moldy food, denied needed medical for years & more,for profit,in our name.
This. Almost everyone around me says “I don’t see anything like that on the TV news, so it can’t be happening”. How to argue with these people? They will not open their eyes, ears or brains
Ever since they uttered the words “liberal media” it has been aligned with the Republican Party
Forcing the media to slant right
Or “both sides” it
Decades of psychological warfare against the American people
What do you want them to say?
A Canadian woman tried to enter the USA with an expired temporary work visa and was denied entry at the US / Mexico border and returned home to Canada?
It bothers me this is suddenly an issue because it happens to white women from Canada, Europe, etc. It's clear from the article this "machine" has been in operation long before Jan 20th and was utilized against people by the Biden administration just as much.
It’s happened under EVERY single administration. The difference is the public spectacle and humiliation this administration is subjecting people to is on another level.
We kind of got that message a while back. Apart from the dangers of flying into US air space now under the control, or lack of it, of Trump’s lunatics, there is the possibility of being arrested for thought crime or maybe just speaking out of turn to a stranger. Nazi Germany vibes.
I always believed Garland got the AG job because of McConnell’s horseshit in ‘15-‘16 over no SCOTUS confirmation hearings. In retrospect he really would have fit right in with the conservative wing. This was Biden’s big mistake IMO. We needed a pitbull AG but got one who had 2 speeds, 0 and stop.
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So sorry our country treated you so badly
MAGA🇺🇸 is becoming little 🇷🇺 at the hands of the ugliest men
This is just another instance of oligarchs overreaching and abusing people. It’s a pattern that should be core to the Democrats’ messaging.
Spot on! There is no end to the perfidity of the predator-parasite class; otherwise known as the 'ruling elite'. I've been against capital punishment all my life, but I'd no longer try to intercede if the mob finally came for the 1% with pitchforks and guillotines.
Google "kids in cages" & deportation stats.
Here are a couple to get started.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2016/08/31/u-s-immigrant-deportations-declined-in-2014-but-remain-near-record-high/
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c36e41dx425o
We need #immigrationreform & deprivatize detention facilities‼️🤬
May the Trump regime's demise be swift and certain.
MAGA = Make America Gestapo Again
thanks to MTG's gazpacho police
Bigger = flipping condos, managing Airbnbs, and peddling homeopathic mushroom drinks? Lol.
By all that is Holy, everyone associated with these abductions WILL pay. If not now, at times end. 🙏
You are back home? 🙏
They will hold them all for absolutely as long as possible in legal limbo, because they make more money the more people the imprison.
She was held while her attorneys did some legal wrangling to clear up her temporary work visa.
She was sent home to Canada
“The more detainees, the more money they make. It stands to reason that these companies have no incentive to release people quickly.”
Arrested people have constitutional rights.
My deepest sorrow for your suffering at the hands of my deranged government.
We are fighting like Hell to change these obcenities.
Know I keep you close.
Oups sorry, my cynicism has taken over 😒
Interesting
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/human-rights-tribunal-peel-police-girl-handcuffed-1.5483456
And this isn't even the tip of the iceberg.
The worst is yet to come!
Why are you still doing it?!
Wouldn't you rather your tax dollars pay for actual criminals to be jailed?
Either you didn't read the story or you don't know what "grift" means.
And what country will welcome Americans when we treat their people this way?
He’s turning us into pariahs.
Just like the world has treated genocidal Israeli's and Russians, the same will be done with USians.
They have to take the power back, or else this will continue to get worse.
What should have they done?
She didn’t have a valid temporary work visa and in the article, that she wrote, it says that she wanted to build a life in California.
That requires more than just a temporary work visa.
They were fair to her considering the circumstances.
Applying for a visa isn’t done at the US / Mexico border checkpoint as you’re stopped to present your papers.
She also states in that very article that she was trying to build a life in California. A temporary visa doesn’t allow that.
These wolves in sheep’s clothing hide behind religion, backed by endless 💲, playing by no rules.
Christopher Hitchens wasn’t joking about fascist theocracy. Frank Zappa said it, too! Many wouldn't listen.
Read & share widely.
TY
Please share please print and hand out! Please do NOT ever go silently.
SPEAK AT ALL MOMENTS!
✊🏼
Should they have allowed her in despite that?
She was here on an expired temporary work visa and she left the country into Mexico
This means that ICE has to detain them until transport to their home country is arranged.
If they fight the deportation, they are detained longer.
She was returned home
You can’t fly from the border checkpoint.
That would be giving her special treatment that isn’t afforded others from a border point of entry.
Both are wrong. Both should bring outrage.
Deported a child with brain cancer, & many others 🤬
https://www.txcivilrights.org/post/press-release-u-s-citizen-children-deported-alongside-undocumented-parents-despite-critical-medic
My comment has everything to do with the the imbalance of outrage Americans feel. We've gotten too accepting of deportations of any kind.
Think of what leftists would have said had they overlooked her expired temporary work visa and allowed her entry to the US from Mexico.
It’s a good thing that ICE has followed the procedures and treated her fairly
How can the rapist freak even risk it.
He’ll eventually be labeled a War Criminal by The ICC like his boss putin.
Nah… the rapist will slither down to his Florida sex spa to die… alone and hated by clean folks
Any wonder many of us won’t set foot inside the US now—and for the foreseeable future?
Any wonder so many of us are boycotting—whenever possible—US products?
Y’all need to clean up this mess you collectively created.
https://youtu.be/DujyJ1EDft8?si=E1oQftLSilLSpT3N
#cdnpoli
Independent media is our only truth!!
Here's a CBC story from last week:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/canadian-detained-us-border-1.7483021
Do not go to the USA for any reason!!!
Good Americans apologize for the crazies who are killing our once wonderful country. 😓
So glad you were able to get back to Canada ❤️
https://novaramedia.com/2024/03/12/how-the-guardians-editor-in-chief-caved-to-pro-israel-pressure/
The lobbyists and businesses have bought the government and police.
Fuck those nazi style officers cracking jokes. They all deserved a swift kick in their pussies.
And, fucking eat what your sisters are having.
Never thought I ever would say that.
But it's not just him.
It's the US as a construct. The entire nation needs to be scrapped and start over, tbf.
They didn’t listen…😏
Forcing the media to slant right
Or “both sides” it
Decades of psychological warfare against the American people
A Canadian woman tried to enter the USA with an expired temporary work visa and was denied entry at the US / Mexico border and returned home to Canada?
I’m grateful for her, though, because through her, we are getting a glimpse into these horrible prisons and this corrupt system.
= His inept business idiocy has now ICED that industry as well (to the tune of BILLIONS of $$$$):
https://openjaw.com/newsroom/tourism/2025/03/19/canadian-drop-off-is-astronomical-us-tour-association-says/
And rightfully so, as far as I can see...
Y'all need to just cancel everything for now. We're a dictatorship where anything can happen. And ICE is not giving a shit
Should have fired his ass the first 6 months he didn't do anything and replace him with Sally Yates.
But Biden likes to keep around the rot cuz that probably means "healing" to him. Like he kept Federalist Society Christopher Wray.
I have no faith in the Democrats.
They're enablers.
https://bsky.app/profile/eckerleisabella.bsky.social/post/3lkppv3qlbk2u