Who are the owners and CEOs of for profit detention centers? Wyatt is “publicly owned, privately run” but does not identify who profits from that arrangement.
This is terrifying. I am seriously reconsidering a trip with my European partner to visit my elderly parents in the US this year (or ??). And thinking about what that may mean. 😞
You're not. That is the point. One of the hallmarks of dominionism is a fierce and ignorant sense of nationalism. These assholes think they're better than everyone else and can do whatever they want. At this point, they're being allowed to get away with it. If I were you, I'd stay away.
FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA PALESTINE WILL BE FREE. Palistine will live forever. EVERY HORRIBLE THING TRUMP IS DOING WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITHOUT THE COMPLETE BI PARTISAN COLABORATION OF THE ENTIRE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. It's a dictatorship of the rich. They all work for musk& co
this is getting a response level I'm unequipped to properly handle and it's outside my area of expertise so I'll defer to whatever AOC / Bernie / Walz tell us to do, use signal, boycott tesla, if you have forms of privilege try to find ways to use that to help and look out for other people who don't
Clearly any foreign passport holder needs to stay far away from this place if they can, but DHS is general is a horror show right now it makes me terrified to travel even as an American
My son's fiance, who hails from Japan, was visiting family in Atlanta & NJ after New Years & I begged him that she be outta the U.S. by Jan. 20th. - I was terrified that something like this would happen to her! Thankfully she left shortly after 1/20. Sadly tho, it looks like my fears were founded.😭
And I agree. But even knowing these guys are fucked enough to beleive there are reasons, I still have no idea why this would make sense in their heads.
ladies and gentlemen … this kind of stuff used to be what america invaded other countries to prevent. How many thousands lost their lives in the cause of “freedom”? The president who calls those people “losers” is now doing it to US citizens! What’s it going to take?
i mean, it's what america told people they were invading other countries to prevent as a cover story while we stole their resources. this isn't all too new. people are just freaked out cuz it's hurting white people now, too.
Genuinely surprised this is starting to affect white people in the US, to be honest, but holy cow I hope he and his family make it out of this alright.
Every story is absolutely horrific but we only hear the stories of Europeans or Canadians. White people. It makes me very worried for the amount of people of color that we hear nothing about and how they are treated.
I mean. I first heard about these illegal arrests when they took Mahmoud Khalil, that was kinda a big deal. Your concern is valid and probably sadly true, but in this instance we are hearing about people from outside canada and europe
Mahmoud Khalil was the first non European person I heard about. Maybe because I am from Europe and these cases get more attention here, but I do follow quite some US outlets and haven’t read much about specific cases.
For me he was the first period. Might have been europeans before that, but i don't think so. They tested with a palestinian, and when it worked they began to see where the line was. I don't know. But i am certain you are right that there are more of these we just don't know about
There’s a German woman, a tourist, in jail for 6 weeks now. Had a return ticket and visa, went to Mexico with the friend she was visiting and upon return was arrested bc ICE believes she wasn’t gonna leave. Even though her life is in Germany.
Third. There was the woman who was working as a tattoo artist while on a tourist visa, and the man who was staying in Las Vegas and went to Mexico for a day trip. When ICE asked him in English “where are you from” he answered “Vegas” because that was where he was staying.
I can't understand why they still want to go to the US. Everyone knows how much the people/government there are assholes and prejudiced against any other nationality. I hope the downfall of these bastards is near!
ICE has long attracted sadists and petty tyrants, and they've behaved this way with brown people for years. All that's happened is that Trump has given them the license to behave this way with anyone.
What is most shocking is that this is happening to white people. Are they trying to show that they aren't racist so they need a couple of white people to make examples of?
My take is they are showing our former allies that we are no longer allies. All the democratic countries that Trump hates because he wants us to be on Team authoritarianism/Russia now.
She worked in exchange for room and board. The company she used warned customers to be certain they had the proper visas. She had a tourist visa, which is why Canada blocked her. She had violated her visa while in the US, which is why when she returned to the US she was arrested.
Yeah, this should be sufficient reason to start filing lawsuits against ICE for wrongful detention and for unusual punishment, both of which are unconstitutional and against the Bill of Rights.
From what I’ve been hearing from other Germans, there might have been an official court hearing in 2022 that this person missed. I don’t think that excuses locking someone up without access to a lawyer, but it might make this case seem less arbitrary.
Thank you, I’ve been wondering what pretext they had. Not that it excuses any of this of course, but it’s an important distinction between there being absolutely no basis and a basis that is being misused
Absolutely understandable that they didn’t mention it! But helpful information for those of us who are trying to understand the level of risk for green-card holding partners
Like a hearing on an unrelated matter? BC once you have your green card, all you have to do is renew it in time, and why would you leave the US if your card had expired?
Quietly hoping that the fact that this occasionally hurts white people will convince white people to oppose it, but cynically worried that they'll just fight to do a better job at keeping this terrorism aimed at non-whites.
This is unacceptable, on many levels. Absolute barbarity/cruelty. The USA is run by thugs.
It makes no sense whatsoever to travel to the USA any longer.
speculating here but given use of AI to revoke visas of people perhaps some german citizens have firmer reasons than people from elsewhere to have been posting doubts about the dangerous clowns who took over the US government
hm that makes sense but as someone who lives in germany i highly doubt germans would be flagged any higher than any other nationality for defending hamas. quite the opposite, germany (and a big chunk of germans) support zionism unrestricted
Not sure if Germans are being targeted more than others, but Germany did reject Afd even after Musk and Vance endorsed the party. And apparently the US is trying to pressure Germany to reverse the ban on Russian oil and gas.
I've been through US immigration as a German. They do look at the passports and check the visa. A red passport (Germany/EU) is hard to confuse with a blue one (Guatemala). Even for someone unable to read.
And they're detaining people they could just deny entry to and send back. What is the point of this? The Canadian person that was detained is the most strange because you could just send them back over the border!
The point is that these are FOR PTOFIT detention centers. The owners of whom were big GOP donors. This is repayment for their support, and there is no incentive for them to facilitate the release of anyone.
Absolutely horrific. Could it be they are targeting Germans because they fear that those most familiar with the brand of fascism Trump and co. are copying will warn the general public?
I really feel sorry for all the foreigners living legally in the US. Not only could they not vote against it, but they certainly didn't imagine these problems when they decided to move to the US.
And now they have to worry about massive problems every time they leave and re-enter the country.
I had an unnecessarily unpleasant experience with airport immigration in 1999, just because I didn't understand 'where do you go now' meant 'where are you going now?' I was waiting for him to tell me where to go next!
That was pre-9/11.
Passport control seems to have gone completely rogue
As European l certainly will not go to the USA and l will discourage anyone to go even as a tourist or on business. American government hatred for foreigners is turning insane .
I used to be proud presenting my US passport while in Europe, now I am ashamed and embarrassed and stopped traveling. What an absolute shame… because of one insane, evil asshole!
It's similar to what's been going on at the UK border for EU travelers since Brexit. Hard to know if it's the general mood empowering little emperors working at the borders, or directives coming from above.
Regardless, only response possible is to end discretionary travel to avoid it entirely.
Yeah, things are getting insane. Not just discretionary travel, though... Some of these cases have been people in the US on business trips. And they are getting hauled around the country, deprived of due process, and even effectively tortured.
Right, I'm just saying this is putting corporations in a pretty weird spot. They direct someone to travel somewhere in the US and this happens. Imagine the legal liability! So they have to decide how real the threat is and if US business is still worth it.
Oh, absolutely. Eliminating non-discretionary business travel means the only travel happening is what the company deems absolutely necessary, and is willing to deal with the risks of.
To be fair I've had that feeling since 2016 or so, personally. Back then it was only a hunch tho. At least I'm glad to see my instincts were correct I guess.
One of my absolute favourites!😂 I'm also partial to Donald Drumpf (h/t John Oliver!), Cheeto McCheaterson, Burnt Sienna Shitler, Mango Mussolini, Predator-in-Chief and of course, the ever-popular *Harberder King*.😂😂😂
Australian here: my daughter is half American but you couldn't pay her enough to visit her father in DC, at least until this fit of national lunacy has ended.
As for me, I once lived in Chicago, loved it, and have travelled all over the country, but I don't ever intend entering the US again.
It's going to be interesting to see the tourism numbers next fall after the busy season is over. If I lived in a different country there's no way I'd visit this place.
I know of a number of non-Americans who are cancelling all trips, work and pleasure, to the US right now. Personally I will not be going anywhere near the place during this regime.
Absolutely. Even from the most heartless capitalist viewpoint, keeping people healthy keeps them productive - but it would be nice if happiness and comfort were prioritised over 'productivity'
Sure, let’s spit on the EU, that’s smart. This is gonna be the best time for foreign powers to attack the US, because I sure as shit wouldn’t help America in its current state.
Many years ago my Guyana/British passport friend “won” a “green card” for the US. She never took it & upon her next US visit was interrogated & held for hours. That was democracy then - now god forbid
ICE are under pressure to hit detention targets. It seems pretty obvious now that some officials are simply throwing random foreigners into the system so they hit their personal quotas.
Disgraceful, but under this regime hardly surprising.
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can you imagine what they're doing to brown people?!!!!!
Dictators depend on TERROR
It's unfortunate.
FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA PALESTINE WILL BE FREE. Palistine will live forever. EVERY HORRIBLE THING TRUMP IS DOING WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITHOUT THE COMPLETE BI PARTISAN COLABORATION OF THE ENTIRE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. It's a dictatorship of the rich. They all work for musk& co
And if you all haven't noticed ... he's a WHITE MALE!
NO ONE IS SAFE FROM FASCISTS!
You don’t threaten to “annex” two independent nations (repeatedly) without starting something.
You don’t start imprisoning other nations’ citizens arbitrarily.
We are in a warm war already.
Daring them all to retaliate.
He’s fucking us all.
FUCK YOU USA!
I will not come back ever
Small luxuries are extremely important for mental health.
It makes no sense whatsoever to travel to the USA any longer.
Started roughly after that so yeaaaaahhh....
Jessica https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/never-seen-anything-so-inhumane-canadian-woman-put-in-chains-detained-by-ice-after-entering-san-diego-border
I'll see if I find more.
Becky https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c80y3yx1jdyo
Jasmine https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/never-seen-anything-so-inhumane-canadian-woman-put-in-chains-detained-by-ice-after-entering-san-diego-border
Now seems a pattern of randomly detaining anyone they want. Fucking hell
ICE is being pressured to increase the number of detentions for propaganda purposes.
But the quota should be met, so they're picking any foreigner they could find a pretext to lock up.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c04ngq3lwl2o
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/10/british-tourist-detained-us-authorities-10-days-visa-issue?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
And now they have to worry about massive problems every time they leave and re-enter the country.
That was pre-9/11.
Passport control seems to have gone completely rogue
there are no answers besides "the cruelty is the point"
Regardless, only response possible is to end discretionary travel to avoid it entirely.
Since emigrating, I don't even go back to the UK unless it's absolutely necessary.
stochastic terror is plenty reason on it's own, they want legal residents to fear for their lives enough to self deport
Until someone with the authority to stop them demands it they don't have to provide anything, lawless as they're acting.
New business hours will be posted in 2026.
As for me, I once lived in Chicago, loved it, and have travelled all over the country, but I don't ever intend entering the US again.
For-profit arrests.
With detainees held in private prisons.
Let that sink in.
From 25 Nov 24:
Disgraceful, but under this regime hardly surprising.