The family of comic creator RE Burke, aka Becky Burke, have issued a detailed statement about her recent detention nightmare in the United States, asking for it to be shared
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The excuse was that she was helping with household chores in the home where she was a guest, and was therefore “working” on a tourist visa? Was she arrested for drying dishes or taking out the trash?
What I perhaps find most chilling in these stories is less the policy originators themselves, but how many people further down the chain are so eager to enforce them; when the opportunity to dehumanise others is presented, it is very often swiftly embraced by those with 'authority' to do so.
If ICE say your Visa is invalid, weather it is or not, then there is little you can do about it, and they can detain you for as long as they want, anywhere they want, you have no rights.
It used to be bad, as they sometimes got punished for breaking the law
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30,000 Americans die every year due to gun laws, yet nobody does a thing about it.
Don't stay in an AirBnB that requires you to strip the bed sheets and put them in the laundry.
Don't clear your table after eating in a fast food restaurant.
Don't pump your own gas.
Don't hold doors for anyone.
Self service checkouts..
https://medium.com/@jasminemooney/youre-not-a-criminal-but-you-re-going-to-jail-my-ice-detention-story-as-a-canadian-citizen-08b4fa77a15c
It used to be bad, as they sometimes got punished for breaking the law
It seems like the term “deportation” is being used as a euphemism for incarceration without due process.
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