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I'm the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks

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1009 points n1b0m | 1 comments | 19 Mar 25 11:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.596s | source
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stewx ◴[19 Mar 25 12:34 UTC] No.43411024[source]▶
My takeaway from this is that laws and rules don't matter if the officials on the ground are incompetent, ignorant, and have contempt for you.

There is a lot of unnecessary cruelty and lack of due process in this story.

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1. 01HNNWZ0MV43FF ◴[19 Mar 25 13:12 UTC] No.43411452[source]▶
There's that proverb "You might have the right of way, but the semi truck will still kill you". We might have the Constitution, but it apparently is enforced on an honor system. (Plus non-citizens don't have any rights, so I guess they aren't inalienable human rights after all, eyeroll)