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

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1009 points n1b0m | 2 comments | 19 Mar 25 11:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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sebstefan ◴[19 Mar 25 12:49 UTC] No.43411166[source]▶
>I was taken to the nurse’s office for a medical check. She asked what had happened to me. She had never seen a Canadian there before. When I told her my story, she grabbed my hand and said: “Do you believe in God?”

>“I believe God brought you here for a reason,” she said. “I know it feels like your life is in a million pieces, but you will be OK. Through this, I think you are going to find a way to help others.”

You've got to be fucked in the head to think this is an appropriate thing to do as an agent that's part of a federal process. Keep your god out of work!

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1. cwmma ◴[19 Mar 25 15:10 UTC] No.43413041[source]▶
if your takeaway from this article is that the most objectionable thing was that somebody gave her some religious encouragement but only after first making sure she was actually religious, then I feel like you are giving the rest of us atheists a really bad name.
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2. sebstefan ◴[20 Mar 25 09:36 UTC] No.43421204[source]▶
Why would you think it's the most objectionable thing? How likely is it that somebody exists who would even think that?

There were already 190+ comments when I wrote mine. I don't write comments if there's already one that expressed the same thought