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

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1009 points n1b0m | 4 comments | 19 Mar 25 11:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.636s | source
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drumhead ◴[19 Mar 25 12:41 UTC] No.43411088[source]▶
If the objective is to scare people off from going to the USA, then they're doing a magnificent job. I've heard other cases of people with green cards being arrested and put in terrible conditions, with absolutely no reason given. This woman was ready to go back home and not enter the US, but instead she was dragged through hell and only released because she was Canadian. All those with different passports get subjected to their own more oppressive and never ending hells, like being deported to a prison camp in Ecuador with no idea when you'd ever be released.

New America is absolutely terrifying.

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rayiner[dead post] ◴[19 Mar 25 13:14 UTC] No.43411482[source]▶
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1. fads_go ◴[19 Mar 25 15:54 UTC] No.43413648[source]▶
Yes, they should be afraid, just like it says at the bottom of the Statue of Liberty.

rayiner, I'm wondering if your bloodline is 100% native american, because otherwise it seems like the person you are afraid of is yourself.

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3. xyzzyz ◴[19 Mar 25 16:24 UTC] No.43414093[source]▶
20 years after that poem was affixed to the Statue of Liberty, a new immigration law was passed that practically banned almost all immigration. It was passed, because the American population rejected the immigration policy that that poem represented.

I don't think that 120 years later, bringing up that poem is meant to evoke some kind of universal American spirit. This is not what Americans actually believed back then, and it's not what Americans believe today. That poem has been rejected at the ballot box.

4. rayiner ◴[19 Mar 25 17:46 UTC] No.43415150[source]▶
I’m 100% Bangladeshi on both sides going back to before anyone knows. I wasn’t even born here.

And yes, of course that’s what I’m afraid of! My family left a country full of people like us to come here. Why would we want millions of others coming behind us to turn here into there?