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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: 0.519s | source
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CaffeineLD50 ◴[19 Mar 25 12:35 UTC] No.43411033[source]▶
I suspect they are under pressure to juke their stats and they could get a gold star for "deporting" her.

Ergo "you aren't a criminal. Come with me. You're being deported."

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Gigachad ◴[19 Mar 25 12:40 UTC] No.43411074[source]▶
This is what America did in the Middle East after 9/11. Just collect up some random people. Claim they are terrorists and send them to Guantanamo bay where they are tortured and raped for a few years for no reason other than to claim they are solving terrorism.
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ttyprintk ◴[19 Mar 25 12:50 UTC] No.43411180[source]▶
There was an interesting prelude: once the flight restrictions were lifted after 9/11, the FBI packed up 140-160 relatives of Osama Bin Laden living in USA and quietly flew them out of the country.
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Etheryte ◴[19 Mar 25 13:07 UTC] No.43411398[source]▶
This sounds odd, how does someone even have 140-160 relatives who are alive?
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1. kragen ◴[19 Mar 25 16:01 UTC] No.43413745[source]▶
His father had 22 wives† and 52 children: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_bin_Ladin

Many of them are wealthy business owners.

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† Not simultaneously: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygyny_in_Islam