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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: 0.322s | source
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richev ◴[19 Mar 25 12:39 UTC] No.43411066[source]▶
Related: "The case for boycotting the United States" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/18/us-tru...
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dkd903 ◴[19 Mar 25 13:14 UTC] No.43411483[source]▶
This is what main stream media propaganda looks like.

> Dr Alawieh had traveled last month to Lebanon, her home country, to visit relatives.

No, she did not; she attended the funeral of a leader of a US-designated terror organization.

https://x.com/DHSgov/status/1901668299793899705

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rgreeko42 ◴[19 Mar 25 14:50 UTC] No.43412761[source]▶
Oh, well if DHS says so on X The Everything Site it must be true
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yks ◴[19 Mar 25 15:10 UTC] No.43413037[source]▶
In a blink of an eye Americans went from "the government is out there to oppress you" to "if the government says the undisclosed people it snatches from the streets and deports are criminals, it must be true".
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tac19[dead post] ◴[19 Mar 25 15:57 UTC] No.43413700[source]▶
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oa335 ◴[19 Mar 25 16:08 UTC] No.43413866[source]▶
> There is a sense that the new American administration is more appropriately focused on oppressing criminals and people occupying the country illegally, which may account for more acceptance and a slight uptick in trust

That’s not an interesting insight IMO.

All governments claim some degree of criminality or immorality of the people they are oppressing.

After all, didn’t this administration pardon people who 50% of the country believe were actively trying to overthrow the government?

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1. tac19 ◴[19 Mar 25 16:14 UTC] No.43413962[source]▶
> That’s not an interesting insight IMO.

I think it accurately explains the mood shift of the portion of the public the OP was originally criticizing for apparent hypocrisy. The same portion of the public who think the prosecutions of the Jan 6 protestors as wildly overzealous, at best.