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

Not sure if you read the whole article. But what REALLY scared me is not this women's experience, but the stories of the other people she met there:

>I met a woman who had been on a road trip with her husband. She said they had 10-year work visas. While driving near the San Diego border, they mistakenly got into a lane leading to Mexico. They stopped and told the agent they didn’t have their passports on them, expecting to be redirected. Instead, they were detained. They are both pastors.

That, and a couple of other stories of people stuck there in the ICE concentration camps are crazy! I am scared right now because in a couple of months I have to travel to LA (on a tourist visa) for a connecting flight to Japan ... to think that I can be "disappeared" at immigration just because the immigration agent doesn't like me is chilling.

Make sure you have as much documentation as possible printed in triplicate.

Where you're staying, for how long, receipts and booking confirmation. Be very careful with any text messages that might sound "shady" to the very paranoid customs people.

Have an exact itinerary showing step by step where, when, who.

Ok... so if I understand you correctly, traveling to the US under the current regime is about the same as traveling to North Korea.

Thank you for the heads up.