'Her screams…': Horror as innocent Chilean tourist in New York snatched by NYPD, 12-year-old daughter left alone on streets

Do not visit the USA. Just don't. Spend your money elsewhere for your sake and for our sake. It's no good to anybody for you to spend it here right now.
Go visit Canada. Nice people, beautiful country this time of year. And they won't disappear you. I know because the Canadians have always been our good friends. It's very sad how they've been treated.
- There is a reason a lot of countries have travel warnings against the US

Tourists should avoid the USA (not to blame the tourists in this story, of course)
- American citizens should be avoiding the USA at this point as well. No-one is safe.
  
  I'm an American citizen and I got out. Absolutely zero regrets. Apparently it's rapidly becoming increasingly common
  
  No-one is safe.
  Not until we make the police and ICE agents feel unsafe.
  
  Not even Elon Musk himself apparently.
  
  We can take a few american refugees, but we should limit it to the same measly numbers that the US has been accepting. That would be 50 000 per year.
  Over a few millenia we could probably provide refuge for the vulnerable populations in the USA.
  
  No, we don't want American citizens anywhere else in the world, leave them in their containment nation.
  They chose, overwhelmingly, the circumstances that they're in.
- I blame the parent. Nobody with the resources necessary for an international vacation has any excuse for being ignorant of the current political state of the US, our government is actively targeting visibly hispanic people regardless of legality and has not been quiet about it. Even if their trip had gone smoothly every dollar they spent here would be indirectly supporting the shit our government is doing. The child had no choice in the matter, the parent was a fucking moron who volunteered their child for a completely avoidable traumatic experience and helped fund Trump's crimes in the deal.
  
  It's hard for people to believe this kind of crazy though.
  
  Do we know it was a pure tourist visit and they could choose the location? Many state departments are already flagging the US with a state instability warning if not no-go, so I'd assume she (or the husband) was here on business, or because there were circumstances that pushed them.
  To be fair, NYC is pretty blue, it's just the NYPD that has been for decades a threat to the people, especially nonwhites, with Bloomberg's mayorship taking much of the blame.

Anyone who still doesn't see how similiar this is to 1930s Germany, is lying, a child or ignorant to the point where they their opinion should be ignored.

The Trump administration has set strict quotas for arresting anyone even suspected of being in the country illegally, with Stephen Miller ordering that 3,000 people be arrested every single day, or ICE officers will face consequences
What the fuck
- Quotas are supposed to be illegal for law enforcement, not that they care about rule of law, but should be another note for the second Nuremberg Trials.
- Nazis. That's what the fuck. It is all so "by the book". That book was supposed to warm us away from stuff like this. But nazi rhetoric is being wielded so fiercely in 2025 that the rest of us are, justifiably, pretty confused.
- So while that could 100% be real, the tweet source is a shady Nazi promoting rag, just to provide some context. It's full of propaganda and fearbait even with a Hitler worship piece in their recent articles this year.

Nothing short of violent revolution will change anything in the states at this point. The courts are powerless, and the entire political system is rotten to the core.
- Nope. The rulings coming out of the Federal courts (more often than not from Trump appointed judges) are unambiguous and the executive branch is largely complying with them once a ruling is handed down.
  They are playing a game of legal brinkmanship in order to to try and circumvent the law (the whole dismiss-and-arrest thing happening at immigration courts - which are NOT full courthouses, btw), but don't think for one second the Judges and attorneys working on these cases aren't fully aware of what's going on.
  *edited for less word salad. Yikes
- Where are you holding your violent revolution? Are you taking video?
  
  I don't even live in the states, thankfully. And I'm more than happy to watch from afar.
  
  Idk if you're genuinely stupid or just trying to get people hurt, but fyi speaking openly about violently resisting an oppressive government on unsecure channels is a bad idea for what I would have thought would be obvious reasons. Also seems like you're sarcastically implying that we're not at a point where violent resistance is a reasonable response, in case you haven't bothered watching the news recently a whole lot of people in LA would disagree with that, and there's a shitload of video
  
  I'm stocking up on guns and ammo at the moment. I'm trying to build an armory and pantry of like 6-12 months of living and Nazi killing.

Until the last three days, I've actually been fairly optimistic.
While slow, the courts had acted to curb Donald's worst abuses. The tariffs wreaked havoc, but we saw when the bond markets reacted that someone in his administration was able to make him see reason. (My own retirement has recovered its losses from February.) Elon Musk was finally being thrown out of the administration.
But here we are now, and this is genuinely scary stuff for absolutely everyone that isn't independently wealthy. The reaction of California and the courts will dictate how things proceed. This isn't the well-organized, institutionalized abuses of immigrants of Dubya, Obama and Biden. It's the heavy-handed, sloppy, careless and unmitigated cruelty of the Gestapo.
And, for me, I just can't get around the fact that this is probably happening because a meme hurt Donald's ego.
- Trump and Steven Miller escalated the situation because they needed to feel good about themselves after Elon fucked them both over. This is probably what they planned for the elections in 2026/28.
  
  I'm not going to blame the voters for the Democrats' decision to throw the election, personally. They knew Harris was unpopular with groups they needed to win swing states. They knew Biden was unpopular too. It was their decision to crown two weak candidates without a primary and state publicly and unequivocally that they wouldn't change anything.
  You can't look at your own record as president, knowing full well your actions and willful inaction have made people significantly poorer, and reasonably conclude that the status quo is an acceptable campaign strategy.
- absolutely wild that Taco Trump sent him into a blind rage like this
  
  I wouldn't be surprised if a meme causes Trump to send troops somewhere, only for it to turn out to be a trap.

This gritty new Home Alone: Lost In New York reboot, starring Donald Trump, is just a bit on the nose
- This would be a movie that I want to watch, then turn off the second the kid is alone on the streets. Horror movies getting too realistic.

This seems like the kind of thing that's going to get a kidnapping cop shot, and they'll deserve that, but what happens after is a real wildcard.
- Good. I hope it does. Nationwide. In large numbers. Fuck them all.

Fascist shithole country
- Always was
- Fascist shithead citizens

This isn't really a "boring" dystopia anymore. Can we go back to the boring one please

And then they all go "Please! We need tourist money!"
Yeah…. Nah…
- I'm an American (Californian) and I go out of my way to buy non-American. If not that, I use Goods Unite Us to boycott any company that donates to the fascist GOP.
- Anyone traveling to or even transiting through the United States at the moment is really gambling with their life. We need more flights that completely avoid that shithole.

I hope she sues the fuck out of them . NYPD is ICE thanks to Eric Adams.
- "We've looked into it and decided its not illegal, also welcome to El Salvador"
- NYPD has always been shit. Yes, it's probably worse now, but they've never been the good guys.
- "We investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing."

Fascism in America. Brought to you by conservatives.
Start arming yourselves. If you have friends and family that aren't armed, help them get armed.
- Don't be fooled. The Dems used the same tools to their advantage before Trump. Its just not as blatantly illegal as it is now. They allowed these arms of the federal government to grow.

America is fundamentally broken.
- It’s time to dissolve the union.
- From the start

Bastards burn it all down guillotines the fucking lot

United Shitholes of America

These Nazis will not stop.
- Only one way to stop fascists.
  Always has been.

Hey is it ok for me to say we should run over ICE with our cars yet?
Maybe stop banning people for that in the middle of a civil war
- You got banned from here for that?
  I literally left Reddit after they temporarily banned my account for writing that Trump's trial will be televised just like Saddam's.
  Why do we only control the speech of leftists?
- When driving over ice, don't hit the brakes. You might lose traction. Just hold the steering wheel steady, and keep moving.

That's what you get for being a tourist in a fascist banana republic.
Chileans of all people should know better.

3000 abductions a day is the ICE quota. They just want warm (non-white) bodies.

I STILL see reactionaries tout this ICE fiasco as some type of moral victory over "evil cartel criminals" i.e. single mothers, and working men.
- You mean racist morons?

Why wasn't this dude arrested for his efforts during Jan 6th?