NZ woman Sarah Shaw and six-year-old son detained by US immigration
NZ woman Sarah Shaw and six-year-old son detained by US immigration
Apparently this happened three weeks ago and the news is just coming out now. Winston Peters as usual has no idea what is happening and is too busy licking Trump's boots to actually say or do anything.
never before have i seen such unfortunately placed blurs.
Let's just be glad we didn't get a shot of Sarah's shaw.
Dear rest of the world - DO NOT TRAVEL TO AMERICA. Also, don't rely on your trade with the US, you will be treated like his underaged non-consenting victims. And then blamed for it and denied.
You fly over it when you go to beautiful Mexico from Europe.
That's as close as I want to get.
Unfortunately they never let me open the window to spit or piss on it.
Edit: Please don't use 'America' when you mean only this particular banana republic.
Why are people still choosing to visit the US I honestly don't get it.
Is that our 18th person this year reporting issues at the us border. They've lost the plot, our gov needs to upgrade the travel warning.
Absolutely.
Honestly scary stuff happening. My once dream of getting over to the States, when I was younger, has now died out.
Go to Canada instead.
We had actually planned to visit Seattle/British Columbia right before Covid Lockdowns hit, and havent really thought about it since.
To be honest, a lot of my sense of connection with the USA was due to Sports that I follow, and due to constant portrayal from Films/TV Shows. Other than that, don't really have a sense of wanting to visit North America at this point in time.
Slightly less racist and right-wing.
It just has much better PR
As an American, I've always thought NZ would be an amazing place to move to. Why have you dreamed of moving out?
When you sit down and think about it, especially now, I don't really know.
I would guess it had a lot to do with the fact that when I was younger, everything seemed to be centered in the US. Films, TV Shows, a lot of Sports I watched, Companies etc etc. Also, the fact that NZ is so small, and the US seems so BIG, makes you want to live that sort of lifestyle.
Again, as I start getting a bit older, I have come to really appreciate living in NZ. I still might travel somewhere International and try living there for a few years (if everything aligns at some point), but not really too fussed about it anymore. When some of my friends started moving overseas, I would say I was jealous for a bit, and it really made me wanted to do the same, but now it's a lot of indifference.
Anyone know how they would have been transported from the Canadian border all the way to Texas?
Mahmud Kalhil was handcuffed and put on a plane and shipped to three different prisons before anybody even knew where he was. That's what they do. They kidnap people and shove them in a hole someplace without telling anybody where they are. They even shipped people to El Salvador torture concentration camps. They are shipping people to be tortured all around the world now.
From a different article:
Originally entering the U.S. sponsored by her ex-husband, Shaw is now in the process of seeking a green card independently under a domestic violence survivor's provision. According to the GoFundMe, Shaw had work authorization but not travel permissions just yet, as part of what is known as a "combo card", while her son did.
"Sarah had been waiting on some travel documents to be approved. But once her visa and her children's visas were cleared, she felt comfortable taking them to Canada. We assumed everything was fine.“
ICE Detains Woman in Green Card Process and Son at Canadian Border — Newsweek
So she is in the U.S. legally under a work permit, is seeking citizenship legally after her husband abused her (having abandoned a prior attempt at a spousal green card), and was granted a travel visa by Canada, but was not authorized to travel by the U.S.
Does that change your interpretation of events or add any nuance to them?
This has been happening to dozens of people. Yes, even white people from white countries. Don't fucking come to the US right now. We're not even really safe inside with our genuine US passports and all, definitely don't go out of your way to subject yourself to it if you're literally the currently active entry in the little Martin Niemöller to-do list.
I had the opportunity to visit the US for an event but decided against it and am so glad I did. I don't need to be sitting in a jail in some shithole state for no reason.
Please accept our apologies, hopefully we're able to get our shit together at some point but it's likely to be like this for a while and probably get substantially worse before it gets better.
My wife and a friend were planning on going to the Mall of America before Trump gained power. We said Fuck that and they went to West Edmonton Mall. Similar vibes, got to go on rides, etc., and not in America!
I guess communists are safe there.
So afraid to mention the C-word they ommited the first sentence of his poem.
In the US Holocaust Memorial Museum no less.
Imagine them doing a little revisionism.