Her advice to anyone planning to travel to the US is simply not to go. “First, because of the danger of what could happen to you. And, secondly, do you really want to give your money to this country right now?”
this post was submitted on 05 Apr 2025
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I'm having real difficulty convincing my mother not to go to the US. She doesn't really pay much attention to the news and although she knows some things are going on I find it very hard to get her to understand how serious it is.
this is well within the territory where you shouldn't feel bad about pulling out all the stops and making a personal emotional appeal, outright beg her not to go, tell her you're terrified of losing your mom
There's a significant amount of Americans that are trying to get out. After they close the boarders in they start closing them going out.
There were other tourists, too. Bana, from Romania, was on holiday in Canada and visited Peace Arch park, on the international boundary between the US and Canada. She told Becky she had been taking selfies with her husband when a US border official told her they had strayed into American territory without the right visa and took her into custody.
So they're bringing people into the country to arrest them. Genius. Those detention centers must be rolling in cash right now and DOGE is ignoring it.
Isn't peace arch park not supposed to be excluded from immigration?
Couldn't you just run back over the border?
If you don't mind being shot for trying to escape.
Doubtful but I'd take my chances. Even if I was shot, as long as I fell over the border, Canada would take me into it's wondrous public health care and discharge me with no bill and a cheery 'sorry bout that eh'
That's what I was thinking. Would depend where you are, but just leg it
Extradite me bitch!
Well I hope Canada has beefed up their security at the park to prevent this from ever happing again. Otherwise ICE just might start riding into Canada collecting people to keep their numbers up.
They should just shoot anyone from the US side crossing the border, no warning shots.
Speaking as an American, everyone who can needs to stay the fuck out until we can get some semblance of having our shit together.
My entire extended family is in America. They voted for Trump, we will never be visiting them again most likely. America is not safe.
I used to take semi-regular business trips to the US, but I think from this point I will try to move everything online. Aside from it not being safe for me in other ways, all it would take is someone with a suspicion that my work on the trip is "illegal" to send me to prison :/
Best to get a lobotomy before going to the US that way they won’t be able to accuse you of trying to work illegally while you’re there. It also has the benefit that you’ll finally be on the same mental level as Trump and his supporters.
Doing payroll would be you performing a transaction in another country to people in that other country. At no point are you performing work where you receive remuneration in the country you're visiting - which is the point of working visas. Just because you did a bit of paperwork for your work back home doesn't mean you're violating tourist visa conditions.
TAKE ME WITH YOU!!!
Say does anybody in the EU want to host an american who's down on his luck?
Is that Homer Simpsonn?
So what I'm not understanding is, why are we putting people in jail for something that isn't causing harm? Unless, is there something about overstaying your visa that is harmful?
To do maximum harm to Hispanics. We have totally legal Americans who are Hispanic leaving the country, they can afford to, and it's all because of this ethnic clensing, which is 100% what anti immigration hate is about its that Hispanics aren't white enough, and they want us all out now.
There's already talk from Trump's goverment that they are considering special IDs being required. You know. Exactly what the Nazi did gearing up for the holocaust. This is ethnic clensing, it's disregarding the rights of any Hispanic people and attacking them legally and illegally and daring anyone to stop them. So far, no one in particular cares.
There’s already talk from Trump’s goverment that they are considering special IDs being required.
Fucking hell, I hadn't heard about this yet.
From what I am to understand it will be finally requiring the Real ID be implemented everywhere, and everyone needs to carry that, or a passport.
Papers please.
Yes, commissar
In this case, however, it is a white British national. It doesn't seem to fit into the racist rhetoric that normally comes out of this administration, instead being a broader targeting of foreigners in general. (This of course not being the only case of Europeans facing problems)
Racism is a huge factor, but it seems the end goal goes further towards complete isolationism.
Catering to your idiotic voters is the reason.
I'm sorry, but this is NOT the kind of person I want in prison. AND I don't want prisons profiting off her misery.
People have been denied entry to the US because they said they were going to house sit. To the law that’s considered work for accommodation. Immigration has every right to deny you entry. Doesn’t matter if you guys agree with it or not.
Just never say you are doing chores or work in exchange for accommodation to any border cop in any country. So never say you do homestay or are housesitting. It will get you kicked out in many countries not just the US and Canada.
Also this article just proves to only cross the US border by airplane. It seems that every tourist that is in an ICE detention center crossed the border on land.
If she landed in Vancouver she would’ve been send home by plane. Also I bet she wouldn’t have been caught if she went trough immigration at the airport. Canadian immigration cops are a lot stricter at the borders than at the airport.