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An Irish woman who has lived legally in the US for four decades has been detained by immigration officials for the last week because of a criminal record dating back almost 20 years.

Cliona Ward, 54, was detained at San Francisco airport on 21 April after returning from Ireland to visit her sick father and is being held at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) facility in Tacoma, Washington.

Ward holds a green card but has convictions for drug possession from 2007 and 2008, which she believed had been expunged, her family said.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 days ago

US is a hostile nation.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I'm a citizen and I've been detained like 100 times and I have a clean record. Detaining people over bs isn't new. It's nice that people seem to care at the moment but I bet they don't care enough to fix it, because most people underneath it all are authoritarian. They're happy as long as they're in power and the govt is detaining the "right" people.

[–] ayyy 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

You’ve been kept for a week and flown 1000 miles away from your destination hundreds of times?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

No but I've been detained for no reason way too many times. Honestly this was half the reason I made the comment I did. Every time you're pulled over for a traffic stop you're detained. The writers need to make it clear that what is going on goes way beyond a basic detainment.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

like 100 times

Is it closer to 100 or closer to 3?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Probably in the middle. Closer to 50 or 60, but you're not wrong in saying I exaggerated. Fifty does feel like a hundred though. Sitting on the curb in handcuffs when you didn't break any laws. That's California cops for you though.

[–] [email protected] 101 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Catholics are not considered white to the white supremacist

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Considering the US is going back to the 1800s, no better time to start treating the Irish like shit again.

[–] WoodScientist 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

MAGA will decide they want to deport Irish-Americans. Ireland will respond by saying they don't let people claim residency that many generations back. MAGA will piss and moan. Eventually they will make a deal with the UK government. The UK government will build a large prison camp in Northern Ireland, right near the border with the Republic of Ireland. Irish Americans will be banished to the camp, in direct line of site from ROI land, until such time as ROI willingly accepts them in as refugees.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Honestly sign me up. I would like nothing more than to ditch this sinking ship.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The Irish were not considered white until around 1930 or so. When the demographic shifts in the US required we be white in order to stave off the dreaded brown folk. The old bigot who lived next door to me growing up called me a tater tot until her dying day. I remember my grandfather talking about how one day he had bankers basically offering him a loan. Up until that point he was treated like shit at the bank.

Just go to http://www.rsdb.org/search?q=Irish

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The English were directly responsible for killing a million Irish people. They get hate for it, but not enough.

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 week ago (1 children)

“I bet she has tattoos!”

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'd be willing to bet the universal common denominator for anyone who isn't brown is simply that they're antifascist.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Gotta say "antifa" (ann-TEE-fuh) so it sounds like a bad thing. Like an exotic gang, like al Qaeda or something. That way, normal people think antifa is the enemy, and in doing so, they support fascism without even knowing it.

Naming and pronunciation are key. They got half of America terrified of a fucking train halfway across the world.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just wait until they figure out where Kash Patel is "really" from. Bet you the crocodile tears will run like rivers.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No, it's ok. He's one of the good ones. /s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I’m sure they looked at Indian government and figured since they routinely discriminate the Muslim population he was in the clear.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Wait.. why would they detain her let alone deport? She has legal residency.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well it’s simple really—because the fascists decree it to be so.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (4 children)

This makes residency permits completely worthless. Greencard holders other visa holders can all just be randomly detained when traveling.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago
[–] lka1988 2 points 6 days ago

Yes, that's the whole idea

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (4 children)

US Citizens have been getting deported, we're far past that already.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago (3 children)

But she's white!? (Sort of /s)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

she is a woman, aka dei, so thats a no-no for incel magats.

[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I guess the Irish and Italians aren't white any more. We're getting closer to pinning down the time period where America was 'great'.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (5 children)

As a Jewish person, I think I can see where this is going

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

it always ends up being jews in the end. first they came for the intellectuals, but the intellectuals already fled the country, then its race, poc, than the LGBTQ+ and then the jews, after that its non-loyalist supporters of the regime. at the same time getting rid of the opposition parties.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Despite the rise of anti-semitism, I actually think you guys might survive this one. I'm worried about the Italians, who only recently got their white status tentatively approved

[–] lka1988 1 points 6 days ago

Nah, I'd bet a sly Italian person slipping something about "the mob/mafia" in conversation with the maga morons would have maga rethinking antagonizing Italians.

Plus, my wife has literal family ties to the mob (she's part Sicilian)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I expect proving that you own some of Trump's memecoin will be the only way to avoid deportation soon. The god emperor can forgive any sin if you kiss the ring

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have a close friend from Venezuela, who was a warded citizenship on December, so she thinks she's safe. I'm keeping quiet, because I don't want to scare her, but Venezuelans, who used to enjoy a special immigration privileges in America because their country was being led by a rogue dictator, has become one of the most demonized groups in America.

The MAGA Nazis don't respect anything, and having a green card or even citizenship isn't going to save anyone. They want to deport people who were actually BORN here, they definitely want to kick out every person that was born elsewhere.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

My friend, also naturalized and from Venezuela, knows he's not safe. We've talked. It sucks.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It would be hilarious to see this regime shooting itself in both feet before shooting itself in the head, if this weren't some route to a full-blown 'eMerGENcy' which they can then use to deactivate democracy all together.

[–] ZombiFrancis 21 points 1 week ago (5 children)

C'mon let this establish precedent so I can get 'deported' to the home country after 150 years.

Also, why did she get sent across the country from San Fran to the SeaTac area? Is Washington acting like the Louisiana of the West Coast, what the fuck?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

best they can do is concentration camp cecot.

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