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But someone *thinks* she might be going to work when she is on a tourist visa. Kind of like what Musk actually did

@gleick It's going to get much, much worse. Travel to the US is very much ill-advised for the foreseeable future.

@gleick this story was just sickening

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We need some vigilantes.

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@gleick I’m gonna keep hollering that this isn’t a little bit new for US immigration until I’m confident that people won’t believe the problem is fixed should a dem administration get back in office

https://social.wub.site/@simrob/114093651757875347

@gleick hey Elon I found the waste and abuse

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*snip*
“After nine days, she says she started freaking out and punching the walls,” Lofving said. “There was blood everywhere.”

This is vacation in America now.
It'd be a great time to kill Disney and ehatever else we got by staying the fuck away and safe in any other nation that isn't one big roach trap.

Uspol

@gleick You couldn't pay me enough to visit the USA ever again.

Along those same lines I'm beginning to believe that Canada needs to consider stationing troops to the border to help prevent American incursion into our country.

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.... and it is not #Russia

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CoreCivic and Geo Corp are private prison conglomerates who donated heavily to the GOP.
https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/private-prison-behemoth-is-first-corporation-to-max-out-to-trump/

Essentially, they bought lucrative no-bid government contracts, using corrupt campaign finance.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/private-prison-firms-contributed-1m-trumps-reelection-now/story?id=116046776

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-inauguration-donors-big-oil-big-pharma-big-tech-crypto-1235252214/

Trump's GOP wants to bring back 1930's convict leasing.

Prisons already produce $11 billion worth of goods & services off prison slave labor per year.
https://www.epi.org/publication/rooted-racism-prison-labor/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/texas-walmart-american-southern-university-at-buffalo-b2707250.html

https://www.wytv.com/news/local-news/corecivic-adding-space-for-ice-detainees/

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@gleick And if I needed even more reasons to not set foot in the US, this is it! Rule of law, schmule of law!

@gleick Pardon me Sir, but what are you doing in the USA with a South African -and- a Canadian passport?

#ElonMusk #passport #arrests #deportation #criminalization #transphobia #racism #fascists

@gleick “CBP agents at the border accused Brösche of planning to violate the terms of the visa waiver program by intending to work as a tattoo artist during her trip to LA, Lofving said.”

This is absurd. They are also holding her past the time of her return flight (mid-February).

uhh ... clearly just one example from one source but as someone who's flown to the US multiple times over the last few years that's a little frightening to read

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This is not new. They've been doing this for a while.

@gleick Is the time getting ripe for the national flags to be replaced by the red flag - in the footsteps of Albert Einstein? 🤔 🟥

https://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism/

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Our family Trumper has moved from Florida to Ireland, so I personally don't need to go anywhere near the US ever, for which I am duly grateful. Past visits were also not very enticing anyway.
It's notable that a Trumper would rather live in the EU than in Florida.

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So, if some halfwit worries that maybe you are thinking of violating some rule of civil law, possibly, in the future, somehow, then it's okay to throw you in prison without an attorney and with no chance to contact your family or friends? And to start billing American taxpayers at an exorbitant rate for your confinement ?

Is this different in any significant way from Russia and Iran grabbing innocent foreign visitors to use them as currency for "diplomatic exchanges"?

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This is a terrible story. And means Europese countries, and others, should also snatch American to exchange for their citizens. There should be a red warning for the USA as very dangerous country without human rights.

@gleick Was only a matter of time. Thank goodness this person is known, as I could see many not being able to let folk know where they are.

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Incarceration for profit. New clients from unwary foreigners.

@gleick This is the first time I have heard of this story.
I hope she and her family sue the crap out of the United States and Core Civic.
No #dueprocess

@gleick During the Biden era I blew a job interview by refusing to commit to business trips into the US, which I referred to as a far too dangerous a country for me to be expected to travel to.
Being "disappeared" by eager border agents under the cover of security was my primary concern. Now here it is, happening. Either as policy or not its terrifying and disgusting and no one should travel to the US any more than they would travel to North Korea.

@gleick Maybe Los Angeles should sue for all the money they are investing in the Olympics since only a handful of americans will be able to safely attend. 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️

@gleick @dyckron I am not stepping a foot into this country. I already told my employer I won’t go for work either. They can fire me over this if they want.

@gleick @Lazarou Well that’s the end of the US tourist industry. Has Musk sacked them yet because he might as well?

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The answer to "...Why are American taxpayers spending thousands of dollars detaining tourists who are perfectly willing to leave,” she..."
Is in the same article. Its a private corp running a for profit prison.

@gleick The ugly thing is they’re claiming she was coming in to the U.S. to do work, which would be a violation of her visit under the Visa Waiver Program. The assumption by the CBP official is that she was going to (not had, not did, but will and intends to) violate the terms of the VWP is wild to me. That’s way beyond reasonable assumption, by anyone. And she’s from a friendly country, and can’t even speak with the consulate?

The story gets more horrible the more you think about it.

@gleick This was a possibility for a very long time. People used to tell me I'm bonkers paraniod when I told them that this is one of the chief reasons why I don' travle to the US. I was always told that this all theoretical and would never happent to random people. I hate when I'm right in ghe end 😔