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Jasmine Mooney, a 35-year-old Canadian woman, has been detained in U.S. immigration facilities since March 3 after attempting to enter with an incomplete Trade NAFTA work visa application.

She was initially held at San Ysidro border crossing before being transferred in chains to detention centers in San Diego and Arizona.

Her mother, Alexis Eagles, reports inhumane conditions including overcrowded concrete cells with constant lighting and inadequate facilities.

Business partner BJ McCaslin called the situation a "nightmare" while Global Affairs Canada confirmed they're aware but unable to intervene in U.S. immigration matters.

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[-] prole 278 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Fucking shameful. This is how we treat our allies? I am ashamed to be an American.

[-] RainbowHedgehog@lemm.ee 167 points 4 months ago

TBF, this is how we treat Americans.

[-] FundMECFSResearch 20 points 4 months ago
[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 114 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

That and threatening to eliminate our country altogether. We're not really feeling the "allies" thing these days. I fairly often visit the USA, but I'm rethinking that now, along with many other Canadians. And I'm taking my money out of the USA too, wherever possible.

[-] Gerudo@lemm.ee 39 points 4 months ago

If I was a foreigner, I would not visit the US at all right now.

[-] neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 4 months ago

I am a foreigner and I won't anymore. Used to go to Florida during autumn vacation. Now we'll just go to Italy or Spain. No Jetlag and the Flights are cheaper as well

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 months ago

As a Californian why even go to Florida to begin with, seriously there are infinitely better places in Mexico alone not even factoring in the Caribbean or Central America.

[-] neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago

The climate of the Carribeans with the (relative) safety of the US. That's all there is to it.

Also we don't like it when you're in these Hotels for tourists from rich countries where your meal costs more than the staff earns. It just feels wrong. And inside you have this completely artificial experience that shatters as soon as you leave the hotel area. It's just not relaxing and morally wrong.

Also the Reason why we're staying in Europe next year despite loving the carribean climate.

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

I was thinking of the more rural portions of Baja and less touristy portions of Belize, but then again my kin have always preferred the risks associated staying away from corpo crap. My grandfather used to train jump down to Mexicali and Tijuana for dinner for context of what I think of as a good time. Is it really a road trip if ya don't nearly get shanked at a rural Nevadan gas station.

[-] neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah we don't really like those "corpo crap" holidays as well (if "corpo crap" means "classical commercial tourist destinations"). We prefer to go somewhere smaller away from all the stress and pickpockets. Rent a Hotelroom or small vacation-house and explore the place in our own pace.

But again, we're pretty risk-averse. Rome was already stressful for us because we were always afraid of getting pickpocketed. I couldn't imagine going to a country that isn't politically stable. I just couldn't relax.

So yeah, we don't like that "corpo crap" either, but we also are pretty risk-averse. That's why we usually vacate in regions that are stable and pretty rich (similar Level to Switzerland) and not too touristy. We're a difficult clientele, I know ;PP

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

Ah I see, that's frankly an alien concept to me. Risks like that don't really factor in for various reasons, I have legit wandered into VERY ghetto areas with zero care because I saw a sandwich place and was hungry. But hey you do you friend, even if your care for safety may as well be akin to a strange cultural custom to me

[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Many of us would rather fight for Canada than against. Don't fret the threats. Likely a lot of people, even some who voted for tRump, would be done defending this administration and maybe we'd see that well armed militia we keep hearing about!

[-] xye@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

They will quite literally do anything for him. I’m so sorry.

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 26 points 4 months ago
[-] frezik@midwest.social 36 points 4 months ago

The US has countries that it used to know.

[-] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 8 points 4 months ago

But we didn't have to cut you off.

[-] Hazor@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Hopefully in 4 years we can make out like it never happened and that it was nothing.

[-] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

So basically 2009 and 2021 all over again.

Now and then I think of all the times you screwed me over.

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 16 points 4 months ago

Yeah, their client state Israel, as well as Russia and presumably its client state, Belarus

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Who's who's client state again?

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

Israel is America's client state. If Israel magically ceased to exist, America would recreate it, so as to maintain their military position in the region. If America magically ceased to exist, Israel would soon follow.

Though the way things are going, pretty soon they'll both be more like Belarus

[-] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

Even its Canadian girl friend left it

[-] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 7 points 4 months ago
[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

We never had allies, we barely knew those countries, they might have gotten coffee for us at some point?

/s

[-] earphone843@sh.itjust.works 25 points 4 months ago
[-] YesButActuallyMaybe@lemmy.ca 30 points 4 months ago

Friendship with Canada ended. Now Putin is best friend

[-] ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

Since there is a certain psycho suggesting all Americans go to war for their personal protection I will take the opportunity to ride the top comment with this attempt at organizing a general strike in the US.

[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

Any general strike attempt will need to have some support from unions or similar groups with influence among large parts of essential industries. While there is a nice starting list of partners there, I don't yet see the kind of big names necessary for an effective general strike, especially a country-wide one.

I hope the organizers are seriously reaching out to large established organizations.

[-] ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It's gotta start somewhere. FWIW I have been following this for at most a month and it is increased by at least 70,000 people. Not that that's enough, but 300,000 people ain't nothing.

[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

That's true, and if we're lucky, some of those 300,000 people can help make it happen.

[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Putin's bidding to fracture the deepest alliances of the West under utterly bullshit pretenses.

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