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Bachir Atallah
Yeah, I think I know why they detained him.
Fuck this country.
First they came for...
Move up the list.
They came for...
They are coming for us all. Act accordingly.
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But not even the OK half of that chart is set in stone unless you have an obviously American surname like Smith or Jones. You could be a white fifth generation American with a surname that sounds remotely middle Eastern, east European, etc. and you could be in for a rude awakening…
They detained a white German tourist trying to enter with a German passport and valid visa for several weeks, while he begged them to just let him book the next flight back to Germany.
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It is awfully suspicious. Who in their right mind would return from Canada under the current circumstances?
They were US citizens. Canada doesn't let you stay longer than 6 months when just visiting. They had no choice but to return home at some point.
Pretty sure the comment you were responding to was sarcastic.
Anyone making sarcastic internet comments in text expects some subset of people to take it seriously. Its part of the fun!
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Been saying for awhile now if you plan on leaving the country, plan to move.
Nobody should be coming here right now. It's too dangerous.
Not with the head of ice saying shit like "we want prime but for people" regarding deportations
Even if CBP had legal justification to detain them, can someone explain to me why the officer put his hand on his gun when asked a verbal question? Is that not brandishing?
Pretty sure they now have qualified immunity (and then some) anywhere within like 100 miles of any border or point of entry. Specifically included permission to detain anybody, citizen or not, without any paperwork. At least, best I can remember. It was one of many truly disgusting supreme court rulings in my life.
Edit: corrected the word "detain"
That’s not the question. Why did he put his hand on his gun?
Umm, what do you mean it's not. He put his hand on his gun because there are absolutely no consequences for doing so. To put it even more simply, he did it because he can.
Are you sure you're asking the question you want answered???
Small dick energy.
It's a standard cop intimidation tactic. There was this really toxic concept that cops were (still are?) taught that they need to "take command" of every situation and one of their first priorities is to intimidate and scare anyone who doesn't immediately start blindly following their instructions. They perceive asking questions as a threat to their "authority" that needs to be eliminated at all costs.
As someone who believes in the right to bear arms for self defense, that guy should never be near a gun.
That seems to apply to the majority of law enforcement who in general seem to be the absolute last people that should have any kind of authority over anybody else. There's a reason something crazy like 60%+ of police commit domestic abuse.
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Yes it was. The short answer to your question is very obvious: because he can get away with it and it gives him a feeling of power to threaten people. It's the why OP answered for you.
Because we don't have a legal system. We have fascism.
Perfectly legal in maga 'merica.
Due process what...?
First, LEOs can do as much brandishing as they want. They are trained that any resistance or hesitation to their orders is a threat. They are only trained to escalate situations with threats of violence. That officer was communicating that they will not elaborate or answer any questions.
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And this will keep on happening until people react
Don’t tell that to Americans on Lemmy- they’re absolutely itching to get defensive and indignant at the suggestion that “being upset” doesn’t quite count as “action.”
Flying home from international now.
Wish me luck my homies!
Just be white, and you'll be fine. Kinda like my other advice. Just be rich and you'll be fine.
It's not like they have thrown white Tourists from Germany or Canada in the prison the last few weeks instead of refusing them at the border
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Good luck! Let us know how it went!
If you don’t hear from me hello from El Salvador!
I have seen some rhetoric about this, like "a few bad apples," but here's the problem with this and a lot of enforcement jobs.
- Polite and decent people, on average, dislike confrontation. Thus, are not particularly attracted to these types of jobs.
- This leads to an uneven amount who are fine with confrontation or even like it. Some of these people are sociopaths and psychopaths.
- People who are psychopaths are actually very attracted to position where they have power over people.
- US Customs are not regulated under the same laws as police or military. They can do what they want, when they want, with little to no discretion.
Are all US customs agents bad? No, of course not. But unchecked power is dangerous for anything. I can't tell you what percentage is or is not, because you can't measure a negative. But I see this in military, police, hired guards, and politics.
Many years ago, they cavity searched an underage girl at my local airport (Dulles) as she returned with her family from a vacation in Jamaica. They separated her from her family, did not tell her family, and searched all her holes "for drugs." They defended their actions by saying, "if we told people we didn't cavity search babies, they'd hide drugs inside babies." Essentially admitting, with no shame, they'd cavity search an infant. All in the name of "stopping drugs." Oh and the girl? US citizen, but dark skinned. The mistake they made was her dad was a powerful attorney and went public.
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-106hhrg66023/html/CHRG-106hhrg66023.htm
https://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/circle/raceprofiling/stories.racial.profiling.html
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I've been seriously reconsidering my vacation to Mexico scheduled for the second half of this year. I'm Asian and I have no doubt that I will be "randomly selected" to go through extra screening.
I think people in here didn't read the article. Border patrol explained that he was just overreacting. Being cuffed and placed in a cell for hours is part of normal operating procedure. It's all fine. Everything is fine.
Funny how so many of these detained US citizens share certain, ahem, characteristics about their names
So basically anyone non-white should never visit, and if youre not white and plan to leave, plan on it just being for good.
Murica
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