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Wonder how much it cost to keep him instead of just let him back to Ireland. Bunch of cunts
With these assholes it's not about money, it's about cruelty.
Oh sure, but they'll continually claim until they're blue in the face that everything they do is about money. So they should be continually exposed as the financially irresponsible idiots that they are.
For the people where egregious human rights violations and terrorism aren't deal breakers, wasting money is. Frankly I don't respect their opinion, however, they also vote, therefore their opinion does matter.
It's both. They are unequivocally profiting from the cruelty.
I still think it's about money, especially considering the size of the prison industrial complex. It just so happens that capitalism encourages cruelty when it's profitable.
Sure it cost the taxpayers something, but that went directly into the pockets of the for-profit prison company. So you see, this is actually great for the economy!
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Daily reminder (especially to my Canadian homies) for the love of fuck do NOT travel to the US. They have made it clear they dont want visitors and it isnt safe for us to go there.
Do not risk it. Find any other safe country to visit and go there instead. Or stay home and see your own country.
Or if you want to visit North America, may I suggest Canada? Its nice here and we have cool things to see too. Also you wont be detained for no reason and live for months in a cage.
And may I suggest Mexico? It’s a beautiful country full of wonderful food, music, and people. North America is a shit sandwich, but the bread on both ends is quite magnificent.
This is beautifully written. 🤌🤌
I know several people with dual citizenship Canadian/U.S. who have moved from the U.S. to Canada in the past several months.
I just figured out a path for me to gain Mexican permanent resident and eventually Mexican citizenship if needed. It will take some time but with how this country is going, My wife and I need an escape route.
My partner and I made the decision to leave the day after inauguration. We're comfortably in Canada now.
I hope that's far enough. As a Canadian, I'm not so sure.
It was really our only choice. I have friends who went to Mexico and are also worried
If you have an escape route available, I suggest getting it prepared now. Hopefully you won't need it, but it's better to be prepared than not.
If only the dumbfucks with the stupid slogans like "love it or leave it" knew just how difficult and costly it is to legally move to another country. Unless you have money, work in a high demand job or have family connections it's fucking difficult or close to impossible to do.
Most of the dumbfucks have no way to legally move to any other country legally.
Fam has researched the same things, but have worried that Mexcico might not be far enough.
Also some worry that the locals might take it out on expats if it becomes a war.
Also some worry that the locals might take it out on expats if it becomes a war.
Learn Spanish, and hope they focus on the gringos that only speak 'Murican
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Thomas, a 35-year-old tech worker and father of three from Ireland, came to West Virginia
See? That's the problem here.
Really, people, do NOT go to the US.
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For your own personal safety, never travel to the United States.
Never travel to countries where the secret police just kidnap people off the streets.
Every country should have travel warnings against visiting the Untied States
Canada doesn't even have any new warnings. They have the regular "gun ownership" and stuff they've had for years, but not a single word about the new administration. US travel is still listed as "green". Travel to the UK is "yellow" for fuck's sake.
Yes, according to the Canadian government, it is less safe to travel to the UK than it is to the US. And that's after admitting that about 55 Canadian citizens are in US custody at any given time.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadians-ice-detention-1.7577584
Our government is failing in their responsiblity on this. Makes my blood boil that they still are walking on eggshells with the us.
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And he was locked up before Trump took office.
Nobody is safe from the system if they get pulled into it
This applies to all aspects of the US "justice" system. Once it has a hold of you, it's extremely hard to get out.
While visiting his girlfriend Malone’s family in Savannah, Georgia, Thomas experienced a mental health episode. After a conflict in their hotel room, someone called the police. Though Malone didn’t support the charge, Thomas was arrested for allegedly “falsely imprisoning” her.
Yes, it was before, but, there is a little more to it. It was a mental health episode and the police were called. One would think they would just have an air marshall fly back home with him, But the US is really not good at mental health problems.
Regardless, imprisoning him for months is completely indefensible.
Should have been a psychiatric eval and a trip home. If it would have happened the month or two earlier probably would have went down like that. He had the bad luck to have a break and still be locked up when everything was getting DOGEd
Nobody can hold a candle to 'deporter-in-chief' Obama. Secretly, the Democrats have been much harder and more effective on deportations and the border for decades.
And that excuses the inhuman trash breaking into homes with explosives to drag parents from their children?
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Nobody can hold a candle to 'deporter-in-chief' Obama.
Have you been asleep for 6 months?
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I mean, how else do you expect the present industrial complex to make all the money that it does?
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You gotta be pretty in love to travel to a backwater nation like the US. Traveling to WV though, that's beyond insanity.
Blame it to the country roads, I heard they take you there.
Love makes you do crazy things, I suppose.
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Irish are non-white again. We're going back to the 1800s, baby.
Look up the unjust hangings of Dominic Daley and James Halligan in 1806. There was no evidence whatsoever that they committed the murder they were accused of other than maybe being in the area at the time and even that was based on shaky grounds. The defense even had their closing statement saying that the prosecution had no evidence other than 'aww come on! They're Irish! You know how they're like! Besides, someone has to hang for that murder!'
And folks here in the US are making jokes about the FBI demanding polygraphs and loyalty tests, overlooking the fact that this is happening (along with the vulgar overfunding of ICE) in anticipation of a greater and more extended fascist crackdown. It's the deliberate removal of any conscience from our governing system, and we all can look at history and understand why that's happening and what it means for the future.
Just don't come here.
"Armoured cars, tanks and guns! Came to take away our sons! But we must stand behind the men, the men behind the wire!"
Latinos and Irish united in their fight against immigration officials!
Stop traveling to that shithole.
At least this (probably) white guy, who speaks the same language, got to suffer on taxpayers' dollars. What a relief. /s
Like 80 years ago. Nobody was safe from Nazi German GeStaPo. Why do people expect safety from or accountability of the Nazi American GeStaPo?
Guess the "Luck of the Irish" ran out
fun-ny...?
The Irish were second class citizens when segregation was a thing. This makes sense, I you don't think too hard.
tbf I‘m glad it doesn’t only happen to people from poor countries
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