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A British family on vacation accidentally drove into the U.S. They’ve spent days detained with their

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...onnors-british-family-ice-vacation-detention/
The Connors family didn’t plan to be on the unmarked road.

Originally from the United Kingdom, the two couples and their three young children were driving near the U.S.-Canada border on Oct. 3 during a visit to Vancouver when an animal ventured into the road, forcing them to make an unexpected detour. But before the family could get very far, flashing lights from a police car appeared in their rearview mirror. The officer that pulled them over was American — they had accidentally crossed the border.
The vacationing family says this was the moment their trip turned into “the scariest experience of our lives,” according to a complaint filed Friday to the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security. Instead of being allowed to return to Canada or the U.K., Eileen Connors alleges that her entire family, including her 3-month-old son, ended up detained at the Berks Family Residential Center in Leesport, Pa., where they have spent more than a week living in “frigid” and “filthy” conditions. As of late Monday, Bridget Cambria, the Connorses’ lawyer, told The Washington Post that the British family was still at the center waiting to be deported.
This is a very disturbing incident and is exactly what makes me ashamed to call myself an American. I get it though, this is the type of stuff that gives all of the authoritarian hard ass douche-bags hard on's.
 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...onnors-british-family-ice-vacation-detention/ This is a very disturbing incident and is exactly what makes me ashamed to call myself an American. I get it though, this is the type of stuff that gives all of the authoritarian hard ass douche-bags hard on's.


What's the big deal? They came into the country illegally and were arrested. We arrest illegal immigrants all the time.

Do you think they deserved special treatment?

You can always immigrate, if you hate us so much.
 
What's the big deal? They came into the country illegally and were arrested. We arrest illegal immigrants all the time.

Do you think they deserved special treatment?

You can always immigrate, if you hate us so much.

Well, if we don't show special favor to British people who cross the border illegally it really screws with the racism narrative...
 
What's the big deal? They came into the country illegally and were arrested. We arrest illegal immigrants all the time.

Do you think they deserved special treatment?

You can always immigrate, if you hate us so much.

On vacation, driving down an unmarked road, not knowing where their going? The pecker-wood cop should have checked them out during the stop, confirmed their situation, helped them out, turned them around got them situated on the proper road. Dude's a tool. There are exceptions in the real world. This cop is an asshole.
 
Well at least theyre being treated the same as the ones who came from south of the border... hey, its progress. :2razz:
 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...onnors-british-family-ice-vacation-detention/ This is a very disturbing incident and is exactly what makes me ashamed to call myself an American. I get it though, this is the type of stuff that gives all of the authoritarian hard ass douche-bags hard on's.
I read the article and see the problem. They came off as typical self important millennials who think that laws are meant to be bent for them. Nothing was up to their standards. A cup of soup. Awwww... so unfair. I think they probably got indignant, “I’m a British citizen, let me go colonist!” Unless the border is not marked, it’s not accidental.

Next, what animal causes you to drive on another road into another country? Bigfoot?

“ We don’t need no stinking border”.
 
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How do you know that the cop had any discretion? The at-fault party is whomever didn't properly put some kind of border control on the unmarked road. Even an emergency gate with a warning posted on the switch would be sufficient.

On vacation, driving down an unmarked road, not knowing where their going? The pecker-wood cop should have checked them out during the stop, confirmed their situation, helped them out, turned them around got them situated on the proper road. Dude's a tool. There are exceptions in the real world. This cop is an asshole.
 
It sucks that the situation couldn't just be cleared up immediately like common sense would dictate. Hopefully they got out of the country before they had to use our healthcare system.
 
Wow this story is light on details. Originally from the UK and are from where now? Their embassy is which embassy? A animal what? Made their car ricochet and diverge onto the road less traveled by? How big was this friggin animal? Where were they going in the first place and how long would anyone with a brain drive along on some uncharted road to nowhere wit a 3 month old?

There's more to this story. But hey, it's chum to attack ICE and Trump and muh, orange man bad.


God, that WaPo has gone down the toilet.
 
It sucks that the situation couldn't just be cleared up immediately like common sense would dictate. Hopefully they got out of the country before they had to use our healthcare system.

Common sense would dictate that you don't take a 3-month old on a joy ride in back roads where you don't know where TF you're going.
 
I read the article and see the problem. They came off as typical self important millennials who think that laws are meant to be bent for them. Nothing was up to their standards. A cup of soup. Awwww... so unfair. I think they probably got indignant, “I’m a British citizen, let me go colonist!” Unless the border is not marked, it’s not accidental.

Next, what animal causes you to drive on another road into another country? Bigfoot?

“ We don’t need no stinking border”.
Passive aggressive. "we'll show those good for nothing fancy pants Brits, who's boss".
 
How many adults were in the car and none of them could identify this "animal" which made their 3500 lb. vehicle give way and head inexplicably down some back roads.
What was this thing?
 
It reminds me of the guy that crossed into Mexico with firearms simply trying to make a U-turn.
 
Geez, they put a 3 month old baby in a cold cell for almost a week trying to sort out the fact that they took a wrong turn and people can still somehow defend that in any way?

Goodness, no wonder the government is the way it is. They shouldn't have turned left, **** them <--- basically.
 
One time, I was driving out in the country and a deer stood right out in the road in front of my car. The next thing I knew, I was 3 states away:roll:
 
Common sense would dictate that you don't take a 3-month old on a joy ride in back roads where you don't know where TF you're going.

Families have been packing up, hitting the road and getting lost on vacations since the car was invented and the first roads were paved.
 
Common sense would dictate that you don't take a 3-month old on a joy ride in back roads where you don't know where TF you're going.

Yeah, because they were the first people in the history of the world to take a wrong turn while on vacation.
 
Families have been packing up, hitting the road and getting lost on vacations since the car was invented and the first roads were paved.

Their story is so far fetched that it's rather peculiar anyone would accept it at face value, from some "animal" causing them to go off the beaten path (for how long? why not turn around?), to insisting an actual road that crosses the border is not clearly marked (that's the biggest joke of all here) to the excessive exaggeration about facility conditions.

Ya think that maybe these folks were crossing the border illegally?

I sure do.
 
Families have been packing up, hitting the road and getting lost on vacations since the car was invented and the first roads were paved.

Yeah, what they should have done was take a vacation in America and then blunder into Canada, at least that way they would have been cheerfully let go by the Mounties while being escorted on horseback after being given an honorary bottle of maple syrup. :mrgreen:
 
The "farm road" was so untraveled and obscure that American officials were right there policing it.

Think, folks.
 
Sooooo...where do these folks reside? Where are they from? Not "originally", but currently.
 
What's the big deal? They came into the country illegally and were arrested. We arrest illegal immigrants all the time.

Do you think they deserved special treatment?

You can always immigrate, if you hate us so much.

If you leave a country, you emigrate.
 
The "farm road" was so untraveled and obscure that American officials were right there policing it.

Think, folks.

the two couples and their three young children were driving near the U.S.-Canada border on Oct. 3 during a visit to Vancouver when an animal ventured into the road, forcing them to make an unexpected detour. But before the family could get very far, flashing lights from a police car appeared in their rearview mirror. The officer that pulled them over was American — they had accidentally crossed the border.

Where did you see "farm road" or any indication these people were driving for awhile on some kind of back road?
 
On vacation, driving down an unmarked road, not knowing where their going? The pecker-wood cop should have checked them out during the stop, confirmed their situation, helped them out, turned them around got them situated on the proper road. Dude's a tool. There are exceptions in the real world. This cop is an asshole.

The pecker-wood cop happened upon a car load of persons here illegally and he did his job and arrested them and turned them over to the proper authorities. It's not his decision to make.
 
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