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

jimbo said:
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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BS, Ever been pulled over for speeding or another traffic violation and been let go with a warning? If their story checked out, the cop should have assisted them and helped them find their way.
 
Acadia said:
Ya think that maybe these folks were crossing the border illegally?

I sure do.
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Yeah they were all prepared and went through the proper channels and IDs to travel to Canada then just decided to cross the border for sh!ts and giggles. :roll:
 
americanwoman said:
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.
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Do you actually think there isn't more to this WaPo story than was published? If the incident occurred at all?

3 month olds don't typically get locked up in a cold cell for a week. Animals in the road don't typically warrant a detour.
 
americanwoman said:
Where did you see "farm road" or any indication these people were driving for awhile on some kind of back road?
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"The Connors family didn’t plan to be on the unmarked road."
 
Acadia said:
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.
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Possibly that 3 month's old's diaper contained 14 pounds of cocaine. And, they were detained in Pennsylvania?
 
AProudLefty said:
Yeah they were all prepared and went through the proper channels and IDs to travel to Canada then just decided to cross the border for sh!ts and giggles. :roll:
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Did have have proper ID? Proof?
What the crazy lady says?
 
jimbo said:
Possibly that 3 month's old's diaper contained 14 pounds of cocaine. And, they were detained in Pennsylvania?
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The lady doth protest WAY too much. The only thing missing from her ridiculous accusations is being forced to bottle feed her baby toilet water.:roll:
 
jimbo said:
Do you actually think there isn't more to this WaPo story than was published? If the incident occurred at all?

3 month olds don't typically get locked up in a cold cell for a week. Animals in the road don't typically warrant a detour.
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We're talking about America circa 2019. In todays authoritarian political climate this is not at all surprising.
 
HenryChinaski said:
BS, Ever been pulled over for speeding or another traffic violation and been let go with a warning? If their story checked out, the cop should have assisted them and helped them find their way.
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I missed the part where their story checked out?

Apparently it still doesn't.
 
jimbo said:
I missed the part where their story checked out?

Apparently it still doesn't.
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There's way more to this story. I think dead dog blankets might have even outdone toilet water.
 
jimbo said:
Do you actually think there isn't more to this WaPo story than was published? If the incident occurred at all?

3 month olds don't typically get locked up in a cold cell for a week. Animals in the road don't typically warrant a detour.
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Detaining 3 month old babies in inhumane conditions is pretty consistent with what ICE has been doing for last several years. How they ended up in ICE custody isn’t really the issue here. At issue is yet another horrific account of ICE detaining people and depriving them of their rights without due process, in rancid conditions, and seemingly indefinitely. Made even worse by ICE telling this family that they will be released to relatives only to bundle them into a van and jet them around the country to lock them up again in an acknowledged ICE baby jail run by a for-profit corporation. I only hope that one day Americans will stop this lunacy and hold these monsters to account for what they’ve done.
 
Acadia said:
Didn't answer my question.
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Because it was the wrong question because you thought I meant proper channels to cross the border. The point is why did they do all the work to get to Canada and vacation there then decided all of sudden they wanted to cross the border illegally?
 
Acadia said:
The lady doth protest WAY too much. The only thing missing from her ridiculous accusations is being forced to bottle feed her baby toilet water.:roll:
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That most likely will come up in the civil damages lawsuit.
 
jimbo said:
That most likely will come up in the civil damages lawsuit.
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Assuming ICE doesn’t illegally detain them until the statute of limitations runs out as they’ve done with American citizens.
 
HenryChinaski said:
We're talking about America circa 2019. In todays authoritarian political climate this is not at all surprising.
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I was addressing another poster who referred to the current living arrangements as a cold cell. The Wapo excerpt refers to it as a family detention in Pennsylvania. At least several hundred miles from the nearest border.
 
jimbo said:
I missed the part where their story checked out?

Apparently it still doesn't.
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Even before the tourists could explain why they were on the road, Connors, 24, wrote that her 30-year-old husband David and his cousin, who was driving at the time, were arrested.

“You crossed an international border,” said the officer, who allegedly did not read the men their rights and ignored the family’s pleas that they had unknowingly crossed into the United States and never intended to enter the country during their trip, despite having the proper visas. The complaint did not specify exactly where the incident took place.
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If this is true(and it probably is) then they're indeed being harassed.
 
AProudLefty said:
Because it was the wrong question because you thought I meant proper channels to cross the border. The point is why did they do all the work to get to Canada and vacation there then decided all of sudden they wanted to cross the border illegally?
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Maybe the whole Canada vacation thing was a ruse?
You don't think this story smells like 3-day old fish?
 
jimbo said:
Do you actually think there isn't more to this WaPo story than was published? If the incident occurred at all?

3 month olds don't typically get locked up in a cold cell for a week. Animals in the road don't typically warrant a detour.
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It doesn't matter what warranted their detour, that kind of thing happens all the time.

And yes, infants do get detained by ICE, at least one recorded being held for 20 days.

The Number of Babies In ICE Detention at the Border Has Shot Upward Since January - Pacific Standard

ICE Detaining 'Alarming' Number of Infants as Young as Five Months, Immigration Groups Claim

Immigrant children detained: 12 babies have been released from ICE custody at a immigration detention center, South Texas Family Residential Center, in Dilley, Texas - CBS News
 
Napoleon said:
Assuming ICE doesn’t illegally detain them until the statute of limitations runs out as they’ve done with American citizens.
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Another wild unfounded assumption.
 
 
Acadia said:
Maybe the whole Canada vacation thing was a ruse?
You don't think this story smells like 3-day old fish?
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Nope. Why didn't they come to the USA instead? Or why didn't they go through the proper channels to visit the USA if it was indeed a "ruse"?
What possible reason would be for them to do such thing?
 
Helix said:
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.
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It has to do with fellating Donnie Moscow. No common sense need apply.
 
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