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

HenryChinaski said:
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.
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I would have tortured each one of them to make sure they weren't terrorists. I'll bet the 3 month-old son was a terrorist little person in disguise.

Nice try, Osama!
 
jmotivator said:
Well, if we don't show special favor to British people who cross the border illegally it really screws with the racism narrative...
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Unless they were British citizens but not caucasian! Did you even think of that? NO! That's why you have me!
 
americanwoman said:
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
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It does matter what warranted the detour. That's one part that is missing from the story.

I've lived up against the Rockies, up against the Appalachians. I've encountered dozens of animals in the road ranging from rabbits to elk and bear. I've never encountered one that caused me to take a detour.
 
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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I'm afraid I'm gonna need further backup on that tidbit.
 
PoS said:
Well at least theyre being treated the same as the ones who came from south of the border... hey, its progress. :2razz:
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I guess this is as good a time as any to make my announcement, I mean I was going to descend an escalator with my trophy wife and do it but now's a good a time as any:

Hi, I'm Lurch and I'm running for president. When Canada sends their people they're not sending their best, they're bringing crime, good-tasting coffee, and some I assume are bringing smooth-tasting but curiously strong beer.

If I'm elected president, I'm going to build a wall between the U.S. and Canada and Canada's going to pay for it!

I guarantee it!
 
jimbo said:
I'm afraid I'm gonna need further backup on that tidbit.
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For example, ICE illegally detained American citizen Davino Watson for three and a half years. He tried to sue in civil court when they finally released him from their maze of gulags by dumping him on the side of the road in rural Alabama. He won in his home state of New York, but ICE appealed and the Appellate Court ruled that he wasn’t entitled to damages because the statute of limitations expired while he was still in ICE detention without access to a lawyer.

U.S. Citizen Who Was Held By ICE For 3 Years Denied Compensation By Appeals Court : The Two-Way : NPR

They’ve done it before. Don’t be surprised if they do it again.
 
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Re: A British family on vacation accidentally drove into the U.S. They’ve spent days detained with t

jimbo said:
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.
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It's not that hard to believe a for-profit detention center has ****ty accommodations, that place even had their license revoked by PA DHS - but you know, money talks.

Berks center with history of abuses could become model for detention of asylum-seeking families | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

But over the past four years, since the Obama administration reinstituted family detention to house families fleeing violence in Central America, the center — one of three family detention centers in the country — has been a site of controversy, with immigrants’ rights advocates alleging health and human rights abuses. In 2016, 22 detained mothers went on a 2-week hunger strike, saying their children had become suicidal after over a year in detention. The same year, a guard at the center was convicted of sexually assaulting a 19-year-old asylum seeker who had been detained with her 3-year-old son for 7 months.

The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services revoked the 96-bed facility’s license to house children in 2016, but the county appealed, and the center continues to operate as the legal battle goes on.
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PA Green Party Says, “Shut Down Berks Detention Center, NOW !” - www.gp.org

In my capacity as volunteer director of a local immigrant rights group, I visited a Doylestown resident and her 3-year-old son after they were apprehended by ICE in my community and subsequently detained at Berks in 2017. I have seen with my own eyes the confinement of small children with their parents, even though these families could easily be released to pursue their legal cases.
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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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True. We have enough freeloaders on ours.
 
PoS said:
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:
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Actually, the only time I ever got into trouble at a border crossing was in Canada! My company has properties in Canada and Back in the early 2000's I was on a special project to install a WAN at one of them. I had to undergo a 3rd degree by a border agent regarding why a Canadian person couldn't just do it.. An hour or so later, I had to pay them a couple hundred dollars, finally.. some type of temporary work visa just to go do my job. They don't like Americans coming up and working there.

True story!
 
jimbo said:
It does matter what warranted the detour. That's one part that is missing from the story.

I've lived up against the Rockies, up against the Appalachians. I've encountered dozens of animals in the road ranging from rabbits to elk and bear. I've never encountered one that caused me to take a detour.
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That's you.

You don't speak for anyone else who may see an elk and panic. :shrug:
 
Acadia said:
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:
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Me and 400 of my cousins got chased by big foot from Mexico into California until he gave up the chase and disappeared. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it, hombre.
 
jimbo said:
It does matter what warranted the detour. That's one part that is missing from the story.

I've lived up against the Rockies, up against the Appalachians. I've encountered dozens of animals in the road ranging from rabbits to elk and bear. I've never encountered one that caused me to take a detour.
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AProudLefty said:
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?
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There's a whole world of possibilities. But hey, if this story fits your narrative and gives you another opportunity to drub on ICE and CBP and Trump, enjoy.
And don't follow up for any of the details missing in this amateur report.
 
chuckiechan said:
Me and 400 of my cousins got chased by big foot from Mexico into California until he gave up the chase and disappeared. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it, hombre.
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Big Foot would explain it. Is it called Big Foot up in Canada? Or is it Yeti?
 
Acadia said:
There's a whole world of possibilities. But hey, if this story fits your narrative and gives you another opportunity to drub on ICE and CBP and Trump, enjoy.
And don't follow up for any of the details missing in this amateur report.
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I have not said one word about ICE, CBP and Trump. Just you. Ironic since you said it fits my narrative when it's your narrative that it's all about Trump to us. ;)
 
lurchadams said:
Unless they were British citizens but not caucasian! Did you even think of that? NO! That's why you have me!
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Well, except for the pictures of the family in the British press. :roll:

Option #1: Stop assuming everyone else is as ignorant as you choose to be.

Option #2: Avoid ignorance by: 1)Reading the the article 2) Looking to the British press to see how they are reporting the story... 3) see pictures of the family... etc.


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lurchadams said:
Actually, the only time I ever got into trouble at a border crossing was in Canada! My company has properties in Canada and Back in the early 2000's I was on a special project to install a WAN at one of them. I had to undergo a 3rd degree by a border agent regarding why a Canadian person couldn't just do it.. An hour or so later, I had to pay them a couple hundred dollars, finally.. some type of temporary work visa just to go do my job. They don't like Americans coming up and working there.

True story!
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Aha! I knew it! Canucks really arent nice people- they just pretend to be!
 
Acadia said:
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.
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I liked that part too... "gee officer, an animal went in front of us right at this specific intersection that MADE US turn onto a different road and that we did not know where it lead, but we continued driving down the road anyway"... What the ****? :lol:
 
jmotivator said:
Well, except for the pictures of the family in the British press. :roll:

Option #1: Stop assuming everyone else is as ignorant as you choose to be.

Option #2: Avoid ignorance by: 1)Reading the the article 2) Looking to the British press to see how they are reporting the story... 3) see pictures of the family... etc.


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She looks like she is off of that Jersey Shore UK ripoff show... gross.
 
HenryChinaski said:
Families have been packing up, hitting the road and getting lost on vacations since the car was invented and the first roads were paved.
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Dude, this isn't the 1950's anymore... I use technology less than just about anybody I know and even I know about Google Maps/Directions... not to mention just a plain old map.
 
Acadia said:
Big Foot would explain it. Is it called Big Foot up in Canada? Or is it Yeti?
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In Canada, they call them Big FEET.

Canada is much more inclusive than the U.S.
 
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