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dwazou@jlai.lu to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 1 year ago

I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre

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I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre

www.theguardian.com

dwazou@jlai.lu to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 1 year ago
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Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking of going to Trump’s America: don’t do it
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    Isn’t peace arch park not supposed to be excluded from immigration?

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      Couldn’t you just run back over the border?

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        If you don’t mind being shot for trying to escape.

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          Doubtful but I’d take my chances. Even if I was shot, as long as I fell over the border, Canada would take me into it’s wondrous public health care and discharge me with no bill and a cheery ‘sorry bout that eh’

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        Well I hope Canada has beefed up their security at the park to prevent this from ever happing again. Otherwise ICE just might start riding into Canada collecting people to keep their numbers up.

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          They should just shoot anyone from the US side crossing the border, no warning shots.

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        That’s what I was thinking. Would depend where you are, but just leg it

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          Extradite me removed!

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