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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)

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[–] atro_city@fedia.io 115 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There were other tourists, too. Bana, from Romania, was on holiday in Canada and visited Peace Arch park, on the international boundary between the US and Canada. She told Becky she had been taking selfies with her husband when a US border official told her they had strayed into American territory without the right visa and took her into custody.

So they're bringing people into the country to arrest them. Genius. Those detention centers must be rolling in cash right now and DOGE is ignoring it.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Isn't peace arch park not supposed to be excluded from immigration?

[–] Woht24@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Couldn't you just run back over the border?

[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Woht24@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

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

[–] OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] Woht24@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

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'

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] Woht24@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Extradite me removed!