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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/46890078

cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/216477

ICE said the Canadian was found unresponsive Monday at the Federal Detention Center in Miami and was attended to by medical staff, but was pronounced dead the same day.


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[–] Doorbook@lemmy.world 47 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Again, the same passive voice. The word they should use is Killed.

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

That's archetypal passive voice since it doesn't change the target of the verb and uses state-of-being plus past participle.

"ICE kills Canadian citizen" switches this around.

[–] Blumpkinhead@lemmy.world 55 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

“At no time during detention is a detained illegal alien denied emergent care.”

I guess that doesn't go for legal residents, like this guy was.

[–] Allemaniac@lemmy.world 10 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

For them, immigrants aren't humans and do not deserve humane treatment. Who tf calls a human being an "alien"??

[–] RustyShackleford@programming.dev 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The first definition of alien is "foreign", not "extraterrestrial".

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

It's dehumanizing language, nonetheless.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 207 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

If Iran was holding a US citizen against their will and let them die in custody, we would drop a nuke on them.

I hope Canada takes the opportunity to punish us hard for this shit.

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

Unless they are a Democrat

[–] SpaceRanger13@lemm.ee 34 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I dunno about a nuke. Maybe a stern glance in the direction of Iran. I know it's not quite the same since Saudi Arabia is our frienemy after 9/11, but this US administration's support is probably more based on skin color than anything.

Jamal Khashoggi

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[–] Windswept@lemmy.world 47 points 18 hours ago (2 children)
[–] dastanktal@lemmy.ml 38 points 17 hours ago (17 children)

Iran has not confirmed that they have him in detention and this was a spy. They literally caught a US spy. Do you know what we do to people we catch spying in the US?

This is quite literally not the same thing. The US has accidentally killed a Canadian tourist. If a part of Iran's government killed a US citizen we'd use that to launch War today.

[–] neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 hours ago

of course the lemmy.ml account believes everything the authoritarian theocracy says.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 17 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

It’s not the same thing, but he was a permanent resident for over thirty years

[–] dastanktal@lemmy.ml 10 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

~~That's an interesting part of the story but in this case this Canadian tourist hadn't live in the country at all. I feel like the speed at which he entered the US and then died indicates a problem with us custody and handling.

Like I feel like it's more egregious if you lived in the country for 30 years and then you know were prosecuted as a spy but to just die from being detained is total bullshit~~

Misread something not valid.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

What case are you talking about? The article in this post is about a Canadian permanent resident of the US.

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[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 13 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I get it dude, but the US citizen in Iran was a CIA agent fucking with the country.

[–] Windswept@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

I wasn't really making any kind of judgement about it. I just read your comment and thought "I'm pretty sure that's already happened" so I looked it up.

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 11 points 17 hours ago

It sorta depends on what kind of US citizen they are. As one example, US-Israeli citizens are precious innocents who must be protected at all costs, but US-Palestinian citizens are fine as collateral.

[–] Zenith@lemm.ee 8 points 18 hours ago

No way, we haven’t given much of a fuck about this sort of thing for decades now

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 95 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Well, yeah but he probably just got here...

Checks notes

ICE noted Noviello had been a lawful permanent resident of the U.S. since 1991, after entering the country through legal visa status in 1988. However, it also said he was facing removal for being convicted of drug charges “as a non-immigrant overstay.”

37 years ago

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 42 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, at that point, he was more American than Canadian. The US government should have to explain either why he wasn't granted citizenship or else why he wasn't deported. Keeping people in citizenship limbo is just diet slavery, a disposable workforce. I get that's probably the whole point and has been for a while, but I also think it's good to call it out until enough people care to make a change.

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[–] audaxdreik@pawb.social 55 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Canada now gets to pick one of ours. Fair is fair.

Any one. Anyone at all. Just pick >_>

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 23 points 18 hours ago

Are politicians on the menu?

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 14 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

That's a difficult choice. So many good candidates. But we're still nicer than that, for now.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 6 points 16 hours ago

Only one?

/joke

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 52 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

wonder how next snowbird migration is going to play out

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 63 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

It's already not good this year. My dad owns a condo in Florida and said a lot of the Canadians sold their condos in his complex. They just didn't want to deal with the extra immigration paperwork this administration added.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 41 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] WarmSoda@lemmy.world 27 points 17 hours ago

But especially the paperwork in the gulags.

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 11 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

This comment pisses me off so much.

Are you serious? Paperwork? That's what your dad thinks Canadians are concerned about?

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 28 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

They have a second condo in Florida they're well off and mostly-white

They have that "won't happen to me" attitude.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 8 points 16 hours ago

Hmm, they sound nice.

[–] entwine413@lemm.ee 23 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Probably since I'm assuming most of them are white.

Old white people basically never think they're going to be the target for government discrimination.

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, because that's what they have said they are concerned about. Why doubt what they say?

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 0 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

BeCaUSE ThaTs wHat ThEy SaId.

I'm sorry, but it's really this kind of willful ignorance that keeps me boycotting the US. You think maybe it's the shit for brains president not only starting a worldwide trade war including its allies and even threatening to annex us? Or the fact that half of you support the rapist? Or the fact that we have to risk being sent to El Salvadore for whatever arbitrary ewason?

Please, think a little for God's sake. Do we really need to spell everything out???

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

I believe that many people think that. I also believe those are the reasons I would avoid the US. But, these people said they didn't want to deal with the hassle and I have no reason to doubt them. If they were afraid of being deported, they could have said that. These people are perfectly capable of speaking for themselves, I don't need to put words in their mouth.

[–] BlackAura@lemmy.world 12 points 14 hours ago

My parents used to go down to Arizona. They sold their trailer back in 2018 (so just before Covid which was very lucky). They've done the odd trip down to the US (they sold because they wanted to go to different places) but plan to go out to Vancouver Island and other places more often now.

Family friends with a house in Palm Desert sold their place after Trump joked about Canada being the 51st state and plan to never go back down again. At least for as long as he is president.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 25 points 18 hours ago

Cool, we’re starting to murder our neighbors. How great for us. Super swell.

[–] sad_detective_man@leminal.space 17 points 17 hours ago

ooooooh, careful guys. that border has lawyers. you were only supposed to cause wrongful deaths on the other one

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 15 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Follow the money. I guarantee a private company was involved and they probably do some kind of business in Canada. Make sure they're completely booted from the Canadian market.

[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago

Make sure to sanction their employees and their employees families too.

[–] Xerxos@lemmy.ml 14 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I would say don't visit the USA, but he was a citizen. Crazy.

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 8 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

Not a citizen, but he should have been. If a legal resident has been in the US for ten years, the government should either have to grant them citizenship or explain why they don't qualify and deport them. This guy was selling drugs, yeah, but he was also probably paying taxes. That's the whole point of the system as it is, exploiting immigrants for illegal labor and then blaming them when they get caught. This guy should have gotten a trial, probably some prison time, and enough rehabilitation to reenter free society.

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