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  • Both say they were handcuffed and sent to a detention center, which they claimed was more like a prison.

    “We were searched with metal detectors, our entire bodies were scanned, and we had to stand naked in front of the police officers and were looked through,” Pohl said. “Then we were given green prison clothes and put in a prison cell with serious criminals.”

    Among them was someone who had spent 18 years behind bars for murder, the women said, and they were left sleeping in a double cell with tiny barred windows and metal bunks with moldy mattresses.

    I really want to know what changed that made the above happen much more often.

    In December, if Customs had concerns about two teenagers trying to sneak into the US to work on a travel visa, where did they go? How was it handled? Because it feels like overkill and probably much more expensive than what we used to do.

    Why are we sending backpacking teenagers with visa concerns to the same place as a murderer?

    Why are they being strip searched like they were drug smugglers?

    But the women — who were planning to continue on to Los Angeles and then Costa Rica after Hawaii — insisted they were interrogated by CBP for hours, and that transcripts show their words were “twisted” and outright falsified.

    “They contained sentences we didn’t actually say,” Pohl said of interrogation transcripts they were sent home with.

    “They twisted it to make it seem as if we admitted that we wanted to work illegally in the US,” she told the German outlet Ostee Zeitung.

    And then this feels like the after-the-fact coverup. Whatever they held them on was super flimsy, so they tried to make it sound worse when they realized this was going to hit the news.





  • Absaroka@lemmy.worldtoA Boring Dystopia@lemmy.worldThis is real
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    7 days ago

    Let’s do some fact checking.

    THEY said he was wrongly deported. Repeatedly. And refused to do anything about it.

    Our jackass Attorney General shared a link recently that said he had “no criminal background” and there’s been no actual evidence that shows he was in MS-13.

    And while I’m not sure of his technical, official status, I would say somebody who was allowed to stay in the United States by a judge because of dangers back home, isn’t consider an illegal alien any more, but a political refugee who has asylum in our country.

    You have to wonder if this whole thing is just a petty attempt at retribution by Trump, because this guy was allowed to stay in the country the first time.



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    Childish and petty? Or “winning”?

    I feel like a corner piece of the puzzle of MAGA is feeling like some how sending a brown Maryland father to El Salvador makes them feel better about their shitty lives. It’s a superiority thing.

    And some how Trump and Fox News have convinced them that they share in the victories of guys like Mush and Trump enriching themselves.

    My mom said something completely asinine (and factually false) once.

    “I’m way too successful to be a Democrat.”








  • I’ve seen this line of reasoning spouted by a bunch of MAGAts.

    Because yes, on the face of it should an institution with $53 billion in the bank be getting billions in taxpayer money.

    BUT … the Trump administration didn’t say “we’re going to end government funding to colleges and universities and we’d like to have a public debate on that.”

    They didn’t even say “we don’t think rich and powerful colleges like Harvard shouldn’t be getting billions in taxpayer money so we’re ending that giveaway.”

    No. They went the bully route and said “if Harvard doesn’t follow OUR ideology and our perverse way of looking at the world, then we’re going to try and hurt them.”

    That is tyranny. That is oppression. That is blackmail.

    And anybody who isn’t in a political cult can see that.