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You have to be clinically insane to go to the US now.
“I was aware”, she says. What’s the definition of insanity again?
You don’t understand. She just never thought it would impact her personally. Get it?
The leopards don’t recognize citizenship or immigration status, only net worth.
🙃
Some people also visit North Korea. Is that insane too?
Of course.
Are you suggesting it isn’t…???
I’m just thinking that people with extreme tastes might want to visit USA exactly because there’s a good chance you’ll never return.
So? A self-destructive taste isn’t sane.
Fair enough.
yes(???)
So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? A possible answer began to emerge over the weeks she was incarcerated. As Karen got to know the guards at the Northwest ICE Processing Center where she was held, she kept hearing the same thing from them: that ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. “Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,” Karen says.
It’s no secret that the Trump administration has been pouring money into ICE. Its annual budget – $6bn a decade ago – is now $85bn; ICE is now the highest -funded law enforcement agency in the US. Since last August, new recruits can expect to receive a signing-on bonus of up to $50,000. Karen’s experience has left her convinced that ICE agents are being given even more incentives – to arrest and detain anyone they possibly can, even blameless tourists who have all the paperwork they need to be in the US.
Knew they had sign-up bonuses, but had no idea that ICE agents were also given a bonus for locking people up - that’s an absolutely perverse incentive for a job that should be as objective as possible.
No wonder innocent people are getting dragged off to detention centres (or worse), it literally pays for them to shoot now and ask questions later.
Also, the US government has $80 billion to throw at bloodthirsty hounds, but had to send DOGE to scrounge through various agencies to find a few billion? Something doesn’t quite add up there, almost like the incentive wasn’t finding money.
DOGE was to cut agencies tasked with enforcing regulations. Specifically, but not limited to agencies that hurt Elon’s bottom line.
JFC, this makes total sense. They love touting arrest numbers, not deportation numbers. This is how they’re able to make it happen.
Their actual job is to instill fear.
Trump needs his personal army, separated from the justice and military apparatus, if he pays ice to satisfaction he has the material and manpower to fight off a growing rebellion…
The main objective of doge was to export all agency data to thiel et al’s private data banks. Their employees were recruited from those technofascist’s drug and sex fueled parties, as young men, or underage young men, that were groomed for it.
Cutting money was at most secondary, information is power and now thiel and whomever else have more than anyone else.
It’s not just Trump. Americans in general will do anything for money.
Because we need it to meet our basic needs. The other option is death.
So when are countries like the UK (and my own Australia) going to update official government travel advice to warn against travel to America?
They won’t because we are expected to toe the imperial line. We are a vassal state of the US.
It’s batshit that DFAT haven’t issue a travel warning, I agree. There’s warnings for China (reasonable), but damn, I feel no worry about travelling to China, just don’t do anything political.
I’d never in a million years consider travelling to the US.
Like someone else said, there are warnings for the UK. Certainly not a healthy country in 2026, but for the UK to be given a safety warning when the country with literal brownshirts roaming the streets does not is just absurd.
Holy shit we have it at level 1.
https://www.smartraveller.gov.au/destinations/americas/united-states-america
The UK is level 2.
https://www.smartraveller.gov.au/destinations/europe/united-kingdom
That’s gotta be a joke right?
The US Government is quite literally sending bloodthirsty hounds against their own people, and dragging innocent tourists off to detention centres for no reason, yet the UK is rated worse due to the couple of terror attacks we’ve had over the last year??
I think I know where I’d rather take my chances as a tourist. Yikes.
The UK is speedrunning the US to fascism, and they are ahead, even if they don’t have a blowhard running the show, just a traitorous mealy mouthed tool of the oligarchy. Cancelling the magna carta, the right to protest, defenses to decades in prison for protesting, bad faith terror designations by their corrupts lawmakers, a masterbaitorbase, age controls, the last two of which to give Thiel access to everything to make secret social scores to use against the population.
Remember when everyone was up in arms against China for their social credit score? I guess it’s fine as long as it’s administered by a billionaire.
and now they plan on making vpn use illegal without doxxing the user prior to internet use.
I can’t wait for the Fifa world cup to start and see how disastrous that’s going to be, I’m hoping some countries would boycott and not play.
lol no country is not going to send their team, and most of their fans are excited to watch them play, they don’t give a shit about the politics of it.
You think too highly of them.
The last two were in Russia and Qatar. A pattern has already formed.
yeah, as an outside observer who only sees most sports through headlines and conversation i know three things about the sport. lionel messi, 7-1, and the world cup is horribly corrupt.
The 1936 Summer Olympics in Nazi Germany…
man out of all that’s wrong with this I couldn’t imagine how upset I’d be that I’d have wasted vacation time for this, it wouldn’t be the biggest problem but it would be in the back of my head constantly like “wow sure is nice that I took time off work to be grabbed by americia’s new slave catchers”
Well, at least she got the full murica experience. Yellowstone, Vegas, roughed up and thrown in an ICE detention center for 6 weeks…🙃
Authoritourism
Idk who needs to here it but Do Not Come Here. For your own good, cancel plans if you had them. If you have a work event, tell them you feel unsafe (because you sure af will be if you come to a fascist country).
It is not safe.
Google voluntarily gave his info to ice.
The second part of that title isn’t needed in my opinion.
“Don’t go to the us…for a good decade or so. And only then if they realise just how fucked things were during the orange child rapist years.”if the republicans exist as a party I would stay away.
i think even north korea might be safer to go at this point
If NK had enough bribery money, FIFA would already have had it there…
So if I read this right
They left the states and couldn’t return because the guys visa wasn’t valid anymore, but Canada turned them away because of the car.
At that point you should probably apply for asylum now and refuse to go back to where you don’t have valid papers anymore.
Or have the person with no longer valid papers walk through if they’ll let you and the other person go back.
maye with the right kink?
They knew what’s going on in US and still tried to cross the border with invalid visa (she had a valid visa but her husband’s expired). There’s a word for that: idiots.
she had a valid visa
I’m sorry, did you miss this part?
“Don’t worry honey, if they stop us only I will go to the concentration camp. You will continue enjoying your holiday”.
…
“Oh no! They sent both of us to a concentration camp! Who could predicted that? I though ICE is following the law and never abuses their powers. Poor us!”
she knew that international travellers were being locked up in immigration detention centres in the US. “I was aware,” she nods. “But I never thought it would have any impact on my holiday.”
“I am not a dangerous criminal. I didn’t enter the country illegally and I had everything I needed to be there.”
Fuck the Trump administration, but also fuck this privileged bitch in particular
What makes her a privileged bitch? She had a visa, she entered the country legally. In any other non-fascist country this wouldn’t have happened.
She was aware it happened to others and despite evidence to the contrary just bought the US government’s narrative that those all were illegals and criminals.
