For roughly 100 days, Thomas says he faced harsh detention conditions, despite agreeing to deportation
Thomas, a 35-year-old tech worker and father of three from Ireland, came to West Virginia to visit his girlfriend last fall. It was one of many trips he had taken to the US, and he was authorized to travel under a visa waiver program that allows tourists to stay in the country for 90 days.
He had planned to return to Ireland in December, but was briefly unable to fly due to a health issue, his medical records show. He was only three days overdue to leave the US when an encounter with police landed him in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) custody.
From there, what should have been a minor incident became a nightmarish ordeal: he was detained by Ice in three different facilities, ultimately spending roughly 100 days behind bars with little understanding of why he was being held – or when he’d get out.
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And folks here in the US are making jokes about the FBI demanding polygraphs and loyalty tests, overlooking the fact that this is happening (along with the vulgar overfunding of ICE) in anticipation of a greater and more extended fascist crackdown. It’s the deliberate removal of any conscience from our governing system, and we all can look at history and understand why that’s happening and what it means for the future.
Just don’t come here.
Guess the “Luck of the Irish” ran out
fun-ny…?
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Indeed and spiraling toward a 3rd World dictatorship.
Irish are non-white again. We’re going back to the 1800s, baby.
Look up the unjust hangings of Dominic Daley and James Halligan in 1806. There was no evidence whatsoever that they committed the murder they were accused of other than maybe being in the area at the time and even that was based on shaky grounds. The defense even had their closing statement saying that the prosecution had no evidence other than ‘aww come on! They’re Irish! You know how they’re like! Besides, someone has to hang for that murder!’
tbf I‘m glad it doesn’t only happen to people from poor countries
Like 80 years ago. Nobody was safe from Nazi German GeStaPo. Why do people expect safety from or accountability of the Nazi American GeStaPo?
For your own personal safety, never travel to the United States.
Never travel to countries where the secret police just kidnap people off the streets.
It is justification of budget. They are apprehended criminals as long as they are on the books.
Well, maybe he can become the modern Brian Boru and kick some medieval ass in the US — apparently, they can’t defend themselves against the tyranny of the savages.
Every country should have travel warnings against visiting the Untied States
Canada doesn’t even have any new warnings. They have the regular “gun ownership” and stuff they’ve had for years, but not a single word about the new administration. US travel is still listed as “green”. Travel to the UK is “yellow” for fuck’s sake.
Yes, according to the Canadian government, it is less safe to travel to the UK than it is to the US. And that’s after admitting that about 55 Canadian citizens are in US custody at any given time.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadians-ice-detention-1.7577584
isnt carney currently cozying up more and more to the right.
Our government is failing in their responsiblity on this. Makes my blood boil that they still are walking on eggshells with the us.
Agreed. They’re neglecting their duty to warn us of the dangers of traveling to the US.
I fear unless something is done that Carney will go down in history as a modern day Chamberlain.
Ridiculous
“he’s been here too long, keep him here longer!”
The most conservative thing I’ve read all day
You forget that the camps are private, so they need to keep him there to get paid. 100 days seems like about enough.
Detaining people isn’t free either, we also paid to keep them here longer. The whole thing is immensely stupid.
Only if you believe their words, which you absolutely should not. A for profit prison management company got paid for 100 days detention when they would have gotten 0 if they let this guy leave.
Everything working out as planned.
Lives gets destroyed, everyone pay for it, money is diverted from actually useful stuff, but all this is a low price to pay for a handful of mafia bosses to get even richer.
Private prisons have an incentive to keep people like him in the system as long as possible.
The Irish were second class citizens when segregation was a thing. This makes sense, I you don’t think too hard.
You gotta be pretty in love to travel to a backwater nation like the US. Traveling to WV though, that’s beyond insanity.
Blame it to the country roads, I heard they take you there.
Love makes you do crazy things, I suppose.
Well, as they say: “a single cunt hair’ll pull a battleship across the desert.” Pardon my vulgarity
You can say “battleship” here. It’s fine.
Have you ever been to WV? It is incredibly beautiful.
Yes. Visually it’s ok. Just don’t talk to the inhabitants or try to get educated in one of their schools and if you need to go to a hospital I recommend having one of those helicopter insurance plans that people get when they visit the Congo.
Mostly fair :(. Too bad, since WV used to be full of working class heroes.
Stop traveling to that shithole.
