Following GPS to the nearest Costco led a Guatemalan woman and her two U.S. born children to the International bridge where they were detained for a week and now face deportation.
It is really easy to mess up and end up on the Ambassador Bridge. I did it going to the Japanese consulate in Detroit but, luckily, there is a little u-turn place if you notice quickly enough (or at least was… and I’m not sure how legal that u-turn was, but I’m sure they see it all the time).
This is the second story I’ve heard about someone making a wrong turn on a bridge from the U. S. to Canada and being kidnapped by ICE.
It’s not that hard to do. If you miss the sign, you’re heading to Canada. Also, she asked to be directed to the nearest Costco, and the nearest Costco happened to be in Canada.
I guess we’re at a point where the safest thing to do in this situation would be to just abandon your car and walk away. It’s better to sacrifice your car and inconvenience traffic than to risk your life interacting with ICE.
I mean, I know other drivers would be pissed, but so be it. In the (hopefully) unlikely event anyone here finds themselves in this situation, don’t buy into the sunk cost fallacy - just cut your losses and keep yourself safe.
You might have to lie and say it was stolen if the cops ask why your car is parked on the highway
Might as well. It’s still safer than driving right up to people who will arrest you, and worse.
I’ve done this. Didn’t have cash for the toll.
I could imagine ICE intentionally covering up signs to induce more mistakes like this.
Fuck America.
Fuck Trump.
He’s not doing it alone. The Republic administration and all its enablers, corporate and private from money and votes, is endorsing this behavior.
Fuck MAGA.
People give trump too much credit. There’s basically a living mutant organism made up of millions of evil people fucking America/humanity, but people just blame trump and think things are going to go away when he’s gone.
Of course those people existed before, and were just as evil as they are now. But before Trump they didn’t get to act on their evil traits. With him on top, and more and more like minded in top positions, they can finally act with impunity. They don’t need to fear consequences anymore. And that is absolutely related to Trump. So fuck Trump.
That. Trump himself is a problem since he gave a (somehow) respectable face to the movement, but he’s merely a symptom. The disease is much bigger than just him.
As long as extremist right wing exists this type of evil gets normalized because being a piece of shit is a right of passage.
Fuck the Confederacy
Every country has that mutant organism. It’s a global fucking problem, but yeah, let’s laugh at other people’s misfortune. Guess what organism you are part of….
Who’s laughing?
You laugh at the misfortune of the west because you think they deserve it. While you might have a point, it isn’t the entire population that should be punished.
Fuck the USA. America is a continent with many nice countries.
This is getting comical. I’m waiting for the American citizen that gets deported for spitting on the ground. He wouldn’t even be a law breaker, but the orange idiot would just stare blankly and say they’re nothing they can do.
Wrong turn to Costco? believe it or not, El Salvador!
Spitting on the ground is actually illegal in a TON of places.
At what point did doing something illegal become grounds for sending someone to a death camp without a trial?
Somewhere between January 20, 2025 and today.
People spit on the ground indoors where I work. It’s weird.
Where tf do you work?
Chucky Cheese
Oh, of course hahah
Waiting for the president to announce himself as an Elder Imam.
Shoulda kept going.
Was she here legally or illegally?
Without due process, there is no way to determine her legal status.
Robinson declined to release her name or age, only confirming that she has been in the U.S. about six years, but has no legal status. Her daughters were born in the U.S. Their father lives in Detroit.
From what the article says, it seems like that should read, “Being in the country illegally has Detroit woman facing deportation”.
there often is no path to legality, and she is the caregiver of her American-born children.
There shouldn’t be a path to legality - that just incentivizes more illegal immigration, because they know they’ll get residency eventually.
To be clear, I think what’s going on in El Salvador is abhorrent, and that at this point ICE is basically the Gestapo, but that doesn’t mean that countries shouldn’t have the right to decide who is and who isn’t allowed across their borders.
If I illegally crossed the border into Canada because I don’t like what Trump is doing, for example, they have every right to kick me out.
I’m a legal immigrant (to the USA), there absolutely should be a legal path to emigrate to any and all countries.
The only difference between me and her is that I could afford not to work for the 7 months between landing in the country and my green card arriving in the mail, as well as the roughly $10k in fees, and I don’t have kids so being apart from my (then fiancee, now) wife for 14 months while the paperwork went through was also not such a big burden.
Having the privilege to endure those hardships does not constitute the entirety of being a good citizen.
I fully agree with a legal path to emigrate to any and all countries, but only if done ahead of time and through the proper legal channels. (And it goes without saying that once those channels have been gone through, resident status should not be revoked without serious reason to do so, followed by due process.)
Breaking a country’s laws by entering illegally is already serious evidence against your being a good citizen; plus, regardless of how good a citizen you are, countries have a right to decide which non-citizens are or are not allowed to enter their countries in the first place, based on any and all conditions they alone deem relevant.
If you break in to my house and then ask me for a job, even if you’d be the best worker in the world, I’m still gonna respond with, “Get the hell out of my house”, and I’d be right to do so.
It’s a misdemeanor though in line with being drunk at Kroger or crossing through someone’s garden without permission.
Regardless of the severity of the offense, sovereign nations ultimately have the right to decide who is or is not allowed into their countries.
If someone finds you trespassing in their garden, they make you leave. If you’re drunk in Kroger, once again, they make you leave. This is perfectly in keeping with the nature of the crime - if you’re in a place where you’re not allowed to be, including nations, you have to leave.
There should be a rule by which if you are in a country without documentation and then you leave the country and try to return, they can’t bust you for undocumented entry if you only left due to a goof.
What about a law that they can’t kidnap you and deport you to a death camp without a trial?
We have that already.
I dont think we have, or rather, it is superceded by other rulings, probably since 9/11
