Let's be honest, the thing that we find appalling about this story of a middle-aged white British woman being locked up for weeks by ICE isn't the fact that she was locked up; it's that it can happen to a white middle-aged British woman.
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Let's be honest, the thing that we find appalling about this story of a middle-aged white British woman being locked up for weeks by ICE isn't the fact that she was locked up; it's that it can happen to a white middle-aged British woman.
Immigration services across the West have been cruel for a very long time¹, but just not to people who look like this or come from here.
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¹ ICE has got much worse recently
‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks
Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone’
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
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Let's be honest, the thing that we find appalling about this story of a middle-aged white British woman being locked up for weeks by ICE isn't the fact that she was locked up; it's that it can happen to a white middle-aged British woman.
Immigration services across the West have been cruel for a very long time¹, but just not to people who look like this or come from here.
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¹ ICE has got much worse recently
‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks
Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone’
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
@davidnjoku it's definitely a signal though, if they're doing that, what the hell are they doing to their usual victims by now?
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Let's be honest, the thing that we find appalling about this story of a middle-aged white British woman being locked up for weeks by ICE isn't the fact that she was locked up; it's that it can happen to a white middle-aged British woman.
Immigration services across the West have been cruel for a very long time¹, but just not to people who look like this or come from here.
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¹ ICE has got much worse recently
‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks
Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone’
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
@davidnjoku I’m afraid I have absolutely no sympathy for this woman. The opening paragraph is her saying she knew it was happening but didn’t think it would happen to her.
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