<![CDATA[Don't visit the #USA.]]>Don't visit the . A French woman, aged 86, finally arrived back in France thanks to help from the embassy. "Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé was arrested in her nightgown at the home she shared with her late husband, a retired US army captain" by ICE and imprisoned in a camp. Arriving, "she was still dressed in her detention uniform of orange shoes, sweatpants and a grey sweater covered in stains and holes. ... in a state of shock and exhausted after her ordeal."

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‘Maman is finally free!’: French widow, 86, flies home after ICE detention ordeal

Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé, who moved to the US to marry a GI she met in the 1950s, was arrested in her nightgown at their home

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the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/461f73b3-cab5-4412-87e2-dd88fac0ee9a/don-t-visit-the-usa.RSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 02:39:44 GMTFri, 17 Apr 2026 18:45:19 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Don't visit the #USA. on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:15:00 GMT]]>@NatureMC “The cruelty is the point.”

—Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 2018

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/the-cruelty-is-the-point/572104/

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.bau-ha.us/users/raganwald/statuses/116421643492742668https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.bau-ha.us/users/raganwald/statuses/116421643492742668Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:15:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Don't visit the #USA. on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:59:05 GMT]]>@NatureMC how awful. I visited over a decade ago on a business trip and ended up getting stopped at the airport, taken to a side room and strip-searched because they didn't like the seams in the jeans I wore and thought I was carrying drugs. I think the guards just wanted to grope and check out my underwear. That (and having to suffer a visit to a gun range) put me off ever going again.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://writing.exchange/users/Emmacox/statuses/116421580942281971https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://writing.exchange/users/Emmacox/statuses/116421580942281971Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:59:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Don't visit the #USA. on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:48:11 GMT]]>@NatureMC yes, we are a sick country destined to fall. Think about it this way: The USA was founded on: White supremacy, Genocide, Slavery, and religious fascism. How the hell does anyone not see the repercussions that would surely be coming? A country that starts this way will also end this way.

I just hope that our fall doesn't take everyone else down.

But at this point I spit on my citizenship, and dare them to deport me.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://turtleisland.social/users/csgraves/statuses/116421538043611882https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://turtleisland.social/users/csgraves/statuses/116421538043611882Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:48:11 GMT