Summary
Jasmine Mooney, a 35-year-old Canadian woman, has been detained in U.S. immigration facilities since March 3 after attempting to enter with an incomplete Trade NAFTA work visa application.
She was initially held at San Ysidro border crossing before being transferred in chains to detention centers in San Diego and Arizona.
Her mother, Alexis Eagles, reports inhumane conditions including overcrowded concrete cells with constant lighting and inadequate facilities.
Business partner BJ McCaslin called the situation a “nightmare” while Global Affairs Canada confirmed they’re aware but unable to intervene in U.S. immigration matters.
That and threatening to eliminate our country altogether. We’re not really feeling the “allies” thing these days. I fairly often visit the USA, but I’m rethinking that now, along with many other Canadians. And I’m taking my money out of the USA too, wherever possible.
If I was a foreigner, I would not visit the US at all right now.
I am a foreigner and I won’t anymore. Used to go to Florida during autumn vacation. Now we’ll just go to Italy or Spain. No Jetlag and the Flights are cheaper as well
As a Californian why even go to Florida to begin with, seriously there are infinitely better places in Mexico alone not even factoring in the Caribbean or Central America.
The climate of the Carribeans with the (relative) safety of the US. That’s all there is to it.
Also we don’t like it when you’re in these Hotels for tourists from rich countries where your meal costs more than the staff earns. It just feels wrong. And inside you have this completely artificial experience that shatters as soon as you leave the hotel area. It’s just not relaxing and morally wrong.
Also the Reason why we’re staying in Europe next year despite loving the carribean climate.
I was thinking of the more rural portions of Baja and less touristy portions of Belize, but then again my kin have always preferred the risks associated staying away from corpo crap. My grandfather used to train jump down to Mexicali and Tijuana for dinner for context of what I think of as a good time. Is it really a road trip if ya don’t nearly get shanked at a rural Nevadan gas station.
Yeah we don’t really like those “corpo crap” holidays as well (if “corpo crap” means “classical commercial tourist destinations”). We prefer to go somewhere smaller away from all the stress and pickpockets. Rent a Hotelroom or small vacation-house and explore the place in our own pace.
But again, we’re pretty risk-averse. Rome was already stressful for us because we were always afraid of getting pickpocketed. I couldn’t imagine going to a country that isn’t politically stable. I just couldn’t relax.
So yeah, we don’t like that “corpo crap” either, but we also are pretty risk-averse. That’s why we usually vacate in regions that are stable and pretty rich (similar Level to Switzerland) and not too touristy. We’re a difficult clientele, I know ;PP
Ah I see, that’s frankly an alien concept to me. Risks like that don’t really factor in for various reasons, I have legit wandered into VERY ghetto areas with zero care because I saw a sandwich place and was hungry. But hey you do you friend, even if your care for safety may as well be akin to a strange cultural custom to me
I wouldn’t visit them after, it’s obvious most Americans are okay and happy to sit down and accept this.
Most Americans don’t KNOW about this shit. Most of us get their news from Fox and they’re not saying anything negative about the administration. Except for sometimes having a token liberal on a talk show get shouted down by the five hosts.
Fox broke records with 4.8M viewers out of a country of 340m.
Most of you get your news from social media sharing.
OK, still most of us have no idea what is going on. They see nothing but stuff supporting the administration. Cable news and social media are all arms of state media. Propaganda is a hell of a drug.
Now, those Americans that have no desire to hear anything critical of their views… I can blame indoctrination but I can also blame the masses of this country.
Most of us are NOT okay with this.
The government created media infrastructure to isolate people from each other so most of us would not find out. It’s like the Matrix.
A lot of us know and are trying to do things about it.
Many of us would rather fight for Canada than against. Don’t fret the threats. Likely a lot of people, even some who voted for tRump, would be done defending this administration and maybe we’d see that well armed militia we keep hearing about!
They will quite literally do anything for him. I’m so sorry.