A retired British primary school teacher with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE in the US while on holiday.
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US citizen here. Why would anyone from outside this fucked up country run by a racist, fascist, government, knowing that there is a very real possibility of this happening, come here for any reason?
@EricMartin @GossiTheDog I guess it's for the same reason that over a third of Americans didn't vote - the belief that they personally won't be affected.
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US citizen here. Why would anyone from outside this fucked up country run by a racist, fascist, government, knowing that there is a very real possibility of this happening, come here for any reason?
@EricMartin @GossiTheDog
Not me, even for free World Cup tickets + flights & accommodation. -
@fzimper @GossiTheDog We need to put this over all US border crossings.
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@GossiTheDog My guess palantir has monitored his online comment about drumpf the Orange One and sent this information to ice.
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@GossiTheDog I'm astonished about the husband. Travelled to the US with an expired work permit and threw in a few international border crossings just for fun?
@publictorsten You’re astonished that a British man with a British passport was traveling? He wasn’t expecting to re-enter the US, it’s absurd that after being forced to because of Canadian customs he is then incarcerated in the US when he was literally TRYING to leave it.
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@GossiTheDog I'm astonished about the husband. Travelled to the US with an expired work permit and threw in a few international border crossings just for fun?
@publictorsten I'm astonished you think this is in any way okay. Shame on you.
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A retired British primary school teacher with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE in the US while on holiday.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice
@GossiTheDog Until ICE is dismantled it will never be safe to travel to the US. The agency has been unaccountable for a long time before the child rapist
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A retired British primary school teacher with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE in the US while on holiday.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice
@GossiTheDog Retired British primary school teacher ignores warning of other white European tourists locked up by literal Nazis and goes on holiday to the place where the Nazis are locking people up*
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Over the past couple of hundred years we, Europeans, have persuaded a lot of our own idiots to seek happiness in USA. But not all of them could afford the trip back then!
Their children and grand children, and so on (those we're still trying to clean out of our gene pool) are still happily visiting the promised land for vacation!
On a side note:
We don't really mind you keeping them there for a while. I mean, if your REALLY feel like you need to lock someone up...@baardhaveland @EricMartin@mastodon.social @GossiTheDog the gene pool talk is gross when Europe mainly ejected the poor.
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@GossiTheDog I think folk planning on going to support their football teams during the World Cup beginning in June should think hard about whether it is worth the risk. It isn't an easy choice, especially as a Scotland fan, because we don't get to go to the World Cup very often these days.
@IndyRichard @GossiTheDog
"I think folk planning on going to support their football teams during the World Cup beginning in June should think hard about whether it is worth the risk..."
It really, really isn't.
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https://www.thebeaverton.com/2025/06/canadians-travelling-to-the-us-advised-to-not-fucking-do-that/ -
@publictorsten You’re astonished that a British man with a British passport was traveling? He wasn’t expecting to re-enter the US, it’s absurd that after being forced to because of Canadian customs he is then incarcerated in the US when he was literally TRYING to leave it.
@slyborg You've added some details to the story there.
It's possible to leave the US this way, but your car rental company has to do some paper work beforehand. Since this was not the case, he could not enter Canada with his car. Why would that be so? The most plausible explanation: He did want to re-enter the US.
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@GossiTheDog Retired British primary school teacher ignores warning of other white European tourists locked up by literal Nazis and goes on holiday to the place where the Nazis are locking people up*
@Linza
“I knew it was happening but I didn’t think it would happen to ME”
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@slyborg You've added some details to the story there.
It's possible to leave the US this way, but your car rental company has to do some paper work beforehand. Since this was not the case, he could not enter Canada with his car. Why would that be so? The most plausible explanation: He did want to re-enter the US.
@publictorsten It’s stated in the article that he planned to return to the UK to retire, partly out of frustration with being unable to secure permanent residency. I remain astonished that we’re arguing over his itinerary when the issue is that he was imprisoned for more than a month over an expired visa with no criminal history. Deporting the man immediately would have been harsh but understandable, locking him up AND his wife with valid paperwork is inexplicable.
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A retired British primary school teacher with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE in the US while on holiday.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice
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@publictorsten It’s stated in the article that he planned to return to the UK to retire, partly out of frustration with being unable to secure permanent residency. I remain astonished that we’re arguing over his itinerary when the issue is that he was imprisoned for more than a month over an expired visa with no criminal history. Deporting the man immediately would have been harsh but understandable, locking him up AND his wife with valid paperwork is inexplicable.
@slyborg Maybe I should be happy that other people finally begin to see the inexplicable. Like this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alligator_Alcatraz
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A retired British primary school teacher with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE in the US while on holiday.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice
@GossiTheDog How is it possible to elect such a fjott-nisse? Is this really the will of the US ppl? Tragic
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US citizen here. Why would anyone from outside this fucked up country run by a racist, fascist, government, knowing that there is a very real possibility of this happening, come here for any reason?
@EricMartin@mastodon.social
Arrogance / Exceptionalism. Thinking they'll blend in without realising not all Yanks are like that; not to mention that the ones that are don't care if you're a Brit, they have quotas to meet and bonuses to earn.
It is interesting which cases hit the headlines; or do I mean which cases do more people give a crap about?
"Special Relationship" FFS.
Just look at how Duh Fuhrer is trying to screw us over on trade. Now insisting on Chlorinated not Coronation Chicken for example.
AND the wanker appears to ignoring the no fly rule Starmer ordered...
I am looking forward to the shooting down of non compliant US planes for violating our airspace*
@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
*OK, I know, spineless shits over here, but we can hope. The US doesn't blink before shooting down non US aircraft I am given to understand.
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A retired British primary school teacher with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE in the US while on holiday.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice
@GossiTheDog @Gargron never travel to the US, even if they somehow are allowed to elect a new president. 77 million of them voted for this.
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A retired British primary school teacher with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE in the US while on holiday.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice
@GossiTheDog "I was aware" she said. And then decided to visit a dangerous backward third-world shit-hole country anyway.
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A retired British primary school teacher with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE in the US while on holiday.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice
@GossiTheDog They go to the USA, with a tense immigration situation, with an expired work visa. Dumb.
Other cases referred are someone doing domestic work to pay her holidays under a touristic visa (work without permit), other come as tourist with tattoo equipment (to work the ICE supposed, as I would have supposed too), and other overstayed their tourist visa. No wonder they have problems.
The Schengen agreement in Europe has made people dumb?
