James Gleick@gleick@mas.to
Your taxpayer dollars at work: New Zealand woman living and working LEGALLY in Washington state, snatched up with her 6-year-old son, transported to Texas, and imprisoned there.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/13/new-zealand-woman-six-year-old-son-ice-detention-us-ntwnfb?CMP=share_btn_url
divVerent@divVerent@misskey.de
@gleick@mas.to Why does anyone even want this to happen? This is wrong on so many levels, even MAGA should oppose this.
She had clearly no intent to deceive and defraud, but may have fallen for one of many traps in the US immigration systems, which is one of the most difficult to navigate worldwide.
Why "detain" (actually arrest) such a person, pay for transporting them, feeding them etc. - when they could have just refused her at the border and let her sort out things with the US embassy in Canada and/or arrange for transport to New Zealand herself?
This is just as unreasonable as it gets.
