Maddad ☑
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It's just not America anymore...
Welcome to the largest 3rd world tinpot dictatorship in the world. 😡
Sarah Shaw, 33, and her six year-old were detained by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on 24 July when she drove her two eldest children to Vancouver airport in British Columbia for a direct flight to New Zealand to visit their grandparents on a holiday.
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#tRump
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/australasia/new-zealand-woman-detained-ice-immigration-b2806701.html
Maddad ☑️@maddad@mastodon.world
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However, the mother and son were detained when they tried to cross the border to re-enter the US, where she was staying for over three years and is working as a youth counsellor at a juvenile detention facility in Washington.
“They are confined in horrible, isolated conditions with extremely limited access to communicate with legal counsel and bordering abuse,” her friend Victoria Besancon, who is trying to raise money to secure her release, said.