Reading the past 10 pages or so of this thread on the Canadian woman held for 12 days, I thought this article she wrote was important to post.
Couple comments:
!. I fully support the MAGA movement. People that break our law by coming here illegally MUST be detained and deported. Those overstaying visas need to be dealt with on a case by case basis, in a timely manner, with compassion for honest mistakes.
2. INDIVIDUAL rights are more important than Group rights or objectives.
3. Uncomfortable detention for criminal (aside from illegal entry itself) illegal aliens is fine and dandy. Others need to have some level of decent food and housing until deportation.
4. ELIMINATE, or greatly regulate PRIVATE Prisons that have HUGE incentives to delay release, or deportation that lowers their headcounts, and subsequent State and Federal money to keep people there.
5. This article is almost exclusively from the woman's perspective, but it's hard not to be angry with what she went through, and empathetic towards those INDIVIDUALS caught up in this bureaucracy. Even those that purposefully entered illegally.
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky.
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped | US immigration | The Guardian