American Border Detentions
🇨🇦 Canada is really pissed off. Many are in shock, especially our Canadian tourist detained by ICE. [my post: U.S. is Detaining Visitors]. The good news is that Alexis Eagles, mother of detained Jasmine Mooney, reports that Jasmine is finally home. A user on Bluesky has been tracking incidents.
1. Assistant professor on an H-1B visa from 🇱🇧 Lebanon
2. A Green Card holder from 🇩🇪 Germany living in New Hampshire
3. Two tourists from 🇩🇪 Germany
4. Business consultant from 🇨🇦 Canada, Jasmine Mooney (home after 2 weeks)
5. Student from 🇸🇾 Syria with Green Card
6. Tourist from 🇩🇪 Germany on B2 visa, detained, degraded and deported
7. Tourist from 🇬🇧 UK, Becky Burke cartoonist
8. Fulbright student from 🇮🇳 India
9. Cree composer, Andrew Balfour, from 🇨🇦 Canada, denied entry to perform at Carnegie Hall.
10. LGBTQ asylum seeker from Venezuela 🇻🇪
11. A pair of musicians from N.S. were detained. A 🇨🇦 touring folk duo, Cassie and Maggie MacDonald, with friends and family in U.S., stopped by arrogant state troopers. Worried about them pushing fentanyl.
12. French researcher detained March 9th.
🇩🇪 Germany has travel warnings for LGBTQ+ travelers going to the U.S.
Two more people with valid passports, have been detained in the U.S. I am posting this here, because I know that Americans aren't getting this news, judging by my small blog readership. Foreign governments cannot do anything. More snowbirds are selling property in Florida. Fewer Canadians (↓ 40%) are traveling to the U.S. In normal times, when Americans weren't afraid of others, people with VISA issues would simply be turned away and sent home. Now they are arrested, and dumped in a for-profit jail.
Even Americans are being targeted. He is doing it by invoking the rarely-used Alien Enemies Act of 1798.
If it was about money:
🇨🇦 Buy Canadian
🛒Canadians are roaming grocery store aisles, reading labels to figure out country origins. One consumer advocate has been advocating that we turn packages or cans upside down to show other shoppers that these are US products. It sure saves people time as we avoid them.
The administration is getting away with it using a 1798 law that dates back to old wars.
Social Security Cuts
This poor man in Seattle lost his Nov, Dec., Jan., and Feb. Social Security payments. Once you are declared dead, you cannot apply for a loan as they eliminate his credit rating. He says the phone calls (hours waiting) and then the line ups to clear it up take hours with employee cuts.
