Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.
Guys, I’m starting to think maybe electing Trump was a bad idea…
Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.
She said Schmidt told her immigration agents pressured him to give up his green card. She said he was placed on a mat in a bright room with other people at the airport, with little food or water, suffered sleep deprivation, and was denied access to his medication for anxiety and depression.
“He hardly got anything to drink. And then he wasn’t feeling very well and he collapsed,” said Senior.
He was transported by ambulance to Mass General Hospital. He didn’t know it at the time, but he also had influenza.
Other countries need to start issuing advisories against traveling to the USA. And residents of the USA need to understand that it’s not safe for them to try to re-enter their country.
I agree. I know there are tens of thousands of international travelers entering the US daily and he was a single case, but the question remains, why? The article mentions a DUI on his record from a decade ago as well as a marijuana possession charge that was dismissed when legalization passed. So, is that literally it? It’s fucking insane that they are violating his rights like this and fucking torturing him.
Being that he renewed his Green Card recently, it would make no sense that his very minor record would pose any issue, otherwise the government could have denied his renewal.
Do we call this full-blown Nazism yet or do we wait until the first concentration camp opens on US soil?
No, because they’re not flying flags with swastikas, and most importantly, they’re not being cartoonishly evil (have some badly done crime statistics on hand to wave around). /s
There have been concentration camps for a while now.. Here’s a list of addresses that ICE kindly provided.
It’ll take more than that. America had concentration camps for the Japanese while we were actively fighting the Nazis in WWII and their own camps.
You mean what Guantanamo has already been repurposed for?
That’s why I wrote “on US soil”. US concentration camps have long existed outside the US.
The few concentration camps that have existed on US soil in the past have been closed.
But not used for Americans and legal US residents to my knowledge. Yet……
The second sentence of the Wikipedia article literally says about 2/3 were American citizens.
The section on ‘Exclusion, removal, and detention’ says “[s]omewhere between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry were subject to this mass exclusion program, of whom about 80,000 Nisei (second generation) and Sansei (third generation) were U.S. citizens.”
So yes, second and third generation Japanese Americans, natural born citizens, were held in American concentration camps.
TIL 😣
George Takei (Idk how to spell his last name) was in one as a child. There are people alive today that were in American Concentration Camps. Its not some long distant past.
This makes me so worried to travel out of the US. The only “papers” I have of being a citizen is my passport. And I fully expect my immigration status will be questioned by the police and ICE.
You should be fine as long as you don’t intend to return the US ever again.
That’s the new American Dream.
smh back in my day we had to send people to Cuba before we tortured them.
This is insane.
Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.
That might be a sentence. Needs more “and” though.
On my stance of immigration, I only wanted illegals out of my country. This here is a green card holder, a renewed one at that, being the one getting all of his shit ruined for no reason.
I can’t really lower the bar any lower as to how unpatriotic I feel towards USA at this time.
I’m curious for everyone downvoting, what do you want for immigration reform?
I don’t think open borders could work, and if we don’t have open borders, we need some mechanism to enforce our immigration policy.
Note: this question stems from the parent comment, I know the article is about a green card holder. I also find the way he was treated as inhumane for any person regardless of immigration status.
I do not think you will get an honest answer because people are just fueled by emotion and triggered. The biggest double standard in regards to immigration is that the US should be open border but everyone else should continue to look down at Americans as tourists and treat them as such. While restricting americans and being stingy at them when they arrive to their country and assimilate immediately.
But when we do it then it is xenophobic and people carting out the old “your country has always been ran by immigrants” and blah blah blah. Two faced people I swear.
I don’t even know if I’ve heard many people actually calling for open borders. However, it’s one of the major policy areas that I don’t really know what the democratic party’s stance really is. Maybe I just need to read more into it.
From your response I am assuming you voted for Trump. If so may I ask where you got your i formation from regarding all his policies leading up to the election?
I assume you’re upset because this guy is white.
Every American paying tax has blood on their hands when it comes to America’s wrong doings.
It’s like paying a hitman to do the dirty work and then pretending “no they didn’t die because of me.”
Paying taxes isn’t a choice*
*for poor people
If taxes aren’t paid people go to prison… So what’s realistic, non prison, way people can be innocent with this perspective?
This is an awfully dumb take.
There’s a lot of nations and people who would agree. In fact Canada is coming close to it already.
