An American citizen says he and his wife were detained for hours by U.S. border agents when they returned to the United States after a short trip to Canada.
Bachir Atallah told CNN he and his wife, Jessica, were driving back into the U.S. Sunday evening after visiting family in Canada for the weekend when U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents stopped them for a secondary inspection at the Highgate Springs checkpoint in Vermont.
Atallah, who is originally from Lebanon, said he was told to park his Range Rover and hand over his keys. When he asked the officer why, the officer placed his hand on his gun and told him to exit his vehicle, Atallah said. He said he was then handcuffed and led into a cell, where his belongings were confiscated. He said his wife was put into a cell across from his.
“Seeing my wife’s mascara running because she was crying, it was heartbreaking,” Atallah said. “It wasn’t humane.”
Yeah, I think I know why they detained him.
Fuck this country.
He also voted for trump
If he did, then I guess he’s having the day he voted for. But I still detest that I live in the kind of country that would do this shit.
Absolutely, I would hate it where I am if it happened here
First they came for…
Move up the list.
They came for…
They are coming for us all. Act accordingly.
If a country claim you have nukes, you have to acquire them quickly.
If a government claims you are a terrorist, then become what they are claiming.
But not even the OK half of that chart is set in stone unless you have an obviously American surname like Smith or Jones. You could be a white fifth generation American with a surname that sounds remotely middle Eastern, east European, etc. and you could be in for a rude awakening…
Or if they think you may have said something vaguely critical of dear leader online.
We all knew Trump was a dictator, he said so himself. I did not expect this level of buy in from the rest of the country though.
They detained a white German tourist trying to enter with a German passport and valid visa for several weeks, while he begged them to just let him book the next flight back to Germany.
It has never been this explicit.
Well since the 90s anyway.
That depends how you count. Guantanamo Bay was used after 9/11 and many or most of the people who were locked up there didn’t commit any kind of crime. Although, I suppose most of them were not kidnapped on US soil, so it’s not quite the same of course.