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    ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone.

    There you have it.

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      Yup. This is by no means the first allegation they get paid bounties. It was being said everywhere just prior to the shootings of Mrs. Good and Mr. Pretti last month.

      Perverse incentives breed perverse behaviour.

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    Ask yourself would you go to Nazi Germany back in the forties? If no, then don’t come to Shitler 2.0’s version.

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    We have the World Cup this year and the Olympics in 2028. I can see competitors being detained, let alone ordinary fans. It’s all going to kick off and I can’t wait to see how the world’s media will try to sanewash it.

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      Tbh I dont think they’ll even try to sanewash it anymore. How is it that the rest of the world is even contemplating taking part in these games in the first place? How is it that the emperor got the 2 most famous sporting events to be hosted in his empire in the first place? Nah, we don’t ask questions and just suck up the slop.

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        The last world cups were in Russia and Qatar. Not like those are better then the Us, just less powerful. Olympia was decent though.

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          At the time, were those countries assisting a genocide, enabling peadophiles and kidnapping heads of state? It’s scraping the barrel, but tbh I can’t think of a worse place than USA.

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    Why would anyone in the tight state of mind travel to that shit hole?

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      I have a brother (and his group of friends) who decided to go, and they are full into their sunken cost fallacy at the moment. It would be very tough to reason them out.

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        That doesn’t mean they must go there. Better use the money for the ticket to get your relatives out before it’s too late.

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        Then they will have to travel the other way, which doesn’t have the risk of being detained illegally by ICE.
        Or meet up in Canada, if they live close to Canada.

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        Refuse it.
        At a very minimum there should be a huge risk compensation for traveling for work to USA right now.
        6 weeks detained by ICE is no holiday, the conditions are horrible, and you will more likely than not be denied medical service if you need it.

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          Exactly. Imagine if a job forced people to travel to Russia for “work”.

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            Honestly, i don’t know if wouldn’t feel less worried about going to russia lol. Might be news bias but still.

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          6 weeks detained by ICE is no holiday, the conditions are horrible, and you will more likely than not be denied medical service if you need it.

          They did state that one person had an expired visa in the article. Absolutely not defending anything ICE did to the traveling couple, but it was not just being randomly picked up and carried away like headline and summary suggests.

          Refuse it

          I am strongly considering that anyway…

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            She absolutely had a VALID Visa, and the headline is correct. Just because her husband’s Visa had expired , doesn’t justify locking them both up for 6 weeks.
            She was locked up with a valid Visa.
            Also the story about the Koreans that were arrested, when they were there preparing workers to work on a factory Hyundai was making, creating thousands of jobs, show that you are in no way safe as a foreigner coming to work in USA. You are actually more vulnerable, as they may disregard that foreigners working there are actually there legally.

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              She did but her husband did not. Detaining her for traveling with him is nuts. Detaining him for that is also nuts but another story. The point being: there were “irregularities” involved. I am not saying it’s not insane but also not completely random.

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                there were “irregularities” involved

                Just dont. This is that ‘probable cause’ bullshit all over again. It’s like saying, “well, he did have a habit of looking out of windows. Maybe he was just standing there and lost his balance.” I think we’ve seen enough to not believe a single thing that comes out of that failed nation.