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Ricardo Prada Vásquez, a 32-year-old Venezuelan immigrant legally residing in the United States, has apparently been disappeared to El Salvador’s notorious Center for the Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT) after mistakenly turning onto the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit, Michigan.

The bridge, one of North America’s busiest international crossings, links Detroit with Windsor, Ontario. Due to the complexity of nearby highways, even local residents occasionally take the wrong ramp. For Prada, this innocent mistake led to arrest, imprisonment, and deportation—culminating in his disappearance into a foreign prison.

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[–] BenjiRenji@feddit.org 49 points 2 days ago (8 children)

US immigration was unreasonably harsh and unforgiving before, but paired with the possibility to send people to a concentration camp without due process makes this fact a lot more scary. Yeah, they could get you in serious trouble for minor mistakes, but they couldn't ruin or even take your life that easily before.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 17 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Which is why if i were a foreign tourist, i would avoid America completely.

I suspect we'll still see some foreign tourists this summer, because they've already bought tickets and made reservations, and every place else is booked now, and it will be difficult to make last minute changes.

There will still be a drop in foreign visitors this summer, but next summer? Foreign tourists will be almost non-existent. All we will get are those wierdos who specifically seek out dangerous places to visit, as if we are war zone.

Who knows? Maybe by next summer we will be.

[–] BenjiRenji@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There already has been a significant drop in tourists just in the last months. If things escalate, I bet your prediction becomes entirely true.

[–] Willy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

if things escalate? heheh. sad face.

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