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"he's been here too long, keep him here longer!"
The most conservative thing I've read all day
Detaining people isn't free either, we also paid to keep them here longer. The whole thing is immensely stupid.
Only if you believe their words, which you absolutely should not. A for profit prison management company got paid for 100 days detention when they would have gotten 0 if they let this guy leave.
Everything working out as planned.
Private prisons have an incentive to keep people like him in the system as long as possible.
Lives gets destroyed, everyone pay for it, money is diverted from actually useful stuff, but all this is a low price to pay for a handful of mafia bosses to get even richer.
You forget that the camps are private, so they need to keep him there to get paid. 100 days seems like about enough.
Stop traveling to that shithole.
Irish are non-white again. We're going back to the 1800s, baby.
Look up the unjust hangings of Dominic Daley and James Halligan in 1806. There was no evidence whatsoever that they committed the murder they were accused of other than maybe being in the area at the time and even that was based on shaky grounds. The defense even had their closing statement saying that the prosecution had no evidence other than 'aww come on! They're Irish! You know how they're like! Besides, someone has to hang for that murder!'
That's what happens when you visit banana republics
Indeed and spiraling toward a 3rd World dictatorship.
"Armoured cars, tanks and guns! Came to take away our sons! But we must stand behind the men, the men behind the wire!"
Latinos and Irish united in their fight against immigration officials!
Like 80 years ago. Nobody was safe from Nazi German GeStaPo. Why do people expect safety from or accountability of the Nazi American GeStaPo?
Daily reminder (especially to my Canadian homies) for the love of fuck do NOT travel to the US. They have made it clear they dont want visitors and it isnt safe for us to go there.
Do not risk it. Find any other safe country to visit and go there instead. Or stay home and see your own country.
Or if you want to visit North America, may I suggest Canada? Its nice here and we have cool things to see too. Also you wont be detained for no reason and live for months in a cage.
And may I suggest Mexico? It’s a beautiful country full of wonderful food, music, and people. North America is a shit sandwich, but the bread on both ends is quite magnificent.
I know several people with dual citizenship Canadian/U.S. who have moved from the U.S. to Canada in the past several months.
I just figured out a path for me to gain Mexican permanent resident and eventually Mexican citizenship if needed. It will take some time but with how this country is going, My wife and I need an escape route.
My partner and I made the decision to leave the day after inauguration. We're comfortably in Canada now.
Wonder how much it cost to keep him instead of just let him back to Ireland. Bunch of cunts
With these assholes it's not about money, it's about cruelty.
Oh sure, but they'll continually claim until they're blue in the face that everything they do is about money. So they should be continually exposed as the financially irresponsible idiots that they are.
For the people where egregious human rights violations and terrorism aren't deal breakers, wasting money is. Frankly I don't respect their opinion, however, they also vote, therefore their opinion does matter.
Sure it cost the taxpayers something, but that went directly into the pockets of the for-profit prison company. So you see, this is actually great for the economy!
Just stupid all around...
"You overstayed your welcome, buddy. Now instead of letting you go home, we're going to keep you trapped here even longer."
Do you want them to stay or to go? Make up your friggin' mind! 😬
The goal is to make people afraid. Fear is a feature, just like violence.
While profiting off of it. Government contractors were paid for 100 days of related services for this poor fellow.
They're trying to meet quotas, they don't give a shit about anything else.
But at this point why even bother meeting the quotas? Can't they just lie and tell everyone they deported 3 billion immigrants so that the racist rednecks will all cheer and smile?
tbf I‘m glad it doesn’t only happen to people from poor countries
For your own personal safety, never travel to the United States.
Never travel to countries where the secret police just kidnap people off the streets.
Thomas, a 35-year-old tech worker and father of three from Ireland, came to West Virginia
See? That's the problem here.
Really, people, do NOT go to the US.
At least this (probably) white guy, who speaks the same language, got to suffer on taxpayers' dollars. What a relief. /s
You gotta be pretty in love to travel to a backwater nation like the US. Traveling to WV though, that's beyond insanity.
Every country should have travel warnings against visiting the Untied States
And he was locked up before Trump took office.
Nobody is safe from the system if they get pulled into it
This applies to all aspects of the US "justice" system. Once it has a hold of you, it's extremely hard to get out.
While visiting his girlfriend Malone’s family in Savannah, Georgia, Thomas experienced a mental health episode. After a conflict in their hotel room, someone called the police. Though Malone didn’t support the charge, Thomas was arrested for allegedly “falsely imprisoning” her.
Yes, it was before, but, there is a little more to it. It was a mental health episode and the police were called. One would think they would just have an air marshall fly back home with him, But the US is really not good at mental health problems.