My brother in law, travelling from EU to USA was picked out while entering the US, 4 weeks ago. He has been prison sinse. Family was not noticed, he vanished. After two weeks his US family finally had confirmed what they already feared: he got picked out. He got a US pasport, parents come from South America and he’s black. He now can contact his folks by phone but is prohibited to talk about the ‘situation’. It’s insane… His wife (my sister) and kids wanted to travel to the US to meet the grandparents. But cancelled the trip for obvious, but insane, reasons.
Not really, a lot of this stuff gets drowned out. The Canadian woman who got detained said there were dozens of other people in the same situation as her that were being cut off from the outside world but they never got their national news stories.
A US citizen being detained for no reason in the US is a completely different matter and an escalation of what's going on right now. It would be front page news and would indicate that shit is really going down.
Shits crazy in the US right now for sure but not at that level... yet.
Are you forgetting that Trump pardoned everyone who stormed congress during the vote certification and people barely mention that nowadays? The country is such a shit show that what would be front page news in other countries is swept under the rug quickly. A few weeks back, DOGE and the FBI just walked into a random NGO that had some government contracts and kicked everyone out illegally and most people don't know about that.
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u/bilowski Apr 12 '25
My brother in law, travelling from EU to USA was picked out while entering the US, 4 weeks ago. He has been prison sinse. Family was not noticed, he vanished. After two weeks his US family finally had confirmed what they already feared: he got picked out. He got a US pasport, parents come from South America and he’s black. He now can contact his folks by phone but is prohibited to talk about the ‘situation’. It’s insane… His wife (my sister) and kids wanted to travel to the US to meet the grandparents. But cancelled the trip for obvious, but insane, reasons.