I blame the parent. Nobody with the resources necessary for an international vacation has any excuse for being ignorant of the current political state of the US, our government is actively targeting visibly hispanic people regardless of legality and has not been quiet about it. Even if their trio had gone smoothly every dollar they spent here would be indirectly supporting the shit our government is doing. The child had no choice in the matter, the parent was a fucking moron who volunteered their child for a completely avoidable traumatic experience and helped fund Trump’s crimes in the deal.
PurpleGameBoy@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Tourists should avoid the USA (not to blame the tourists in this story, of course)
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
It’s hard for people to believe this kind of crazy though.
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
It shouldn’t be, the evidence has been plentiful and easily available. It’s not particularly crazy either, evil for sure but entirely in line with the interests of our ruling class and extremely historically precedented. Some folks just have to learn the hard way I guess.
insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I get it, but if you pitched this to a movie studio they’d say it was far fetched, so the average person can be forgiven, I think.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Do we know it was a pure tourist visit and they could choose the location? Many state departments are already flagging the US with a state instability warning if not no-go, so I’d assume she (or the husband) was here on business, or because there were circumstances that pushed them.
To be fair, NYC is pretty blue, it’s just the NYPD that has been for decades a threat to the people, especially nonwhites, with Bloomberg’s mayorship taking much of the blame.
Almacca@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
American citizens should be avoiding the USA at this point. No-one is safe.
Witchfire@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I’m an American citizen and I got out. Absolutely zero regrets. Apparently it’s rapidly becoming increasingly common
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Where did you go, if you don’t mind sharing?
match@pawb.social 5 weeks ago
Send help back
Witchfire@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I am using my position to help my local community back home :)
ms_lane@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Please return.
Or at the very least, stop being American.
frostysauce@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Not until we make the police and ICE agents feel unsafe.
ms_lane@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
No, we don’t want American citizens anywhere else in the world, leave them in their containment nation.
They chose, overwhelmingly, the circumstances that they’re in.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
They did not choose overwhelmingly. ~30% chose. And even then, trump did not win the majority of the vote.
Owlboi@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
a third of the country voted for this, another third decided not to vote and thus allowed this.
arrow74@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
I’d say 30% are all for what’s happening and 10% are convinced the dems will put babies into to blenders and will always vote red. The remaining 10% switch their vote back and forth depending on how they feel about the economy. If they think it’s good the will vote for the incumbent, if they think it’s bad they vote for the other canidate. Then there are 2-3% of people that pick a random issue as their focus every year
frostysauce@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Dude, fuck you. I didn’t choose this shit anymore than you did.
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 5 weeks ago
Inaction is a choice
SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Many of us are looking on in horror of what is happening. There is nothing we can do, lest we too be jailed, or worse, killed by the gestapo. Just waiting for them to come for me next. I really need to get a passport.
Just giving a bit of perspective. Fuck the United States.
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
I guess us LGBTQ and black/brown Americans should just put a bullet in our heads right now, then.
ReiRose@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Upvoted bc “containment nation” made me lol. I get the downvotes though, liberalism has been eroding our rights and our will to rebel for a couple of generations now.
Almacca@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
How are we better than them then!?! We should be better than them!
SRo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
It’s true but they hate you for it. The US is lost for the next few decades.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
We can take a few american refugees, but we should limit it to the same measly numbers that the US has been accepting. That would be 50 000 per year.
Over a few millenia we could probably provide refuge for the vulnerable populations in the USA.
0x0@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Americans hardly qualify as “refugees”, please don’t insult those who are.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Not yet. Not most of them.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
Not even Elon Musk himself apparently.