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[–] 27 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    A lot of people have relatives who live there.

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  • [–] 20 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    "Here, come live with me in my tiny flat. I can sleep in the bathtub."

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    A bathtub might very well be better than whatever Trump's goons are setting up in all those warehouses they are currently renting all over the US...

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    And their assets? And their work visa? Language? Cultural differences?

    There is hardly any money for common people to take off work to protest let alone to move countries.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    I will need to travel there for work next month 🥲

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  • [–] 22 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    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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