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   Madeleine Morris (remittancegirl@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 16:26:52 JST Madeleine Morris

   What is really indicative about this case is the lack of measuredness with which these people are being treated.

   People have mixups with their visas and the conditions of their visas all the time, all over the world. Detaining someone for over 2 weeks, chaining them like a criminal, and holding them incommunicado - so that their family doesn’t even know if they’re on the plane out… is the most obscene over-reaction.

   It tells you that terror and cruelty IS the objective. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly67j35y99o

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     Petra van Cronenburg (naturemc@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 21:28:16 JST Petra van Cronenburg

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     @Remittancegirl Plus what happens in fascist systems: Sadism becomes socially acceptable. From then on, certain jobs attract sadists. They are rewarded. And at some point they start to take action against their own people.

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     Madeleine Morris (remittancegirl@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 21:28:18 JST Madeleine Morris

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     From the pov of US Immigration, I guess the point is to have all these people telling horrific stories of their treatment as a cautionary message about visa conditions.

     But what it does is make many thousands of the kind of tourists they’d like to see visit the US say: ugh, maybe we go to the South of France this year?

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