Mother and child held in notorious Rio Grande Valley detention centre despite presenting visa, family says

Mother and child held in notorious Rio Grande Valley detention centre despite presenting visa, family says

A Canadian mother and her seven-year-old daughter, who has autism, have been detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Texas since Saturday, family members have said.

Relatives of Tania Warner and her daughter Ayla Lucas say they were detained unlawfully. They are uncertain about what problem ICE found with their immigration paperwork.

Tania Warner and her daughter are both Canadians, with Warner originally from British Columbia. The Canadian broadcaster CTV News reported that they are being held at the notorious Rio Grande Valley Central processing centre in McAllen, Texas.

Warner, who is said to have moved to the US five years ago, lives in Kingsville, Texas, with her husband, Edward Warner, a US citizen.

      • Soulg@ani.socialEnglish
        63·
        1 month ago

        Meh the US hate on this platform is supercharged so it’ll just keep going like this

        I mean some parts of it are valid but people are just terrible people sometimes

      • cecilkorik@piefed.caEnglish
        22·
        1 month ago

        How much do you want to bet that her husband voted for Trump? She probably would’ve too.

          • cecilkorik@piefed.caEnglish
            24·
            1 month ago

            Do you know what “how much do you want to bet” implies? Should I imply it harder? Do you need your rhetorical question answered? I’m just curious.

            Seriously though, of course I don’t know, but I do have a real funny intuition about this sort of thing that works in some really interesting ways. Sometimes it’s wrong, granted, but a lot of the time it’s right.

            There’s just something about the level of “surprise” they seem to be exhibiting in their comments about what happened to them. I feel like people who are more aware of what ICE is and has been doing are likely going to sound somewhat less surprised than the people who voted for it thinking it would only happen to brown people and not to them.

              • cecilkorik@piefed.caEnglish
                12·
                1 month ago

                Does it reek of anger? Is that the something else? Because I’m pretty fucking angry about what ICE is doing, and I find it pretty hard to believe that any people (who have some level of consciousness and aren’t MAGA) in Texas, literally a border state with the second highest number of immigrants in the entire US, don’t have any clue that ICE is regularly arresting people who have valid work permits and visa, were the first few hundred thousand not a clue?

                In my experience, the people who are surprised about this tend to be the people who knew it was happening (how can you NOT know it’s happening at this point?) but just never thought it would actually happen to them.

                Likewise, the surprise here reeks of something else to me. The surprise reeks of “How could this happen to me? I’m white”