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.

  • BigMacHole@thelemmy.club
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    Phew! It’s a GOOD thing ICE is going after Criminals! Pedophiles! Illegals! Autistic CHILDREN!

    -Republicans!

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      ~100k usd annually. You’re from somewhere worse. You couldn’t get into NZ, etc…

      Hyperbolic 20 years lol

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        ~100k usd annually.

        Not sure what you’re representing, here. Income? Is that how the dow is 50-thousand?

        You’re from somewhere worse.

        Is that ad-hominem or are you suggesting a motivation for moving to America? Because moving from “someplace worse” is actually the reason everyone moves; for varying criteria but that’s the reason.

        You couldn’t get into NZ, etc…

        Again, not sure whether this is stating motivation; is that the intent?

        Hyperbolic 20 years

        This is an odd thing to point out.

        lol

        Ah! You were a pre-teen back then. I get it now.

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      total shithole

      Hard to ironically quote Trump without picking up his pernicious tendencies. Like, blaming victims to distract from the real root of problems (the US government and all of its agents who did this).

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        to distract from the real root of problems (the US government and all of its agents who did this).

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        But God damn is the food fucking good…

        As is most of the food around the US that isn’t just hyper processed shit from the store. People in the US make some damn good food

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          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

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

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              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.

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                  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

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    I mean, they will be killing autistic people in camps in masses very soon. Might as well start now is their mentality.

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      She’s certainly white.

      So they are detaining white people legally here on work visas. Cool. So, is this Phase II? Next is any white person, “indiscriminately”, I take it?

      Also worth mentioning that her autistic 7 year old daughter voted for this and her face is being eaten, too.

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    How quickly the American attention span goes to the next shiny object. Remember when Robbie Junior was sporting a woody over the idea of sending autistic people to labor camps?

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    Why the hell would anybody choose to move from British Columbia to Texas? What a downgrade.