Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone’

she knew that international travellers were being locked up in immigration detention centres in the US. “I was aware,” she nods. “But I never thought it would have any impact on my holiday.”

  • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    The blue states aren’t safe either.

    Most of the people ICE murdered were in a state so blue it didn’t vote for Reagan.