blackbird

Who gets to choose which laws you ignore? Many migrant's rights are ignored.

You need to read the King James Bible especially the New Testament. Be set free.

Where does the "love thy neighbour" come in?

What hate!

Some MAGA types don't hate Jews but they sure like to deport undocumented migrants and don't mind all the people being seized and abused.

That's probably what the Nazis said about the Jews...the less the better.

Not lib ideology. Just humanity.

Lot of these FNs leaders or so-called Chiefs are brain washed radicals who could care less about the economy or making Canada prosper. We need political leaders who know how to deal with them and get Canada moving. Build build, drill drill, and ship ouf oil to thd world that demands it.

No,it is often not that simple. They may have been brought to the U.S. when they were a kid and grew up in America for years. They may fear going to a place that is foreign to them. They may fear gangs and crime. All there immediate family may live near them. They might have American kids and wife. Surely you can think.

Here you are falsely accusing me of lying. How could I have been lying when I was going by the article I posted that never mentioned what you posted now? If I didn't know about it or forgot the article you now bring up, what I said was no lie. A lie is an attempt to deceive. I wasn't attempting to deceive. Yes, we sometimes do make mistakes and forget things or don't have all the facts. That is not the same as lying. So it turns out you are the liar for falsely claiming I lied. Is that all you can do on here? You should be able to do better. Learn how to talk to people in a civilized way.

No you're just making up a story. None of it was part of the news item I posted. I don't have to chase around trying to find out User's story. If you want to post it, that's up to you. I know from dealing with User it is a waste of time trying to discuss anything. He is blocked. You are playing some kind of game inventing a different story or maybe there was another story about a different person. I don't know. That's not the one I posted in any case. The one I posted is quite clear. He was not arrested for any criminal offence. It was strictly because his Visa expired 3 days before but he had a medical issue and couldn't fly. So he was falsely arrested and locked up for 100 days.

I think it is the government job to look at whether putting tariffs on certain things would be useful and really help the trade dispute. It is a fact that putting tariffs on some things might hurt Canadians more than pressure the U.S. to negotiate a trade deal. So it is not just a simple thing of putting tariffs on all imported goods. Doing that would make no sense. America is ten times the size of Canada in population and likely far more than ten times the size in economic wealth and power. They hold most of the cards. Carney has to be careful he doesn't put tariffs on imported goods that would do more harm to Canadians than accomplish anything in the trade negotiations. An example is fruit and vegetables. Canadians depend on imported vegetables in the winter because we don't have the climate to grow them much of the year. So it wouldn't make any sense to put tariffs on fruit and vegetables that we must import from the U.S. in the winter. That would only end up hurting consumers in Canada by making groceries more expensive.

Are you making all that up? There was nothing I posted that says his medical issue started months and months before and there was nothing that said 'the reason he was arrested and deported was due to a domestic violence call". I just looked back and this is what I found: "Or, like Thomas – a 35-year-old tech worker from Ireland, who was visiting his girlfriend in the US when he said he suffered a sudden health issue that prevented him from flying. His overstay of just three days landed him in ICE custody, where he spent 100 days in detention in federal facilities, claiming he endured overcrowded conditions and limited medical care. He was deported and slapped with a 10-year re-entry ban."

You're correct. The 3 day overstay on an expired Visa was in another story I posted. HOWEVER, it is an example of the continuing reports of abuse in detention, which for some strange reason you are trying to deny. You look like a fraud working for them Some might report 100 and another might report 500 or more. Those are just rough figures. It also depends on the kind of abuse and which locations they are talking about. It is believed they are only a small fraction of the abuse. Many people don't like to report things done to them because they are scared and don't want to risk retribution.

This is about someone who had a medical issue and was three days over the Visa date. Yet was treated like a criminal. Incarcerated for 100 days. You obviously didn't read the article.

More than 100 human rights abuses discovered in immigration detention since Trump took office, senate probe says | The Independent Shackled, abused and humiliated: Report paints grim picture of life in ICE detention | CBC Radio DOJ Targets Sanctuary Cities, FBI Reports Major Crime Drop, Abuse Uncovered in ICE Facilities Bing Videos Report reveals abuse of pregnant women, children at ICE facilities ByAl Mayadeen English Source: The Guardian A new report from Senator Jon Ossoff’s office documents over 500 alleged human rights violations in US immigration detention centers. Report reveals abuse of pregnant women, children at ICE facilities | Al Mayadeen English Hundreds of immigrants have reported sexual abuse at ICE facilities. Most cases aren’t investigated | PBS News Try Google; it's easy.

A tiny percentage (2%) overstay their VISA but if that happens because of circumstances beyond one's control, such as a medical emergency, it looks like there is no forgiveness; only real abuse and punishment. "And of that tiny percentage, many are unintentional – a missed deadline, a cancelled flight, or bureaucratic confusion. Or, like Thomas – a 35-year-old tech worker from Ireland, who was visiting his girlfriend in the US when he said he suffered a sudden health issue that prevented him from flying. His overstay of just three days landed him in ICE custody, where he spent 100 days in detention in federal facilities, claiming he endured overcrowded conditions and limited medical care. He was deported and slapped with a 10-year re-entry ban." The land of the free is now the land of a $15,000 fee

You sound like a Gestapo kind of guy. You need to be ignored.

Are you dense? The article says clearly his wife was locked up for her political views. There is no freedom or justice system in Russia. Obviously he believed he could be next to be arrested and possibly tortured and had to flee from Russia. He did apply for asylum in the U.S. and cleared the screening process. Now ICE is arresting many who are not American citizens and deporting them. ICE apparently are almost all private contractors and they must be getting paid according to the number of people they arrest and deport. He has a legitimate fear about going back to Russia. How is it you don't understand that? He came to America to escape being imprisoned and possibly losing his son in the first place. That should not be too difficult to understand. Do you even bother to read articles and understand them before commenting? I don't think so.

Did you bother to read the article? He applied for asylum in the U.S. and passed through the screening process. So he did apply the proper way. Why can't you understand a simple article? Nothing complicated about it, unless you have problems comprehending a simple article.

Before the Reformation in the 1500s, people were under the total control of the Papacy, which controlled Kings, Queens, and dominions throughout the western world. There was no freedom of thought or beliefs. The primary purpose of the Reformation was to break free from the shackles of Rome. Reformation leaders believed man should be free to believe in God according to his own conscience and his own belief on what the Bible says and not be controlled by the Papacy and its clergy through the mass and all its sacraments and rules. The Reformation was not specifically for the purpose of abolishing slavery, but it certainly led to abolishing slavery in the following centuries. The purpose of the Reformation was to obtain freedom from the control by Rome for everyone. Don't forget slavery had been going on in many places in the world in various forms for countless centuries and still goes on in some forms in various places. quote At the founding of the United States, all of the original thirteen states permitted slavery. Originally, every state was a slave state. However, as Christians increasingly recognized that American, race-based slavery differed significantly from the indentured servitude many European colonists had experienced and from the slavery described in the Bible, they began to see it as a blatant violation of the Lord Jesus’ “golden rule”: do unto others as you would have them do to you (Matthew 7:12). As American slavery became more prominent, its true nature became more apparent. Christians began to oppose it. So arose leaders like the Quakers Moses Brown (1738 –1836), John Woolman (1720 –1772), and Benjamin Lundy (1789-1833), editor of the Genius of Universal Emancipation; and the Puritan Samuel Sewall (1652 – 1730) who authored The Selling of Joseph (1700), one of the earliest anti-slavery texts; Samuel Hopkins (1721-1803) who led his church to become the first recorded organized church to openly preach against slavery; Presbyterian pastor Jacob Green (1722-1790) identified slave-holding as contrary to the ideals of the Revolution; early Baptist leader Isaac Backus (1724-1806) declared “No man abhors that wicked practice [of slavery] more than I do”; Baptist pastor David Barrow (1753–1819) founded the Kentucky Abolition Society; Lyman Beecher (1775 –1863) championed the abolition of slavery, influencing leading abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879); George Bourne (1780–1845) a Presbyterian pastor in Virginia, authored The Book and Slavery Irreconcileable (sic) (1815); Francis Wayland (1796-1865), Baptist pastor and president of Brown University, wrote anti-slavery books which influenced Abraham Lincoln; and the many converts of the revivalism of the early nineteenth century were taught, by leaders like Charles Finney (1792-1875), that opposing slavery was a moral obligation. Hence, entire denominations officially denounced slavery, such as the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Quakers, The Reformed Presbyterian Church, The Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, Presbyterian General Assembly, Triennial Board of Foreign Missions (the, then, major Baptist organization), and others. unquote Blog: The Christian Role in Ending American Slavery | Christian History Institute There are a number of countries that still have slavery. They are not western countries where there has been a Judeo-Christian culture or civilization. So while ending slavery was not the main message of Christianity, it did have an influence to help end it over time. The teaching to love thy neighbour probably was a major factor and the belief that God created man in his image and every person's humanity and dignity must be respected. That also helped to recognize the importance of human rights. Some countries that still practice slavery: India 11,050,000 China 5,771,000 North Korea 2,696,000 Pakistan 2,349,000 Russia 1,899,000

" A subsequent report, first published by NBC News on Tuesday, identified 510 “credible reports” of abuse inside Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers, federal prisons, local jails and military bases, including Guantanamo Bay, and on deportation flights. “Credibly reported or confirmed events to date include deaths in custody, physical and sexual abuse, mistreatment of pregnant women, mistreatment of children, inadequate medical care, overcrowding and unsanitary living conditions, inadequate food or water, exposure to extreme temperatures, denial of access to attorneys, and family separations,” according to the report. Those events include 41 allegations of physical or sexual abuse, including an alleged incident in El Paso where a detainee was “slammed against the ground, handcuffed, and taken outside” for “stepping out of line in the dining hall.” More than 100 human rights abuses discovered in immigration detention since Trump took office, senate probe says This report likely only reveals a small fraction of the abuse going on. People are likely afraid to report abuse or don't have the means to report it.

" Special Rapporteur exposes torture in Russia as a tool for repression at home and aggression abroad 29 October 2024 NEW YORK — In her first thematic report to the General Assembly, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Russian Federation, Mariana Katzarova, revealed the State’s complicity and encouragement of widespread and systematic torture and ill-treatment. “Since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, torture has become a State-sanctioned tool of systematic oppression, used to control and to stifle dissent, and attack the foundations of human rights and civic space in Russia,” the UN expert said. Key findings highlighted the lack of a distinct criminal offense of torture in Russian law, with acts of torture prosecuted as lesser offences, thus failing to provide adequate penalties commensurate with the crime of torture and redress for victims. “Russia’s law enforcement, security services, and military employ a wide range of methods of torture, many of which have notorious names that bring horror to survivors,” said Katzarova. “They include mock executions known as “Rasstrel”, cruel beatings called “Priyomka”, rape, prolonged solitary confinement, as well as punitive psychiatry. Victims endured lengthy bouts of electric shocks to sensitive areas, including the genitals, by using a modified field military telephone known as tapik, in methods dubbed a “Call to a friend” or “Call to Putin”. These are just a few examples of torture methods aimed at inflicting severe physical and psychological pain.” The report emphasised the impact of torture on political prisoners, human rights and anti-war activists, conscientious objectors and mobilised men, lawyers, journalists, LGBT persons, migrants and asylum seekers, Indigenous Peoples and national minorities, as well as women and girls. “The State’s complicity in crimes against women and girls, including honour killings and female genital mutilation, entrenches the violence they face, especially in Chechnya and North Caucasus region, where such practices are common. In Chechnya, LGBT persons face extreme violence, including enforced disappearances and State-sanctioned torture in secret detention facilities. On release, their families are asked to kill them with impunity in honour killings. These practices signal the Russian State’s disregard and violation of international human rights standards,” the expert said. Courts routinely ignore credible reports of torture, siding with perpetrators rather than upholding justice. Such unchecked impunity has “normalized” torture within Russian society, where violence is tolerated and even encouraged, following the March 2024 terrorist attack in Moscow when the suspects were shown being tortured on national television." Special Rapporteur exposes torture in Russia as a tool for repression at home and aggression abroad | OHCHR It is very difficult for a Russian dissident to immigate to another country. Russian anti-war activists reveal what it's like being 'de facto stateless' | News World | Metro News Russia’s sick torture of Ukrainian POWs — including shocks to genitals, beatings, amputations — laid bare in ICC testimony Russia tortured Ukrainian POWs with shocks to genitals, brutal beatings

quote President Donald Trump is trying to deport a Russian man who passed the U.S. screening process for asylum. The U.S. government has also taken away his son. Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, posted an excerpt of a New York Times report revealing that the man fled to the United States after his wife was locked up for her political views. Pavel Snegir and his 11-year-old son, Aleksandr, already passed the initial screening and confirmed that if Snegir is sent back to Russia, he will likely be tortured. "But the Trump admin is still trying to deport him anyway, and has taken away his son until he agrees to be deported," wrote Reichlin-Melnick. Snegir and his son had been in ICE custody, but in May he was taken to an airport in San Diego. He was told he could take his son to the court hearing in New York. But once they were at the airport, Snegir was scared to board the plane, convinced he was about to be deported back to Russia. "Later that day, after the flight had left, an ICE official told him he would be separated from his son because he refused to be deported," the report said. Snegir said he refused to give the government his child. ICE followed with threats he'd be thrown "to the ground, handcuffed and taken away if he did not relent." He didn't move and "everything she promised happened," Snegir recalled. His son witnessed the whole ordeal. He previously watched his mother be taken by the Russian government, too. Now, ICE is telling Snegir that he can self-deport back to Russia, or they'll deport him anyway, without his son. They claimed he may never see his son again. Snegir relented, but the following day, he was approved under the protection screening, which means ICE can deport him, but he can't be sent to Russia. This week, the administration also published its guidance on birthright citizenship, which will allow ICE to enter maternity wards and demand papers from families after their infants are born. If the parents can't prove their citizenship, the government can take the newborn away from its parents and deport it to whatever country it wants, one legal analyst described. unquote ICE seizes 11-year-old to force dad’s deportation — despite torture risk

You are being dishonest. You claimed to be a Bible believer. The article said they completed their sentences. So how can they be sent to another prison in another country when they have not been sentenced for any crime since they completed their sentences? " Five immigrants deported by the United States to Eswatini in a secret deal last month had served their criminal sentences before they were sent to be held in a prison in the African country, a lawyer working on their cases said Friday." If they completed their sentences, how can you twist the story to try to make it appear they are justly being locked up again. Is that your idea of justice? Sounds more like vigilante justice.