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The Connors family didn’t plan to be on the unmarked road.
Originally from the United Kingdom, the two couples and their three young children were driving near the U.S.-Canada border on Oct. 3 during a visit to Vancouver when an animal ventured into the road, forcing them to make an unexpected detour. But before the family could get very far, flashing lights from a police car appeared in their rearview mirror. The officer that pulled them over was American — they had accidentally crossed the border.
This is a very disturbing incident and is exactly what makes me ashamed to call myself an American. I get it though, this is the type of stuff that gives all of the authoritarian hard ass douche-bags hard on's.The vacationing family says this was the moment their trip turned into “the scariest experience of our lives,” according to a complaint filed Friday to the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security. Instead of being allowed to return to Canada or the U.K., Eileen Connors alleges that her entire family, including her 3-month-old son, ended up detained at the Berks Family Residential Center in Leesport, Pa., where they have spent more than a week living in “frigid” and “filthy” conditions. As of late Monday, Bridget Cambria, the Connorses’ lawyer, told The Washington Post that the British family was still at the center waiting to be deported.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...onnors-british-family-ice-vacation-detention/ This is a very disturbing incident and is exactly what makes me ashamed to call myself an American. I get it though, this is the type of stuff that gives all of the authoritarian hard ass douche-bags hard on's.
What's the big deal? They came into the country illegally and were arrested. We arrest illegal immigrants all the time.
Do you think they deserved special treatment?
You can always immigrate, if you hate us so much.
What's the big deal? They came into the country illegally and were arrested. We arrest illegal immigrants all the time.
Do you think they deserved special treatment?
You can always immigrate, if you hate us so much.
I read the article and see the problem. They came off as typical self important millennials who think that laws are meant to be bent for them. Nothing was up to their standards. A cup of soup. Awwww... so unfair. I think they probably got indignant, “I’m a British citizen, let me go colonist!” Unless the border is not marked, it’s not accidental.https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...onnors-british-family-ice-vacation-detention/ This is a very disturbing incident and is exactly what makes me ashamed to call myself an American. I get it though, this is the type of stuff that gives all of the authoritarian hard ass douche-bags hard on's.
On vacation, driving down an unmarked road, not knowing where their going? The pecker-wood cop should have checked them out during the stop, confirmed their situation, helped them out, turned them around got them situated on the proper road. Dude's a tool. There are exceptions in the real world. This cop is an asshole.
It sucks that the situation couldn't just be cleared up immediately like common sense would dictate. Hopefully they got out of the country before they had to use our healthcare system.
Passive aggressive. "we'll show those good for nothing fancy pants Brits, who's boss".I read the article and see the problem. They came off as typical self important millennials who think that laws are meant to be bent for them. Nothing was up to their standards. A cup of soup. Awwww... so unfair. I think they probably got indignant, “I’m a British citizen, let me go colonist!” Unless the border is not marked, it’s not accidental.
Next, what animal causes you to drive on another road into another country? Bigfoot?
“ We don’t need no stinking border”.
Common sense would dictate that you don't take a 3-month old on a joy ride in back roads where you don't know where TF you're going.
Common sense would dictate that you don't take a 3-month old on a joy ride in back roads where you don't know where TF you're going.
Families have been packing up, hitting the road and getting lost on vacations since the car was invented and the first roads were paved.
Families have been packing up, hitting the road and getting lost on vacations since the car was invented and the first roads were paved.
What's the big deal? They came into the country illegally and were arrested. We arrest illegal immigrants all the time.
Do you think they deserved special treatment?
You can always immigrate, if you hate us so much.
The "farm road" was so untraveled and obscure that American officials were right there policing it.
Think, folks.
the two couples and their three young children were driving near the U.S.-Canada border on Oct. 3 during a visit to Vancouver when an animal ventured into the road, forcing them to make an unexpected detour. But before the family could get very far, flashing lights from a police car appeared in their rearview mirror. The officer that pulled them over was American — they had accidentally crossed the border.
On vacation, driving down an unmarked road, not knowing where their going? The pecker-wood cop should have checked them out during the stop, confirmed their situation, helped them out, turned them around got them situated on the proper road. Dude's a tool. There are exceptions in the real world. This cop is an asshole.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...onnors-british-family-ice-vacation-detention/ This is a very disturbing incident and is exactly what makes me ashamed to call myself an American. I get it though, this is the type of stuff that gives all of the authoritarian hard ass douche-bags hard on's.
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