An American citizen says he and his wife were detained for hours by U.S. border agents when they returned to the United States after a short trip to Canada.
Bachir Atallah told CNN he and his wife, Jessica, were driving back into the U.S. Sunday evening after visiting family in Canada for the weekend when U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents stopped them for a secondary inspection at the Highgate Springs checkpoint in Vermont.
Atallah, who is originally from Lebanon, said he was told to park his Range Rover and hand over his keys. When he asked the officer why, the officer placed his hand on his gun and told him to exit his vehicle, Atallah said. He said he was then handcuffed and led into a cell, where his belongings were confiscated. He said his wife was put into a cell across from his.
“Seeing my wife’s mascara running because she was crying, it was heartbreaking,” Atallah said. “It wasn’t humane.”
who is originally from Lebanon
Found the pattern. They don’t like brown people or anyone with any connections with “brown people locations”
Aka: fascists being fascist
I hope every single one of these cases results in a lawsuit.
Been saying for awhile now if you plan on leaving the country, plan to move.
Nobody should be coming here right now. It’s too dangerous.
Not with the head of ice saying shit like “we want prime but for people” regarding deportations
So basically anyone non-white should never visit, and if youre not white and plan to leave, plan on it just being for good.
Murica
FYI: they weren’t white.
So: is this the FO of FAFO, or leopards? Or both?
He thought he was white adjacent enough and voted for Trump though.
As a not white, I keep telling these people they aren’t white and they won’t get in the club and they DO NOT LISTEN. you better give a shit about immigrants because no matter how long you’ve been here they still hate you for not being white.
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-voter-bachir-atallah-detained-border-agents-2060893 and he voted for Trump apparently… 🤦♂️
You just can’t explain the stupid. I defy you to even try.
Brain damage. Possibly eaten by worms.
First thing I check for is a picture or name.
feels like the borders of who is white are being policed harder too
Ok but even Native Americans are brown 🤔
Border agents would have better results enforcing their “whites only” policy at the border of Scandinavian countries.
What ‘‘native’’ haven’t you heard? ''They don’t look native to me, probably Mexicans is all the agent has to say to deny due process and kick them out.
I guess I’ll see about my uncle and his wife. They’re up in Canada this weekend for the holiday. Her family is there.
I think people in here didn’t read the article. Border patrol explained that he was just overreacting. Being cuffed and placed in a cell for hours is part of normal operating procedure. It’s all fine. Everything is fine.
I have seen some rhetoric about this, like “a few bad apples,” but here’s the problem with this and a lot of enforcement jobs.
- Polite and decent people, on average, dislike confrontation. Thus, are not particularly attracted to these types of jobs.
- This leads to an uneven amount who are fine with confrontation or even like it. Some of these people are sociopaths and psychopaths.
- People who are psychopaths are actually very attracted to position where they have power over people.
- US Customs are not regulated under the same laws as police or military. They can do what they want, when they want, with little to no discretion.
Are all US customs agents bad? No, of course not. But unchecked power is dangerous for anything. I can’t tell you what percentage is or is not, because you can’t measure a negative. But I see this in military, police, hired guards, and politics.
Many years ago, they cavity searched an underage girl at my local airport (Dulles) as she returned with her family from a vacation in Jamaica. They separated her from her family, did not tell her family, and searched all her holes “for drugs.” They defended their actions by saying, “if we told people we didn’t cavity search babies, they’d hide drugs inside babies.” Essentially admitting, with no shame, they’d cavity search an infant. All in the name of “stopping drugs.” Oh and the girl? US citizen, but dark skinned. The mistake they made was her dad was a powerful attorney and went public.
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-106hhrg66023/html/CHRG-106hhrg66023.htm
https://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/circle/raceprofiling/stories.racial.profiling.html
I am going to say right now, the actual phrase is “a few bad apples spoil the bunch” and it is to literally say that yes, one or two massive assholes in any collective will eventually fuck shit up for everyone if not dealt with. I don’t know why the second part of that phrase stopped being acknowledged but it isn’t supposed to be just a hand wave to say oh it’s just one guy so let it go.
also go be clear, i am talking about ICE, not the american citizens illegally detained for daring to return to their county while being human.
I’ve been seriously reconsidering my vacation to Mexico scheduled for the second half of this year. I’m Asian and I have no doubt that I will be “randomly selected” to go through extra screening.
Bachir Atallah
Yeah, I think I know why they detained him.
Fuck this country.
He also voted for trump
If he did, then I guess he’s having the day he voted for. But I still detest that I live in the kind of country that would do this shit.
Absolutely, I would hate it where I am if it happened here
But not even the OK half of that chart is set in stone unless you have an obviously American surname like Smith or Jones. You could be a white fifth generation American with a surname that sounds remotely middle Eastern, east European, etc. and you could be in for a rude awakening…
They detained a white German tourist trying to enter with a German passport and valid visa for several weeks, while he begged them to just let him book the next flight back to Germany.
It has never been this explicit.
Well since the 90s anyway.
First they came for…
Move up the list.
They came for…
They are coming for us all. Act accordingly.
If a country claim you have nukes, you have to acquire them quickly.
If a government claims you are a terrorist, then become what they are claiming.
Bachir Atallah
I think I found the explanation.
Because of Schindler’s list, Ann Frank’s diary and history classes, I totally understood why Vietnamese people here in the US wanted to change their name to a more American name. I found it funny at first when I met my first Viet person ever. But it was then pretty normal and I think the Chinese do it too. Now we are living the same pressures against other migrants. Will they go from Juanes to John’s? Will Maria become Jessica?
OMG! Even that is not possible due to the laws where one cannot change our name and also vote.
Slightly irrelevant, but I used to work with a guy who moved from Vietnam and changed his name to a more American one. Motherfucker was named Joe Cobra.
Even more irrelevant:
My grandfather was named Ignazio. He didn’t like people calling him Iggy, so he changed his name to Harry.
How the hell do you go from Ignazio to Harry?
Ah! Hilarious. I worked with a bunch. But my favorite one was Kevin. Imagine an elder skinny Vietnamese gentleman.
Anyway, I’m gonna be going from Francisco to Jake. Jake last name Fromstatefarm, mother’s middle name Wearingkakis.
Trump might as well just make it illegal to travel in or out of the Untied States
Wouldn’t surprise me if that is his plan. We can both name a few countries where it is very hard to travel in or out of the country. They aren’t nice places to live
Funny how so many of these detained US citizens share certain, ahem, characteristics about their names
