A representative for Customs and Border Protection told HuffPost, "Arriving aliens bear the burden of establishing admissibility to the United States."

Let me break this down:

Openly defying court orders multiple times= dictatorship Threatening to jail political opponents despite them being pardoned= dictatorship Deporting American citizens who have legal citizenship= dictatorship Can’t put it any simpler.

  • ansiz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    21 hours ago

    I don’t think anything that they did to this lady was legal but for her to attend the funeral and then admit that to the agents seems like a exceedingly bad decision.

    I’m kinda mystified why you’d attend a funeral of such a figure, take a bunch of pictures of you there(?), and fly back to the USA with the administration currently in place and not expect a shitshow. Is this an extreme version of ‘don’t talk to the cops’ or was this lady just very naive? Even as a US citizen I’d probably wipe my phone before flying back to the US just to avoid anything weird popping up if it was searched.

    • azuth@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      16 hours ago

      The photos were in the ‘trash can’ according to the article. Most people would wipe their phone with a kleenex tissue.

    • Machinist@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      20 hours ago

      Sounds like she can go teach in Europe now pretty easily. She’s got a great story. Fucking slick, if deliberate.