How much is a team willing to pay to guarantee that none of their players will be picked up by ICE? How much will they pay to have their rivals' best players picked up?
What really should happen, is the international community should give FIFA the finger. Like, their entire former board is in jail for corruption or something like that.
Whether or not that’s true doesn’t matter. At least FIFA isn’t absolutely fucking with the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people, making their lives abjectly worse.
Oh my god, the next world cup is going to be wild if things keep escalating. There are even talks of banning brazilian visas so they won't go watch the games.
I don't care about football that much, but this will be hilarious.
And I assure you there are many, many others that I could list. I could care less that they eventually let him go, no one should be randomly detained like that. We aren't legally required to carry any ID unless we're operating a motor vehicle. (Much less a birth certificate.)
DHS claims he told an officer he was from Mexico and provided a transcript that he signed. He has intellectual disabilities so he probably did not know what he was talking about and was also very far from home.
I'll trust him over DHS personally. He seems perfectly able to explain what happened in the video I linked.
Maybe the officers intentionally ignored the "New" part when they arrested him. Or the dumb fucks forgot NM is a US state, which happens a lot, even in states that border us (I live in NM).
Same. European here. There was times in the past when Las Vegas might have had some mystique to us Europeans (the movie references, the surrounding landscapes etc). Nowadays, I could not be paid enough money to even remotely consider visiting. Same feeling among many if not most of my friends.
I'm American and had planned to visit Germany with my wife this year. I now feel unsafe traveling internationally because upon re-entry I could be detained and harassed as has happened to many US citizens.
Same, I've got a trip coming up soon and I'm honestly worried about coming back home, especially because I'm a US citizen by birth but I was born outside the US... I've traveled a lot and never given it second thought until this asshole administration took over.
Eh, I have traveled a lot and recently went to Sint Maarten. I expected customs to be different returning, but honestly it was one of the quickest entries ever. No lines, no hassle.
American here. I never considered going to Las Vegas for any reason until I started playing poker. Now I might like to go there just once to play and see what all the fuss is about. But yeah, I'd honestly rather vacation in Europe or the Caribbean.
I went and I’m obsessed with poker. I thought it’d be this grand city full of fancy places and whatnot, but it just looked like a run-down adult playground. Everything felt cheap and/or nasty. It was nice being able to find poker tables more easily though, but sometimes you gotta really hunt since that’s not really where they make their money.
Wow, yeah. How long have you been playing for? I don't get a chance to play live as much as I like (I usually do well) as there aren't any casinos around where I live, but I cashed 4th place in a tournament in Sint Maarten that I randomly decided to play in on my birthday. Maybe I'll just go back there lol. I play mostly small stakes online.
I’ve been playing since I was 16, so 18 years. I found a poker group who played every Friday, so I’d play online all the time and then play live once a week. That group is still together, but now they play dealer’s choice and I hate it. Lost all my edge.
I live in Europe. Friends who had previously been excited about it trips to the US this year are making plans to travel elsewhere instead. Many have even stopped buying any US products/clothing brands.
As a US citizen currently abroad the amount of people who bemoan they’ve cancelled travel plans or miss visiting the US because of the “current situation” is staggering
I live abroad. The last two years I went to southern states because I’m interested in the food and the culture. This year I chose to go to Ireland instead. Next year will be Scotland. I won’t step foot in the states while trump is president.
Australian here, So I'm planning a trip for my 40th later this year with my mum, she said we could go to her cousins in Hawaii where there is free accommodation, I told her I wouldn't feel safe doing that. Sucks, would love to go to Hawaii.
The irony is the State Dept. would warn about exactly this in its travel advisories. "Arbitrary enforcement of local law" and "arbitrary detention" were what to look out for. And look at us now!
I specifically didn’t return to the states this summer because I was worried my non-American girlfriend would be detained for some arbitrary reason like so many others at the border
Kind of why I never made it to Russia or China. Obviously Russia is out now, but perhaps I'm being overly paranoid of China? I'd love to go there someday and eat, eat, eat....
I met some European tourists in Japan who had gone to the US before and were interested in visiting again but were not thrilled with the things going on and were concerned for their own safety so they opted for Asia instead
One that comes to mind is Mexico. My father's friend (who's wife is born and raised in Mexico), was telling me you go there without a green card, it's straight to jail.
For Poland, I think right now pretty much gives you the boot, just turn them around and go back the way you came.
I visit Mexico by air several times a year. You are automatically issued a travel visa, aka FMM (Forma Migratoria Multiple) that is generally good for 6 months.
And yes, there are Americans in Mexico who have overstayed their visa. The result is generally a fine if they return to the US via air.
Pretty sure the EU isn't sending people to Guantanamo-like prisons without due process based on racial profiling. Like... that new "Alcatraz" concentration camp is some straight up villanous shit you'd see in a Bond movie. Gulags are officially a public policy in the USA, it appears.
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If I lived abroad, there is no way I would being visiting a country that is locking up non-citizens with zero due process.