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Seven-year-old Canadian girl with autism and mother detained by ICE in Texas
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2026
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I don't understand why anyone would willingly move to the U.S in the last 20 years. It's a total shithole and the food is bad.
Hard to ironically quote Trump without picking up his pernicious tendencies. Like, blaming victims to distract from the real root of problems (the US government and all of its agents who did this).
~100k usd annually. You're from somewhere worse. You couldn't get into NZ, etc...
Hyperbolic 20 years lol
Not sure what you're representing, here. Income? It hatloke how the dow is 50-thousand?
Is that ad-hominem or are you suggesting a motivation for moving to America? Because moving from "someplace worse" is actually the reason everyone moves; for varying criteria but that's the reason.
Again, not sure whether this is stating motivation; is that the intent?
This is an odd thing to point out.
Ah! You were a pre-teen back then. I get it now.
You've apparently never been to Louisiana. The only good thing about it is the food.
But God damn is the food fucking good...
As is most of the food around the US that isn't just hyper processed shit from the store. People in the US make some damn good food
Indeed, big leopardseatmyface vibes in this story.
Seems like she probably moved to the US to be with her husband.
God forbid couples would want to be together.
How much do you want to bet that her husband voted for Trump? She probably did too.
You don't know that.
This woman and her daughter are going through a terrible time right now and you want to blame her instead of our fascist government. Why?
Why are you insisting on placing blame on this woman?
Do you know what "how much do you want to bet" implies? Should I imply it harder? Do you need your rhetorical question answered? I'm just curious.
Seriously though, of course I don't know, but I do have a real funny intuition about this sort of thing that works in some really interesting ways. Sometimes it's wrong, granted, but a lot of the time it's right.
There's just something about the level of "surprise" they seem to be exhibiting in their comments about what happened to them. I feel like people who are more aware of what ICE is and has been doing are likely going to sound somewhat less surprised than the people who voted for it thinking it would only happen to brown people and not to them.
I think their surprise at being detained is because she had a valid work permit and visa.
Not everyone in Texas is MAGA.
The rush for people to blame the woman in this story reeks of something else to me.
Meh the US hate on this platform is supercharged so it'll just keep going like this
I mean some parts of it are valid but people are just terrible people sometimes
Yeah it's kinda gross to look at this situation and immediately blame the mother here.
I guess since the other overwhelming hatred here on this site is for women, this makes sense.