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Virginia Allain's avatar

I'm horrified, but deep down we all suspected that treatment like this was happening. I'm sending this to my Senators. Unfortunately, both are Republican and will just brush it off. I'll point out to them that we can expect no further tourists from Germany. Maybe that will get their attention.

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Linda Lehmann's avatar

I wish they would listen. I have the same problem with my Republican reps. I send letters anyway. I occasionally get a reply with the b.s. Trump and his unqualified cabinet spew. Disgusting. This is a regime of cruel and inhumane treatment!

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Lynn4Humanity's avatar

All I've gotten isn't a canned one-size-fits-all bullshit reply from my congresspeople.

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Diana Heritage's avatar

Horrible. Glad you got out of this crumbling society. Your ancestors may have perished under a similar regime.

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Bad Bunny's avatar

ICE also detained, questioned, stripsearched, confined and then deported two other German teen women, who were backpacking and camping around the world, upon their arrival in Hawaii.

Their crime? Not having booked hotel reservations.

Hawaii has long been a premier destination for German tourists. This treatment flies in the face of our aloha spirit. Shame!

https://people.com/german-teens-detained-hawaii-during-post-graduation-trip-11719907

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California Jonathan's avatar

Absolutely HUMILIATING for the USA! Or it should be, anyway. If we had a democracy instead of a fascist dictatorship. So ironic that it was a GERMAN TOURIST who got f*cked over by ICE! Those bastards are just doing their job???? Don’t tell me that doesn’t remind you of what the Nazis and the Gestapo said back in the early 40s!! IN GERMANY!! 🤯🤦🏻‍♂️

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Patricia L Duckworth's avatar

We simply must get rid of ICE.

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Rob Spencer's avatar

Get rid of Trump you get rid of DOGE and ICE....Get rid of the cause not the problem....

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Patricia L Duckworth's avatar

ICE came before Trump.

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Rob Spencer's avatar

Trump's Version of ICE is way more extreme I very much doubt ICE sent folks to El Salvador before, I doubt ICE snatched folks off the Streets even when legally there I assume due process occurred too....Most Countries have Immigration 'Police' but ONLY Countries with DICTATORS do what ICE are currently doing..Trump is a TRAITOR to the Constitution and American Law....

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William N Davis II's avatar

The tourism industry should be screaming bloody murder! This story sounds like the 47 administration is literally out to crush the industry.

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Eddie's avatar

"Goon-

Well-known slang term in sexual subculture of chronic and compulsive masturbators, used both as a verb and a noun. Means achieving the trance-like blissful state reached when riding the edge of cumming for as long as possible, perhaps many minutes or even hours at a time. Also denoting the absence of control, compulsively pursuing that feeling as a avid masturbator. The term has been in frequent use for at least ten years, perhaps emerging from the physical look of one who is "gooning" or "in the goon," which is a self-possessed, glassy eyed stare of stupidity (thus, an oaf). Also known as "bator mush" and "slain in the bate." UD

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