Wrong turn onto U.S.-Canada bridge has Detroit woman facing deportation
Wrong turn onto U.S.-Canada bridge has Detroit woman facing deportation
Following GPS to the nearest Costco led a Guatemalan woman and her two U.S. born children to the International bridge where they were detained for a week and now face deportation.
It is really easy to mess up and end up on the Ambassador Bridge. I did it going to the Japanese consulate in Detroit but, luckily, there is a little u-turn place if you notice quickly enough (or at least was... and I'm not sure how legal that u-turn was, but I'm sure they see it all the time).
Was she here legally or illegally?
Without due process, there is no way to determine her legal status.
Robinson declined to release her name or age, only confirming that she has been in the U.S. about six years, but has no legal status. Her daughters were born in the U.S. Their father lives in Detroit.
This is the second story I've heard about someone making a wrong turn on a bridge from the U. S. to Canada and being kidnapped by ICE.
It's not that hard to do. If you miss the sign, you're heading to Canada. Also, she asked to be directed to the nearest Costco, and the nearest Costco happened to be in Canada.
I guess we’re at a point where the safest thing to do in this situation would be to just abandon your car and walk away. It’s better to sacrifice your car and inconvenience traffic than to risk your life interacting with ICE.
I mean, I know other drivers would be pissed, but so be it. In the (hopefully) unlikely event anyone here finds themselves in this situation, don’t buy into the sunk cost fallacy - just cut your losses and keep yourself safe.
I’ve done this. Didn’t have cash for the toll.
I could imagine ICE intentionally covering up signs to induce more mistakes like this.
Fuck America.
Fuck the USA. America is a continent with many nice countries.
Fuck Trump.
From what the article says, it seems like that should read, "Being in the country illegally has Detroit woman facing deportation".
there often is no path to legality, and she is the caregiver of her American-born children.
There shouldn't be a path to legality - that just incentivizes more illegal immigration, because they know they'll get residency eventually.
To be clear, I think what's going on in El Salvador is abhorrent, and that at this point ICE is basically the Gestapo, but that doesn't mean that countries shouldn't have the right to decide who is and who isn't allowed across their borders.
If I illegally crossed the border into Canada because I don't like what Trump is doing, for example, they have every right to kick me out.
This is getting comical. I'm waiting for the American citizen that gets deported for spitting on the ground. He wouldn't even be a law breaker, but the orange idiot would just stare blankly and say they're nothing they can do.
Wrong turn to Costco? believe it or not, El Salvador!
Waiting for the president to announce himself as an Elder Imam.
There should be a rule by which if you are in a country without documentation and then you leave the country and try to return, they can't bust you for undocumented entry if you only left due to a goof.