• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    Definitely not … I’m 100% Indigenous Canadian and I was born and raised here … but I’m a brown long haired Native guy and I would not go into the US right now.

    If you’re white you have a good chance of nothing happening … but a higher chance than ever before of being arrested because of something border guards read on your mobile phone or social media posts.

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      22 hours ago

      You’re absolutely right.

      But even white women are getting detained for two weeks before being sent home. If it can be like that for them, how much worse can it be for everyone else. She managed to get access to another detainee’s phone and got her story out too. How many others are detained right now that we’ll never hear about…

    • toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      i can’t get a suntan before a sunburn, i grew up in the US south, i live in canada now, and there’s no chance in hell you’re getting me within eyeline of a US border agent.

      edit - once you’re at the border, your fate is pretty much at the whim of an idiot with authority.