Although the legal penalty for improperly importing this non-toxic, non-hazardous frog material is simply a fine of up to $500, Peshkin said, immigration officers decided to deny Petrova re-entry to the US. When she informed the authorities of her very real fear of being jailed for protesting Putin’s war on Ukraine should she be returned to Russia, “she was transferred to Ice, into detention, to wait for an asylum hearing,” Peshkin said.
She didn’t properly declare some biological samples that she uses for her work. Instead of a fine, they said that she would be denied entry (which usually means being put back on the next flight where you came from, in this case France). When she described her very real fear of being returned not to France but to Russia, they decided that they weren’t going to send her back to France after all, they were going to detain her and send her to exactly the place she said she was most in danger from.
They are going out of their way to be as malevolently cruel as possible.
I’m aware. There was also the tattoo artist detained for several weeks and moved around to different ICE facilities. What I was referring to was that this isn’t just being done to people residing here, but also to people coming, legally, for a short visit.
what are the y-axis values on those graphs. makes a difference if the top and bottom are 0 to 1% or 0 to 100%. My guess is the former, which means data is meaningless, unless they polled a million people. (article is paywalled, so couldn’t look closer at the source)
Watched a lot more of Senator Booker on CSPAN2 than i expected to. What an impressive display of impassioned stamina! ((i’d be dead by this point)). And he’s still going (CNN link) close to breaking 24 hours. The Senate record being:
The late Strom Thurmond holds the record for the longest speech when he spoke on the floor for 24 hours and 18 minutes to oppose the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
…probably the worst use of stamina in the history of politics. May Booker erase it.
Hope he gets some protracted rest soon. Then gently wake him up and tell him he’s leader of the Senate Democrats. Well done Senator Booker!
Update: he’s now achieved the 24 hour mark, now going for the thurmond record… really hope he doesn’t injure himself.
man… all that and utterly forgiving too:
At the exact moment when he surpassed the previous record – held by Republican senator Strom Thurmond, who gave a 24 hour and 18 minute long speech filibustering the Civil Rights Act in 1957 – Booker forgave Thurmond for trying to block the protections that allowed him to be where he is today.
French hotel group Accor SAwarned that forward bookings from Europe to the US this summer are down 25%, as travelers that feel put off by President Donald Trump’s border clampdown divert to other locations.
Yeah, anyone who isn’t a citizen or a multi-generation white, cis, straight American is in trouble right now (the most egregious example being the Native Americans being picked up by ICE…).
People have long said that we wouldn’t have real accountability for corporate crimes until there was a death penalty for corporations, but it looks like we also need a Luigi* for corporations…
*Allegedly.
Given previous pardons, that’s almost certainly true, or at the very least someone who did so lobbied on their behalf. The corruption is utterly blatant now.
