A New Hampshire man with a green card was detained by immigration officers at Logan Airport and is being held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Donald W. Wyatt detention facility in Central Falls, Rhode Island.

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    Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.

    She said Schmidt told her immigration agents pressured him to give up his green card. She said he was placed on a mat in a bright room with other people at the airport, with little food or water, suffered sleep deprivation, and was denied access to his medication for anxiety and depression

    Oh, hell no. They tortured this guy. What. The. Fuck.

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    To everyone outside that shithole of a country: for the love of fuck stop visiting the US unless you have a reason. Its clear border security can do whatever the fuck they want with impunity. It isnt worth the risk. Let the country rot and leave them.

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      I’m a citizen and was planing to go to china for work to visit our office there. I have no concerns about China but I have major concerns about coming back to the US from china and being investigated be border “security” about why I was in china. This is insane.

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        That’s because the us is so filled with morons they can’t even do authoritarianism right. Legit not a single fucking brain cell involved in right winger bullshit. It’s all just morons being morons

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    I saw his mother’s post a couple days ago on social media. Since I couldn’t find a news story about it, I thought maybe it’s fake news like so much that proliferates on social media. Nope. It’s real.

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    Note that this guy is a white European. White Americans, they’re coming for you sooner than later. I hope you’re clear on that.

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      He’s gay and not Peter Thiel. Probably comfortable, without that amount of bribe donation money, political preference unknown.

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      It’s okay, America will think about rising up once half of them are dead in camps. They won’t go ahead with it, but they might consider it before realising it’s not following the decorum.

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    Welcome to America: where we can torture you first, before it’s determined illegal (and even then, barely or no repercussions).

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        Wonder if he had a gun and shot them on being illegally detained there would be a case for him? Cause it’s starting to seem that green card holders should only travel with guns if possible in case they get abducted by overzealous morons in immigration. If immigration agents got shot for trying to abduct people they’d think fucking twice (if they had any brain cells in the first place)