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From the Mars Society main website: "PLEASE NOTE ALL TALKS WILL BE IN-PERSON THIS YEAR. THERE IS NO VIRTUAL OPTION TO PRESENT."
With everything the current US government is doing, I do not feel safe travelling to the US. News reports of a Canadian actress who was sent to film a scene in Mexico, but when she tried to return was arrested by border security. She's white, speaks English, has a Canadian passport, and a work visa to work in the US. She crossed the border at a regular border crossing and reported to US customs. Yet she was arrested, incarcerated in a concrete cell for 11 days.
I do not feel safe travelling to the US. And virtual presentation is not an option. Too bad. :'(
CBC: Canadian detained for 11 days by U.S. immigration speaks out for others stuck in limbo
Jasmine Mooney's smile went viral after the 35-year-old Canadian was taken into U.S. custody at the Mexican border in March, but her story is now whispered in fear.
On March 3, Mooney tried to get her work visa renewed, entering at an immigration office at the Mexico-San Diego border, against a U.S. lawyer's advice. Instead she ended up being denied, and then, all of a sudden, detained.
Mooney spent 11 days in custody — off and on in cement cells she says are dubbed "ice boxes" — with little more than a thin foil emergency blanket. Mooney says she faced numerous transfers, humiliating medical tests, degrading treatment and no answers — despite pleas to let her pay for her own flight home.
She at first refused food and couldn't sleep but then forced herself to get up and help others.
"It breaks you. That place breaks you into a million pieces. It is so disgusting what goes on in there," Mooney told CBC News in an interview on Thursday.
Her case is one of a series of instances involving non-U.S. travellers that has travellers and legal experts concerned.
There's more to the news story. This is the first short bit.
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It's not just foreigners. American citizens have been detained just for+ the color of their skin. I suspect they have tried to deport more than one. Pretty soon it won't be skin color, it will be for opposing Trump. Which means me. And I fear for my wife, who was born in Japan, but made a naturalized citizen as an infant. The parallel to the Nazification of Germany in the 1930's is just too eerily close!
I think you are right, Rob. Do not risk coming here. Not until and unless we can get rid of this dictator, and all the minions who support him and keep him in power.
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