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Re:German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigr... by HackerThemAll on Sunday March 02, 2025 @07:28AM (#43229791)
The thing is, in Europe, precisely in European Union, people can travel and work freely with minimum formalities across all 28 EU countries and in Norway. It's easy for European citizen (and the person in question was from Germany which is an EU member) to forget that some countries are still that deeply not civilized.

Notwithstanding that, the person should just be deported immediately, but instead was detained for multiple weeks. Is it how it supposed to be dealing with visitors?

Is America great again already?

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Re:German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigr... by alephnerd on Sunday March 02, 2025 @07:30AM (#43229813)
As I mentioned before, your EU countries treat non-Western nationals like me in a similarly degrading manner. So I absolutely am getting shachenfreude.

Why give this German chick a pass when your governments do the same (or pay the Turks, Libyans, and Moroccans to do your dirty work)?

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Re:German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigr... by fishmaster on Sunday March 02, 2025 @07:33AM (#43229846)
> shachenfreude

You might want to look up big words before using them.

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Re:German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigr... by twh1293819 on Sunday March 02, 2025 @07:38AM (#43229893)
Because the EU does not treat US citizens in this way and on average it is far more unlikely that a German wants to be an illegal immigrant in the US. It is not hard to understand.

You know how Germany treats refugees? They let them stab 2 year old children and hide their identity in the press so as not to offend them.

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Re:German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigr... by alephnerd on Sunday March 02, 2025 @07:41AM (#43229912)
And it's people like you who make me happen a German is treated like this.

> You know how Germany treats refugees? They let them stab 2 year old children and hide their identity in the press so as not to offend them

I'm a Brown American, so this only reduces my sympathy for someone like the person in the article.

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Re:German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigr... by HackerThemAll on Sunday March 02, 2025 @07:32AM (#43229826)
Don't get me started on how non-Western nationals treat EU countries and citizens.
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Re:German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigr... by mytailorisrich on Sunday March 02, 2025 @07:37AM (#43229882)
"still that deeply not civilized."

All countries, including EU countries put restriction on foreigners coming for work and require specific visas. And rightly so.

Not sure how to interpret your quip...

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