Canadian mom and daughter detained by ICE driving from baby shower

[Swede]

The mother and daughter are being held at the Rio Grande Valley Central Processing Center in McAllen, Texas. Colloquially known as Ursula, for its Ursula Avenue address, it came under fire during the first Trump administration for housing children in chain-link fencing akin to cages. It reopened in 2022 after renovations that included removing chain-link fencing.

“It’s no place for a seven-year-old to be,” Edward said.
Tania’s mother, Heather Fleck, spoke with CTV News from Naramata, B.C., by phone. She calls it “mind-boggling” that ICE would take a seven-year-old child into custody.

“She’s on the spectrum,” Fleck said of her granddaughter, Ayla. “This is going to be devastating.”

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/7-year-old-canadian-mom-detained-by-ice-last-weekend-stepfather/

[Figarosmom]

1. We are a terrible country now.

It's so sad.

[Passages]

2. Top priority, inflict pain and suffering.

Sick bastards.

[Wounded Bear]

3. "On the spectrum" means "fits the profile"...nt

[Speaks2]

4. Autistic

I took that to mean the daughter was somewhere on the autism spectrum. The context works better that way.

[stopdiggin]

5. What .. ? The profile of - - seven year olds .. ? Dayum .. ! (that's a new one!)

[Ford_Prefect]

6. The Gestapo hates all who are "different". IMO her US and Canadian ID should have been enough but that never stops the

intentionally cruel.

[Bev54]

8. There is a white young male (40ish and Canadian) that has been held in a cage in Texas now for 5 months

He has been working in the US for years, for an oil company and is from Edmonton. He has a partner and children in the US, has all the proper paperwork so it is not those that are different, it is those that they can grab at any moment. People are subject to the asshole they happen to run into.

[Bev54]

7. And owners of tourist sites like Vegas, Florida and Arizona wonder why Canadians and other country's citizens

are no longer visiting the US. I am so sick of them blaming it on the exchange rate, it has never been about the exchange rate, we were visiting when the exchange rate was worse. It is not only because Trump has shit on us, along with the treatment from his MAGA minions, it is the treatment of people like this. I will seriously scream at any Canadian I know, that makes the decision to vacation in the US.

[IronLionZion]

9. Dangerous criminals, both of them

Kurland says it’s not uncommon for ICE to detain entire families as they sort through an immigration situation – a process which can take days, weeks or months.

He says even a Canadian with the right U.S. paperwork is “in jeopardy.”

“You’re a stranger in a strange land.”

Sounds like they have papers and are here legally.

[Bayard]

10. Dad needs to take his family and immigrate to Canada

Its not safe here. I would like to see ICE officials charged with child abuse.