Mastodawn

Do not travel to the USofA, part XXXIV:

- doing everything right is not enough
- white skin does not protect you
- detention may mean a cell shared with 70 people, fighting over food, without medical supplies
- your signature will get forged if you refuse
- judge orders for release on bail are ignored

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/09/irish-man-seamus-culleton-ice-detention

Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months

Seamus Culleton has lived in US for two decades, married a citizen and runs a plastering business but faces deportation

The Guardian

Stefan Eissing Feb 13

An update to the story in the guardian. Seems his record was tainted by an Irish warrant from 2009.

Still will not go there, personally. But if you are without sins and a clean record in all databases, maybe you‘ll be fine.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/12/seamus-culleton-ice-detention-ireland-drug-charges

Irish man held in ICE detention was issued warrant over drug offense in 2009 in Ireland

Seamus Culleton has been held for five months despite having valid work permit and being married to US national

The Guardian

@icing If you are free of all sins you may enter the US and A.

If you thought of Trump kissing Putin, you have sined gravely and may not enter the US and A.

Renke Meuwese Feb 10

RE: https://chaos.social/@icing/116045235392496155

@icing this is the *best possible scenario* now. They had absolutely nothing on this guy, neither legally nor in terms of prejudice, and he *still* was kept in horrific conditions for five months. #usa

Riley S. Faelan Feb 10

@icing Hey, in the nineteenth century, there were a number of Racy Theorists in North America who argued that the Irish weren't truly hwite, sometimes on the basis of Catholicism.

Tor Iver Wilhelmsen Feb 10

@riley @icing Yes, people forget that the new Klan that arose in the early 20th century also hated Catholics and Jews, not just colored people. They wanted a land of white Protestants.

Androcat Feb 10

@icing They were fast to reach the level of Russia.

Of course, they had practice, since they have been applying the same corrupt system to PoC for centuries.

@[email protected] Guess the US is back on their esoteric racism again with reclassifying the Irish as insufficiently white.

*sigh*Ber nard Feb 10

@icing Dutch government: All green! No restrictions.
https://www.nederlandwereldwijd.nl/reisadvies/verenigde-staten-van-amerika

Reisadvies Verenigde Staten van Amerika | Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken | NederlandWereldwijd

Het reisadvies voor Verenigde Staten van Amerika van het Nederlandse ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken. Voor de beste voorbereiding op uw reis.

@brnrd @icing Just stay away from France.

@icing He was even a Patriots fan, for goodness' sake.

Graeme 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Feb 10

@icing Yep Avoid Trumpistan like the plague.

CockneyLaurie Feb 10

@pa27 @icing "but authorities continued to detain Culleton, initially without explanation."
Maybe here lies that explanation in part
https://nebula.tv/videos/legaleagle-this-lawyer-stayed-with-ice-and-it-ruined-her-life

LegalEagle — This Lawyer Stayed With ICE and It Ruined Her Life

Julie Le told the court her job working for ICE sucks. That's putting it mildly.

Nebula

Graeme 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Feb 10

@cockneylaurie @icing Good grief. It's almost beyond belief.

Guillotine Jones, Flâneur Feb 10

@icing
Welcome to the US of A.
Abandon all hope of justice, ye who enter here.

Trump & Epstein: Biz partners.Feb 10

@icing
...bringing the list of countries (once our closest allies) who now have #TravelBans warning their citizens against traveling to the U.S. to 13: 🤦‍♂️ #DisasterPresidency #DictatorDon

Australia
Belgium
Canada
China
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Ireland
Netherlands
New Zealand
Portugal
United Kingdom

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/travel-preparation/the-full-list-of-countries-that-have-updated-their-us-travel-guidance/ar-AA1BIMHD

MSN

Truls (Klarname)Feb 10

@MugsysRapSheet Germany has no travel ban. They only have a general warning about domestic terrorism and warning that "demonstrations have sometimes led to violent clashes with immigration and security authorities."

The UK only repeats the general terrorism warning (probably written by the US government, as the wording is very similar to the one on the German site).

Trump & Epstein: Biz partners.Feb 10

@truls46
"Ban" was probably the wrong word. "Warning" would be more accurate.

Canada likewise does not "ban" people from visiting the U.S.. I doubt France or the UK do either.

Petra van Cronenburg Feb 10

@MugsysRapSheet The correct word is travel advice - you can edit your post.

Petra van Cronenburg Feb 10

@MugsysRapSheet No, that's not correct.
As you can read in your link, they have travel advices, no travel bans.
You are free to travel to the USA from the EU, you only have warnings how to pay attention.

@MugsysRapSheet @icing

I know as a Canadian I will not go back to the U.S. again.

@MugsysRapSheet No ban or warning from the Dutch government.

https://www.nederlandwereldwijd.nl/reisadvies/verenigde-staten-van-amerika

Reisadvies Verenigde Staten van Amerika | Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken | NederlandWereldwijd

Het reisadvies voor Verenigde Staten van Amerika van het Nederlandse ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken. Voor de beste voorbereiding op uw reis.

Truth Or Consequences ✅ 🇺🇦Feb 10

If he had something critical of dear leader on his cell phone it's off to the concentration camps with him.

DoomsdaysCW Feb 10

WTF! TY for sharing this, @icing . I've been telling folks to stay away for a while now.

@icing Hahstag #4thReich

And they now want to know ALL your social networks/GAFAM silos accounts. Another reason to NEVER go there, at ANY price.

Richard W. Woodley ELBOWS UP 🇨🇦🌹🚴‍♂️📷 🗺️Feb 10

forgot

- you might be disappeared

Janne Internetistä Feb 10

@icing Ain’t nobody travelling there no mo’.

Petra van Cronenburg Feb 10

@icing and meanwhile, the German Federal Commissioner for Data Protection "has warned citizens of #Germany who wish to #travel to the USA to weigh up in advance whether they are prepared to share the data requested by the US authorities" https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/feb/10/russia-ukraine-war-us-talks-europe-live-updates-latest-news?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-698b2cd98f08990461b84305#block-698b2cd98f08990461b84305

#dataSecurity #safety #Reisen

Macron says Europe facing ‘profound geopolitical rupture’ amid changes in world order – Europe live

‘It is time for Europe to wake up … If we do not decide for ourselves, we will be swept away,’ the French president said

the Guardian

Paul Hutchings Feb 10

@icing Hell, I'm a US citizen (for whatever the fuck that's still worth 🙄) living IN the US and I am refusing to fly or travel within the country cause of this shit.

Like yea, I'm a white dude, but why would I subject myself to possibly still getting detained and locked up for any period of time due to these fuckheads

Darwin Woodka Feb 10

@studiop @icing

I'm an old white lady and I just look at them like they're nuts when they give me a hard time. If they're scared of me they've already lost.

Keith Varian Feb 10

@icing votevarian2026.com

Dave Pease ☑️Feb 10

@icing outrageous. The only thing this guy is guilty of is wearing a bad jersey

@icing
I have declined to go on any business trips to the US, that's the best I can do for now. My main goal now is to move on from the current role and thereby not be employed by an American entity, nor ever again

John Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺Feb 10

This couple should sue the US government for the total cost of destroying their livelihood, plus punitive damages.

Since Trump can sue the government that he runs, that should be enough precident for anyone else.

EndicottRoad59 Feb 10

@icing How many descendants of Irish immigrants are in the current administration? And do we deport them, too?

SamuelJohnson Feb 10

@EndicottAuthor @icing Kennedy is one.

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/09/newly-public-emails-sure-make-it-look-like-rfk-jr-lied-to-congress-about-his-trip-to-samoa-in-2019/

Newly Public Emails Sure Make It Look Like RFK Jr. Lied To Congress About His Trip To Samoa In 2019

Way back in 2018, a series of events in Samoa brought about the country’s worst measles outbreak in years. It started in July of that year when two 1-year old children who were given a measle…

Techdirt

EndicottRoad59 Feb 11

@samueljohnson @icing He probably did.

@icing - Stinking ICE Holes. They even got away with Murder in Minnesota.

Killa Koala Feb 10

@icing I've noticed a sudden increase in ads for travel to the US in Australia recently. Good luck with that and my sympathies for anyone working in the US travel industry — you might like to consider migrating.

e. hashman 🇵🇸Feb 10

@icing look, this is not at all an excuse for the man's horrific treatment, but it is simply not accurate to say he "did everything right" by the immigration system rules. The article states he overstayed a visa, and he's been living in the US for 2+ decades without a green card.

It only takes a few years at most for a marriage-based application, implying he probably was living in the US without legal status for over a decade, and only got his work authorization in the last couple years. It just does not take 20 years to get a marriage-based green card.

You are not going to get arrested as a European for simply visiting the US without a criminal record or prior visa violations. I'm an immigrant to the US and have spoken extensively with an immigration lawyer on this topic. The biggest risk right now is to Spanish-speakers and folks who aren't white.

Salearlyman Feb 10

@ehashman @icing I think you're nitpicking here. The US immigration system is a bureaucratic nightmare. If this guy was not legally in the US why did he get a work permit? It makes no sense that you can be deportable and have legal status at the same time unless you've intentionally designed a system that lets you arbitrarily abuse people, which absolutely applies to the US immigration system. Nobody is arguing that people who aren't white are being disproportionally targeted and are suffering worse abuses.

e. hashman 🇵🇸Feb 10

@icing @duk3luk3 > If this guy was not legally in the US why did he get a work permit?

Probably because he only married a US citizen recently and therefore wasn't previously eligible for any work permit, and was working under the table before which was tolerated because he's a white European who wasn't committing crimes?

The US immigration system is absolutely miserable but it's true of of most countries that you can't overstay a tourist visa and then stick around and work without authorization for two decades. I am a US LPR, I submitted over 200 pages for my application, and I have been following immigration abuses since the Obama era. And yet no one was saying "don't come to the US" when this was happening to non-white folks over the past decade+.

Stefan Eissing Feb 11

@ehashman The visa overstay mentioned in the article was another person who got jailed for 100 days for a 3 day overstay.

The main person in the article was following the pricess and had his final hearing scheduled when ICE snatched him.

You, Sir, seem to want to make excuses for the regime.

e. hashman 🇵🇸Feb 11

@icing me (opening words): "this does not at all excuse ..."
you: "you seem to making excuses"

Well given that you aren't actually reading what I wrote I don't think we're going to have much of a conversation

@icing They're definitely spreading measles and other communicable diseases around on purpose.

scuti🌱Feb 11

@icing
Finally.
ICE stopped being white supremacist.