Aral BalkanFeb 10

I’m actually shocked that folks I speak to here in Ireland are still planning holidays in the USA.

Here’s a testimonial you might not find on Tripadvisor:

“like a concentration camp, absolute hell” – Seamus Culleton

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

Seriously, what’re you all thinking? DO. NOT. VISIT. THE. USA. FFS!

#Ireland #USA #ICE #fascism

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
Show threaddcatoffm

@aral

What you have to realize is ICE has what amounts to a no constitution zone anywhere within a hundred miles of an international border, including coastlines; they need no reason to stop you in here. This affects all of FL, MS, Louisiana, and NJ, petty much all of New England, most of CA, OR, and WA, NY (all of NYC), MI, WI, PA, large chunks of every other border state north and south.. basically about half the land mass and 9/10's the population.

I suppose Colorado is still okay to visit.

Feb 10 at 9:16pmFedilab
Show threadJanisFeb 11

@dcatoffm @aral Patches of CO, Eureka Springs, AR, Nashville, and probably Austin, TX. Lincoln, NE, too. Thank you for the reminder how beautiful our blue dots are.

Went to Lauren Bobert's district i n 2014. Just road tripping. It needs no ICE to be a hell hole. I've been in some dicey places. I have never gotten such a bad case of the creeps. The east strip from Denver to NE definitely registered, though.