Given Trump’s ineptitude in foreign affairs, we probably will.
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I don’t doubt.
But just to make sure we’re not talking at cross-purposes: I’m not saying this incident wasn’t about race. I think it likely was. I’m just saying that the skin-colour of the ICE agents doesn’t really affect whether it was or wasn’t.
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a French citizen staying in Canada,
That one fact alone is enough to make any American’s head explode.
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Good point. The only answer to that is Madeline Albright’s ghoulish response to dead children in Iraq as a result of US sanctions. Lift the blockade.
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FTFY.
Reasonable US citizens with a more nuanced worldview tend to understand that intersectionality is a real thing.
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Reasonable & Intersectionality in the same sentence, I just dam near fainted.
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Could have been worse. remember Maher Arar, sent to be tortured in Syria.
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¡Ya Basta! This has to stop now. mango mussolini and the pale rider pence have to be shut down! The facism isseeping into all areas of government. Punch a facist today!.. at least metaphysically. Don’t get yo ass in jail.
There will be protests at the ICE office in SF during pride this weekend. It’s close to the parade route.
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I think the bigger takeaway is that someone wanting to smuggle drugs, weapons, or a small nuke into the USA could simply walk it across some forest.
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Tone deaf rebuttal is tone deaf. A.F. 
Not to mention that suspicious French accent.
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Big words, me not understand /s
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Roger That!
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She must have had some real sophisticated streamlined REI backpack if she was carrying a nuke while trail running.
The French are known for wanting to sneak backpack nukes into the US. Didn’t John le Carré write about that?
Drugs will always make their way in. There’s no way to make our borders that non-porous.
And we have plenty of weapons within the country all ready. An influx of more isn’t necessary for harm to be done.
The bigger issue is rather that border patrol, ICE, the police are all behaving in an ever increasingly sociopathic manner. I was at the Warriors victory parade in Oakland. Apparently they did well with some sportball thing. I don’t know, I was just following a friend. There were surveillance towers erected in the street, cops going around in vehicles that would be more at home in occupied Iraq than the bay area. I swear I saw a police surveillance drone. What the fuck!? This is nuts! I don’t want to live in a fascist police state. I’m also not going to give up and leave. I want this country to back off from the totalitarian precipice.
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That crossing seems pretty well marked. Here’s the spot in question:
https://plus.google.com/photos/photo/112713779681128265542/6235054507022218370
In addition to the border sign next to the train tracks, there’s a huge arch, big Welcome to America signs, and presumably a long line of cars just a couple hundred feet away.
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I smell a business opportunity. Maybe a phone app? Lots of runners will listen to music on a phone anyway. It just needs a map integration which warns you when you are abut to cross a national boundary.
Hard for me to test in Australia though.
You’d have to get the nuke into Canada first.
It doesn’t seem like it would be too difficult to put a sign saying You are now entering the USA on every (or most) bush trails which cross the border.
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If she was a car or a train, she might just have noticed those. But the article quite clearly says she was running down the beach when she crossed the border.
(And seriously, as a european in the US you become desensitised to flags & signs very quickly. They’re freaking everywhere!)
A large amount of the world’s longest land border is unmarked. A large part of it is also prime daysailer/pleasure-craft territory. Perfectly innocent transgressions can & will happen. It would save time & money for all involved - and your taxes! - if just a modicum of common sense could be applied.
Even if you’re at the staunch end of border policy, every dollar that could be saved with a stern word and a pointing finger on the canuck border, is a dollar that could be better used on the southern border.
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Stop; you’re being far too reasonable and level-headed in your counterargument to mindless justification of bad behavior…
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Canadian study permits are suuuper easy to get, at least coming from most industrialized countries. When I moved there for grad school, I went to the consulate months ahead of time and they acted like I had lost my mind. Turns out I just had to fill out some paperwork at the border on the day I moved up!
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