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USA Today: Tourists detained by ICE say they were treated like ‘the worst criminal’

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Uncommon detainees are bringing new attention to the U.S. immigration detention system

A British backpacker. A Harvard researcher. A Canadian actress. An Australian mixed martial arts coach. Dozens of international college students.

The Trump administration’s sweeping immigration-and-visa crackdown has begun ensnaring a class of people long-accustomed to being welcomed with open arms into the United States.

And those uncommon detainees are bringing new attention to the often-harsh U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention system, where people can be held without charge indefinitely, sometimes in shocking conditions, or abruptly removed from the country.

This type of treatment has long been the case in ICE detention, but the people held by the government often didn’t have the resources ‒ the access, language or middle-class expectations ‒ to denounce the conditions.

Now, with President Donald Trump’s crackdown, native English speakers, people with PhDs, and others are getting the word out to a broader public about a system they describe as arbitrary and punishing ‒ although ICE detention is not supposed to resemble prison.

“It’s insane how easily someone can take away your freedom, lock you in a federal prison, without a clear reason. No explanation. No warning,” ….

Tourists detained by ICE say they were treated like ‘the worst criminal’
Uncommon detainees are bringing new attention to the U.S. immigration detention system

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/04/12/ice-tourist-detention-border-trump-immigration/82740260007

Mediaite: The Wall Street Journal Torches Trump for ‘Hurting His Own Cause and Country’ Instead of China: ‘Making It Up as He Goes’

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The Wall Street Journal continued its assault on President Donald Trump’s trade policy in a new editorial questioning if he even has a “China trade strategy.”

“It’s all going according to plan, says the White House, and you almost have to smile at this spin in trying to sell President Trump’s partial tariff reversal this week as a triumph,” began the Journal in its opening salvo. “The reality is that Mr. Trump is making it up as he goes, and it would help if he had an actual strategy to deal with China in particular.”

After noting that Trump has escalated his trade war with China, it went on to submit that it isn’t clear whether the administration seeks “complete decoupling” or a “trade deal” with the Chinese.

The Wall Street Journal Torches Trump for ‘Hurting His Own Cause and Country’ Instead of China: ‘Making It Up as He Goes’
The Wall Street Journal continued its assault on Donald Trump’s trade policy in a new editorial questioning if Trump even has a “China trade strategy.”
The Wall Street Journal Torches Trump for ‘Hurting His Own Cause and Country’ Instead of China: ‘Making It Up as He Goes’

CNBC: Delta CEO says Trump tariffs are hurting bookings as airline pulls 2025 forecast

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  • Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian called President Donald Trump’s tariffs “the wrong approach.”
  • The airline cut its growth plans and said it can’t reaffirm its 2025 financial guidance.
  • Delta last month lowered its first-quarter forecast due to disappointing bookings.
Delta CEO says Trump tariffs are hurting bookings as airline pulls 2025 forecast
Delta said it couldn’t reaffirm its 2025 financial guidance.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/09/delta-air-lines-dal-1q-2025-earnings.html

Americans Are Behaving As If They’re Going Into a Recession, Delta CEO Says
Corporate and domestic leisure travel has stalled since late February, according to Delta, the first major airline to release earnings since widespread tariffs were announced.

https://www.investopedia.com/americans-are-behaving-as-if-theyre-going-into-a-recession-delta-ceo-says-11711319

Delta warns of ‘economic uncertainty’ and ‘stalled growth’ in new recession alarm bell | CNN Business
Delta Air Lines warned that revenue could fall in the current quarter and that “growth has largely stalled,” forcing it to drop plans to offer more seats to passengers, in another warning sign about a possible recession hitting even businesses not directly impacted by recent tariffs.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/09/business/delta-earnings-economic-warning/index.html

Major furniture store announces closure as they fire all staff citing Trump’s tariffs on Mexico

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A major furniture retailer is closing its doors by the end of the year, they say, making the announcement this week as they also lay off all of their staff members

Progressive Furniture has become one of the first U.S. companies to announce that they’ll be shutting down and laying off all 30 employees by year’s end – citing tariffs on their source factory. It comes as the economist whose work inspired Trump’s tariff plan says the White House got it ‘wrong’.

Progressive Furniture is a branch of Sauder Woodworking located in Claremont, North Carolina. They’re the world’s seventh-largest furniture manufacturer, selling their wares at Walmart, Target, and Home Depot.

Major furniture store closes and fires all staff citing Trump’s tariffs
A major furniture retailer is closing its doors by the end of the year, they say, making the announcement this week as they also lay off all of their staff members

https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/major-furniture-store-announces-closure-1077403

New York Post: Kristi Noem [Bimbo #2] dodges kicks from migrant suspect as she leads ICE deportation raids in Phoenix

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Couldn’t happen to a more deserving wench. Any dirtbag that shoots pet puppies and goats deserves to be kicked around the block and then some.

The Post was there as she dodged kicks from a suspect wearing slip-on shoes and gamely told him, “You’re not scaring me with your Croc.”

Aim better next time, Bubba. She deserves it!

The multi-agency task force — led by Phoenix Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and joined by a coterie of federal law enforcement and immigration agencies — nabbed three illegal immigrant felons with extensive criminal histories.

Wow! 100 law enforcement officers to nab 3 illegal immigrants! What an efficient use of manpower! Not!

But it’s what one expects with Bimbo #2 running the show, when she’s not shooting pet puppies and goats.

Exclusive | Kristi Noem dodges kicks from migrant suspect as she leads ICE deportation raids in Phoenix
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem Noem led about 100 federal agents on an early morning raid Tuesday in Arizona’s capital, where they nabbed three illegal migrants wanted …

https://nypost.com/2025/04/08/us-news/kristi-noem-dodges-kicks-from-migrant-suspect-as-she-leads-ice-deportation-raids-in-phoenix

Mpneywise: Air travel between the US and Canada is set to plunge 75% and domestic tourism has also slowed — how to plan your trips as Trump’s policies hit travel demand

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Forward bookings for flights between Canada and the U.S. in coming months have plunged by as much as 75% compared with the same period in 2024, according to OAG, a global travel data provider.

In February, the number of Canadians crossing the land border into the U.S. dropped almost 500,000 compared to the same period last year, according to data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) — reaching levels not seen since the height of the Covid-19 border closures.

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“A 10% reduction in Canadian travel could mean 2.0 million fewer visits, $2.1 billion in lost spending and 14,000 job losses,” according to the U.S. Travel Association, which noted that Canada is the top source of international visitors to the country, with 20.4 million visits in 2024.

Does Trump care?

Probably not!

Air travel between the US and Canada is set to plunge 75% and domestic tourism has also slowed — how to plan your trips as Trump’s policies hit travel demand
Domestic tourism has slowed as U.S. consumers lose confidence.

Air travel between the US and Canada is set to plunge 75% and domestic tourism has also slowed — how to plan your trips as Trump’s policies hit travel demand

Jasmine Mooney, Canadian actress, jailed 12 days after trying to renew visa at border, deported

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Canadian actress Jasmine Mooney said she felt like she had been kidnapped and forced to take part in “some sort of insane . . . psychological, social experiment”. She spent 12 days in detention after trying to renew an expired work visa at a border.

Avoid Trump’s Amerika. You’ll be sorry if you don’t.

‘I still have nightmares’: the tourists shackled and jailed for weeks at US borders

Becky Burke, Welsh backpacker, jailed for 19 days, deported “in leg chains, waist chains and handcuffs”

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Others have included Becky Burke, a Welsh backpacker who was detained for 19 days. Her parents complained she was taken to the airport for deportation “in leg chains, waist chains and handcuffs” after being accused of travelling on the wrong visa. “She’s not Hannibal Lecter,” her father Paul Burke told the BBC.

Avoid Trump’s Amerika. You’ll be sorry if you don’t.

‘I still have nightmares’: the tourists shackled and jailed for weeks at US borders

Lucas Sielaff, German tourist, shackled, interrogated, jailed for 16 days, deported.

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Lucas Sielaff was in a car queue waiting to cross from Mexico into the US when a border guard, seeing his German passport, began bombarding him with questions.

The 25-year-old tourist, who had been travelling with his American fiancée, was shackled, taken in for questioning, and then interrogated for hours. He spent 16 days in detention before being escorted to the airport and allowed to fly back to Germany earlier this month.

“I still have nightmares [about the experience] and I’m not yet back to normal,” Sielaff told the Financial Times. “I’m trying to process everything properly. It’ll take a while.”

Sielaff, who had a valid visa waiver entry permit and had visited the US several times previously, is one of a string of high-profile cases of European and Canadian tourists to have suffered hostile treatment at the hands of border guards since Donald Trump’s return to the White House.

Avoid Trump’s Amerika. You’ll be sorry if you don’t.

‘I still have nightmares’: the tourists shackled and jailed for weeks at US borders

Alternet: Another dumb Trump move that’s not just a gross mistake | Opinion

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In reality, slapping taxes on car parts imported from Canada and Mexico will hurt U.S. automakers harder than their competitors offshore because U.S. automakers have extensive operations in Canada and Mexico.

U.S. auto dealers have warned the Trump regime that tariffs will make cars less affordable to American consumers at a time when many Americans remain concerned about inflation.

Trump has waved away such concerns, insisting his tariffs will raise revenue — enabling him to lower taxes. The White House calculates that his tariffs could raise $100 billion annually. But the mere threat of such tariffs has erased more than $100 billion from the largest carmakers’ market capitalization in recent weeks.

Plus, as I’ve shown, his tariffs are a regressive tax that will be paid mostly by lower-income Americans, while his planned tax cuts will mostly benefit higher-income Americans.

The result: a huge hidden upward redistribution.

Another dumb Trump move that’s not just a gross mistake | Opinion
Trump said worldwide automobile taxes, er, tariffs, will come into effect next week, on April 3, alongside Trump’s so-called reciprocal tariffs, due April 2. The new 25 percent tariff will be applied to auto parts, as well. All other countries already face a 2.5 percent tariff on their passenger car exports to the United States and a 25 percent tar…

Another dumb Trump move that’s not just a gross mistake | Opinion