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Sunday, April 06, 2025

This UK citizen was shackled and transported to an ICE detention center where she was locked up for 19 days, even though she had the money to pay for a flight home and was desperate to leave the US. Now back home in the UK, Ms. Burke tells others thinking of going to Trumpf's America: Don't do it.

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I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre

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-- The Guardian (@theguardian.com) April 5, 2025 at 7:19 AM

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Sandpipers - Guantanamera (1966)
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Lyrics excerpt ...

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...
[Letra de "Guantanamera"]

[Coro]
Guantanamera, Guajira Guantanamera
Guantanamera, Guajira Guantanamera

[Verso 1]
Yo soy un hombre sincero
De donde crece la palma
Yo soy un hombre sincero
En donde crece la palma
Antes de morir me quiero
Echar mis versos del alma

[Coro]
Guantanamera, Guajira Guantanamera
Guantanamera, Guajira Guantanamera

[Verso 2]
Mi verso es de un verde claro
Y de un carmn encendido
Mi verso es de un verde claro
Y de un carmn encendido
Mi verso es un ciervo herido
Que busca en el monte amparo

[Puente]
The words mean "I am a truthful man from the land of the palm trees
And before dying, I want to share these poems of my soul
My poems are soft green
My poems are also flaming crimson
My poems are like a wounded fawn seeking refuge in the forest"

The last verse says, "Con los pobres de la tierra"
"With the poor people of this earth I want to share my fate
The streams of the mountains please me more than the sea"
(Con los pobres de la tierra
Quiero yo mi suerte echar
Con los pobres de la tierra
Quiero yo mi suerte echar
El arroyo de la sierra
Me complace ms que el mar)
...



A song I remember prominently from my childhood ...

#1 | Posted by lamplighter at 2025-04-06 04:02 AM | Reply

#1: www.uwrf.edu

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-06 04:13 AM | Reply

#1 SPAM. WTF what kind of drugs are you on? This is not a music thread.

#3 | Posted by shoeless at 2025-04-06 08:32 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#3-it's not a complaint department either. Are your shoe-less shoes too tight?

#4 | Posted by Yodagirl at 2025-04-06 06:21 PM | Reply

I'm waiting for a white U.S. citizen to get mugged by ICE-unbelievable...

#5 | Posted by Yodagirl at 2025-04-06 06:22 PM | Reply

This cost taxpayers how much, Republicans?

I have been saying this for as long as I've been here:
Republicans will gladly pay extra, just to be cruel.

#6 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-06 06:26 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

And the damage done to our relationship with our allies will take GENERATIONS to repair, if ever. Canada may now never be an ally and might well go the way of Mexico, requiring visas to enter.

And we haven't even seen the EU response to the tariff disaster. That will probably cause a full-blown market crash, if that doesn't happen on its own Monday.

#7 | Posted by e1g1 at 2025-04-06 06:38 PM | Reply

"damage done to our relationship with our allies"

People who have no friends
don't understand the value
of friends.

#8 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-06 06:41 PM | Reply

Exclusive trading blocs will bury us as Khrushchev threatened to do, but without firing a shot.

#9 | Posted by Yodagirl at 2025-04-06 06:41 PM | Reply

Why would Canada do this to the poor thing?! Disgraceful!

My favorite part of the article is
"Her first host had a transgender friend whose passport had been seized after she tried to change the name on it. "
-yeah I don't think you can do that LOL

But yes, Becky, exchanging work for food and lodging is work, not tourism. exchanging work for food and lodging is what we do here.

#10 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-04-06 09:43 PM | Reply

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