New Zealand woman and six-year-old son detained for three weeks by Ice in US enduring ‘terrifying’ ordeal www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Sarah Shaw, who has a US visa and lives in Washington state, was detained after attempting to re-enter US from Canada
Why would anyone from overseas want to vacation in the US at this point in time, especially with the possibility of ending up in a wire cage?
Horrifying.
They took her as a token. We all know who they’re after.
GEE, I WONDER WHY NOBODY wants to travel to Trump/Miller/GOP/Project 2025' fascist authoritarian Prison Police State any more? USA Tourism is as good as dead thanks to corrupt, maleficent, misanthropic, narcissistic, child-raping, Russian owned, sociopathic, dictator wannabe traitor Trump & cronies.
Regardless of how one feels about undocumented ppl (& the ways they are being treated or mistreated), these stories about ppl who have fully followed immigration law or even some who are US citizens, but are still caught up in the web of an out-of-control ICE force, are truly appalling. Not America!
THIS IS WHY NO ONE SHOULD BE COMING TO THE US….. FOR ANY REASON.
i’m so ashamed of what this country has become.
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why would any foreigner visit the US at this point.
ICE are Nazi thugs
Trump has unleashed an insanity that was already there.
This is just a training exercise for the brownshirts. They, and their $50B military level budget, will be coming for you next.
goddamn SHAME !!! 🤬🤬🤬🤬
Banana republic stuff. Appalling.
This is why you shouldn't go to the United States. It has become a fascist state where ordinary people can be arrested arbitrarily by government officials who are allowed to act in violation of the law on direct orders from a fascist president.
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I’ve tried to tell my overseas friends DO NOT COME HERE! At this point this type of thing has made the news enough times that I don’t even feel sorry for you if you get detained. You’ve been sufficiently warned.
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ICE is absolutely akin to the Nazi gestapo, and s. miller is remarkably like Goebels in many ways. I am aware miller is Jewish, which only makes his brutality more soul crushing and wrong. Been his fever dream since adolescence. The man should not have this power. Karma will surely come.
UK based, I tried to convince my mum not to go to a wedding to Arizona next Jan-Feb but I don’t think my extended family are taking my concerns seriously, she’s going with a group but I’m still very uneasy
People can't win- a visa, a 3 year work record, no criminal record - and it's still not good enough. The humiliation, lack of process and concern for the children, deprivation of phones and clothes are appalling. The US is off my wish list now. I'll be going back to Canada.
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I cannot understand there isn’t a huge group of armed men to storm the concentration camps. Sedate the alligators and hunt the guards/police/ICE.
DO NOT ALLOW CONCENTRATION CAMPS
ICE trying to to Human Trafficking her and her son.
What?! I am hearing about this for this for the first time! Truly horrific.
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Update on this story today:
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New Zealander Sarah Shaw and her son were detained by ICE at the Canadian border after she dropped off two of her kids at Vancouver International Airport.
Have ICE taken ANY blonde blue-eyed people yet?
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Anyone stupid enough to set foot in that "country" right now deserves whatever happens to them
Not long before random foreigners accused of spying……
Don’t come to America !
Almost makes you want to visit… Not a fucking chance with this regime in power. The US is going to implode itself it’s only a matter of time
Please, please, please don't travel here right now!!!
absolutely horrifying
Yet another reason not to be a tourist to the US 🚫🇺🇸
If this can happen to an attractive white woman who works in the US, pays taxes, is part of a union, has a visa with a six year old in tow, it can happen to anyone.
And much worse is happening as we speak to others who do not have her privilege.
Do.Not.Travel.To.The.US.
#cdnpoli
Travelling to the USA has become an absolute NO GO Let's spend the money somewhere else.
Thank you for all of your work.
OMG!
Boy we’re really cracking down on those hardened criminals.
OMG she's even an employee of the carcecal state.
'her employment at a maximum security juvenile facility'
A white person for once. Have the fascists run out of people of color to harass?
Only so they can say “See!! We’re not ONLY grabbing brown and black people!”
The lesson here for all of us? Don’t visit USA until Trump and Trumpism are just a distant bitter memory.
fucking nazis.
Thank you for covering and bringing to light this and all the many other horrific stories related to the policies of the deranged madmen in the WH.
Can't understand why the admin thinks this a winning policy. Everyone hates America. Farmers are screwed, tourism is down, the construction industry is slowing with labor shortages. And this is just one policy that sucks. I pray the GOP gets slayed in the mid terms
They write “Which way, American Man?” a direct reference to the book “Which Way, Western Man?” written by infamous white supremacist William Gayley Simpson and published by neo-Nazi and National Alliance founder William Luther Pierce.
The Department of Homeland Security invoked a notorious white supremacist text.
Write this down: None but the rich are safe, then again none but the rich have security teams.
Monsters.
The World Cup championships should be exciting and profitable and great for everybody. But not now, not with this xenophobic, fascist regime.
They did this to her woman from Australia too. She and her mother traveled to Hawaii so that she could see her US military husband. Her mother was deported and she was detained for I think I remember three weeks for no frigging reason at all.
The rest of the world should boycott the olympics and the world cup - spectators and participants.
Imagine how many are detained that the media doesn’t cover.
America, temporarily closed for fascism.
This is what happens when you have a security agency working to a quota. Like the NKVD under Stalin: daily quotas of arrests must be fulfilled, make up the numbers with random innocents if you need to.
NOT MY AMERICA!
Let’s get and keep all our tourist and investment money out of the US.
Everyone who does not understand that New Zealand must answer with significant retaliation, for instance by throwing out 10 or more Gringos, still does not understand the new reality of United Shitholes of America
Know that abductees have other children at home. They have pets at home dependent on their care. They have older family members, maybe someone with dementia who could be easily confused, who are in need of caregiving. No one talks or addresses these issues of abductees' home life. Ripple effects.
Until we resolve the mental health crisis that revealed 77 million of us are psychopaths…
I wouldn’t come here.
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@fifaworldcup26.bsky.social - I will be sending these examples to all the players of the Belgian national team & asking them to boycott games in the USA.
So who is going to protect Olympic athletes?
I've been to the US more than 10 times including a one month round trip but it's highly unlikely I will ever visit again. Sad to watch a country destroy itself and it must be really hard for the sane half of the US population.
This is why US tourism is down big time and it's going to get worse.
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It's not safe to travel to the US.
... ICE is there to punish and scare all immigrants legal or not.
They are a gestapo with zero training and clearly only bullies hired to bully.
It’s all about terror and power. It’s North Korea and Russia, it’s every despot ever. What surprising is how unmoved America is by it all.
I have already written to FIFA and the IOC demanding that they withdraw the World Cup and Olympics from the Fascist States of America. I am only one voice but if enough of us do so we may just sway them.
Will this ever stop?
Terrible.
stop ice
Didn't AUS and NZ, along with other countries, warn their citizens against visiting the U.S. early this year? That said, I can only imagine the trauma of being detained by ICE or any agency. 😕😔
Anybody can become their target. The international isolation of the Trump US is it their goal ?
. To the World:
Boycott Trump's fascist America . . . in every way !
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No one should go to the US as a tourist for the next years to come.
WTF??? - The message I'm getting loud and clear ... Don't under any circumstance visit the USA ...
““It’s so heartbreaking now to see people who, like Sarah, are not only legal, but who are contributing to American society,”.
Why say this? Those there “legally” or not, “contributing” or not must be treated lawfully, or at least not kidnapped by gov. officials
Stop traveling to the US, it's unsafe
The free world needs to boycott any matches played on US soil during next year’s World Cup and the LA Olympics in 2028. President Pedo understands only money and violence, so spend your money in Mexico and Canada and avoid the US
I have an Australian friend married to a US citizen, lives in Atlanta. She has cancelled plans to visit family back in Aus, as very worried she won't be allowed to return to USA.
Imagine what they do to the brown skinned folks! 🤬
Yeah the United States just keeps making enemies out of what used to be friends. Australia and New Zealand have been stalwart friends since World War II. Fuckin #Rump
fascists
Everybody who can should leave.
The stuff nightmares are made of. Who would come here now ?!
How many actual criminals are running wild while this country spends our tax dollars tormenting innocent people for nothing
Why would anyone come to US?
More American tourism ads.
Lesson learned.. American government is bad. The Iraqis learned that as well.😆 @rennyfella.bsky.social
I like Americans and all the wonders that are available to experience there, but I refuse to visit a country run by an immoral, corrupt, racist, unbelievably irresponsible, and unhinged Dictator.
If they will arbitrarily detain & deport a lawful resident from an Anglo ally like New Zealand what evidence is there to suggest they will stop stop short of detaining & even deporting US citizens? Especially those who are not white or Anglo? Political opponents? Naturalized citizens?
just delete the US from your bucket list. Replace with Japan; Argentina; the real stuff…
That's great Trump, alienate all of our allies we've had for 100 years or longer. No one will have your back when your downfall comes!
One more reason not to travel the USA.
Trump is the dystopian nightmare.
This should never have happened but it did because American voters are appallingly ignorant and gullible. So tell me fuckwits, which category of "illegals" does this woman fall into? Murderer? Rapist? Drug lord? Gang member? Insane asylum escapee?
Hate to say this about my country, but I wouldn’t come here to visit or to live from another country right now. Would encourage folks to skip the 2026 World Cup and 2028 Olympics for their own safety with the perk that if they flop it will embarrass Epstein’s wingman.
Can these illegally detained person sue??
My nation has lost its mind
Well the World Cup should be interesting !
Why should I travel to the US at the moment?? It´s like Germany in the 1930th... We still don´t know, if it´s going full Nazi or just slightly Nazi...
What’s strange to me is that there is no feedback from the governments they are coming from ?
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That's not white, I mean, right.
Can New Zealand sue America or something? Horrific!
Don't go to the US people !! It's not safe. Be smart, cancel your trip, revise your plans.
There are better places to spend your money anyway.
SHAME on US!
This is why and everyone I know well won’t visit America until this regime is long gone. I’d be sent to some strange prison for just having anti trump social media comments. Not willing to risk it.
It’s a campaign of terror.
Detaining foreign nationals a feature not a bug in Stephen Miller's America.
hideous cruelty.
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This administration is a totally traitorous, criminal, and. evil enterprise. May we bring them to
a just end as soon as pissible.
Again, happened to me in 2010 for 2 weeks and so this isn't new. What's new is the increase in scale of such occurrences. I hope she and her child come home safely.
Fight the American fascists
Who is next? Sarah Wynn-Williams this is the way of live of your former employer.
There is zero reason to detain someone for 3 weeks unless it’s to make money for the private prison millionaires. Anything can be resolved quickly.
America -- my country of origin -- is now a "shithole country" thanks to Dear Fuhrer and his band of ghoulish minions. Fuck this shit.
Everybody in NZ is now aware of this criminal abduction of a New Zealand citizen by Trump’s ICE goons. You can be sure that tourism from NZ to the U.S. has already dropped by 50% and will keep dropping. Imagine working in the tourist & international convention biz in the U.S. these days.
“New Zealand’s foreign affairs ministry said it is in contact with Shaw, but cannot comment further on the case due to privacy issues.”
There’s no reason the NZ govt can’t say “This imprisonment is an outrageous abuse of the longstanding & friendly relationship between New Zealand and the U.S.”
Had she dated both donald and Melania, all this would pass.
46% of US women who voted, voted for donald, that should be a very concerning issue DNC.
I hope NZ closes its borders to Americans, all the way up to the top. Foreign countries need to fight back. I love visiting NZ, but would gladly see them do this, until FatHitler is out of office. Every “ICE”man needs to face a tribunal.
Nobody should travel to this shithole country.
It’s not safe.
A national political divorce solves this problem.
Trump the dictator
This is really sad - for the US, I don’t know why you’d go there and risk it. As for people with valid visas and still persecuted.
ICE is nothing but a band of maggot incel pigs in masks. Cowards and couch-bangers.
What was her crime? Eyebrows or being more attractive than the average Republican hag who looks like they employ Skeletor as their stylist?
Funny, she doesn't look brown. They must have had their Foster Grants on.
If she chooses to stay, she’s making a decision to put herself and her family at risk. When the opportunity to flee a Nazi country arises, you take it before it’s too late
The policies won't be reversed. They never are. Democrats are too frightened of being called weak on immigration to ever undo the things Republicans do.
As we tell the trolls-look, she's White not Brown. She has a valid visa to be in the US, she went to an airport to fly them out, not in TX. Can we send the all the bills for travel & federal lawsuits to Kristi Noem, Trump, Homan and Hegseth? Remove them all. NONE are qualified to hold their job
I have relatives and many friends in the 🇺🇸 Unfortunately the chance of visiting them is nonexistent! I don’t think that the political situation will get better anytime soon. By that time I’ll either be 6 feet under or in some retirement home.
Is this an example of removing the “worst of the worst,” Ms. Noem?
I hope she sues the living b-jebus out of them.
Revolting.
I’m not visiting North Korea either.
Boycott the US Boycott the Olympics when they come to the US. Make the capitalist feel it and then maybe the fascism will end.
Could be enough to declare a War.
Anyone planning to holiday or work in the USA should definitely consider the risks involved
the relentless cruelty is the point. they could sent her back the next day instead of keeping her in a concentration camp for a month.
Do not come to the United States if you’re not an American. You’re risking your freedom for nothing.
If ICE really needs more non-Latin American cases in its portfolio, they really ought to smash Vlad Putin when he arrives in Alaska. Just knock him down and put him in a detention cell with a no-mattress bed. Should end the war in Ukraine right quick.
Every single country should have a Travel Advisory for anyone going to the USA.
Yup. Round up a few white people to make it look good.
#BoycottUSA until we kick out our fascist regime.
This is unbelievable! Why would anyone risk travelling to America?
None of this stops until he’s gone. Call your reps & GOP leaders ask how long they are going to run cover for trumps sex trafficking.
Your reps and GOP leaders can be reached 202-224-3121
Tell them to remove Trump by impeachment/treason charges
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America is a repugnant country
This is why I am not traveling.
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If her I-360 was still pending, she couldn’t legally leave the U.S., right? So maybe she risked being denied re-entry — but instead ended up detained by ICE?
This abuse is about as undemocratic as it can get. The great democracy, eh? Land of the brave, land of the free, my arse.
Devastating.
For the individuals wrongfully detained and sent to far-off prisons, barbarically run by for-profit companies.
Also for the American university system and tourism economy.
If I wasn't a US citizen, I wouldn't travel here, and I sure as hell wouldn't send my kids to college here.
"New Zealanders are so dangerous", said no one ever.
I honestly can't understand why people from non US countries are going to the US, never mind WITH KIDS 🤷
Absolutely horrible. What in the world is wrong with those people who are doing this kind of thing???
