We are Inhuman

topic of immigration. We seem to think if someone is labeled an immigrant, or perhaps an illegal immigrant, that we can just treat them like human garbage. And I don't know if you're okay with that, but I am not okay with treating someone like human garbage when their only a fence is a paperwork problem, a paperwork problem that our government does nothing to help these people with, and a paperwork problem that doesn't even have to exist. I

don't normally read things on the show. I find that somewhat boring, but I read an article this morning written in the first person from a woman who went through this and never should and I want to share that article with you today and a few others. So you've probably heard she's been in the news. She is a Canadian actress and entrepreneur who was detained for two weeks, two weeks in our country, and you just won't believe the particulars.

properly processed. He claimed I also couldn't work for a company in the US that made use of hemp, one of the beverage's ingredients. For the company I work for. He revoked my visa on the spot and told me I could still work for the company from Canada, but if I wanted to return to the US, I would need to reapply. I was devastated. I had just started building a life in California. I stayed in Canada for the next few months and was eventually offered a similar

position with a different health and wellness brand. I restarted the visa process and returned to the same immigration office at the San Diego border, since they had processed my visa before and I was familiar with it. Hours passed with many confused opinions on my case. The officer I spoke to was kind but told me due to my previous issues, I needed to apply for my visa through the consulate. I told her I hadn't been made aware of that and had no problem doing it. Then she

said something strange. You didn't do anything wrong. You're not a criminal. I remember thinking, why would she say that? Of course I'm not a criminal. She then told me that they had to send me back to Canada. That didn't concern me. I assumed I would simply book a flight and go home. But as I sat searching for flights, a man approached me and said, come with me. There was no explanation, no warning. He led me to a room, took my belongings from my hands, and ordered me to

put my hands against the wall. A woman immediately began patting me down. The commands came rapid fire, one after another, two fast for me to process. They took my shoes, pulled out my shoelaces. What are you doing? Why is this happening, I asked, You're being detained. I don't understand. What does this mean? For how long? I don't know. That would be the response to nearly every question I would ask over the next two weeks.

been putting my grocery points on her account. I gave them her phone number. They handed me a mat and folded up sheet of aluminum foil. What's this, that's your blanket? I don't understand. I was taken to a tiny, freezing cement cell with bright fluorescent lights that never turned off and a toilet. There were five other women laying on the mats with the aluminum sheets wrapped over them, looking

like corpses. The guard locked the door behind me. For two days, we remained in that cell, only leaving briefly for food. The lights never turned off, we never knew what time it was, and no one answered any of our questions. No one in the cell spoke English, so I either tried to sleep or meditate to keep from having a breakdown. I didn't trust the food, so I fasted, assuming I wouldn't be there long. On the third day,

I was finally allowed to make a phone call. I called Brit and told her that I didn't understand what was happening, and no one would tell me where I when I was going home, and that she was my only contact. They gave me a stack of paperwork to sign and told me I was being given a five year ban unless I applied for re entry through the consulate.

would make me sick. The only available water came from the tap attached to the toilet in our cell, neither of which felt safe to drink. Eventually, I forced myself to step out, meet the guards and learn the rules. One of them told me no fighting. She said, I'm a lover, not a fighter, he laughed. I asked if there had ever been a fight in this unit. No, No one in this unit has a criminal record. That's when I started meeting the other women and hearing their stories,

and that's when I made a decision. I would never allow myself to feel sorry for my situation, no matter how hard this was. I had to be grateful because every woman I met was in an even more difficult position than mine. There were one hundred and forty of us in the unit. Many women had lived and worked in the US legally for years, but had overstayed their visas, often reapplying and being denied. They had all been detained

without warning. If someone is a criminal, I agree they should be taken off the streets, but not one of these women had a criminal record. These women acknowledged that they shouldn't have overstayed and took responsibility for their actions, but their frustration wasn't about being held accountable. It was about the endless bureaucratic limbo that they have been trapped in. I met a woman who had been on a road trip with her husband. She said they had ten year

work visas. While driving near the San Diego border, they made a mistake and got into the lane leading into Mexico. They stopped and told the agent they didn't have their passports on them, expecting to be redirected. Instead, they were detained. Both are pastors. I met a family of three who had been living in the US for eleven years with work authorizations. They paid taxes and were waiting for their

green cards. Every year, the mother had to undergo a background check, but this time she was told to bring her whole family. When they arrived, they were all taken into custody and told their status would now be processed from within the detention center. Another woman from Canada had been living in the US with her husband, who was

detained after a traffic stop. She admitted she overstate or visa and accepted that she would be deported, but she had then been stuck in the system for six weeks because she hadn't had her passport on her Who runs to the grocery store with your passport papers?

student visa for three days because of COVID. She then came back to the US on a new valid visa to finish her master's degree, but she was handed over to ICE because years previously had overstayed by three days. There were women who had been picked off the street, from their homes, from their workplaces. They had been there for a few weeks or up to eleven months. One woman's daughter was outside protesting.

tears streaming down their faces. These weren't happy tears. We were being transferred. I had no idea what was waiting for me next. Our next was Arizona, the San Luis Regional Detention Center. The transfer process lasted twenty four hours of sleepless, grueling ordeal. This time we were transported with men, roughly fifty of us, crammed into a prison bus, shackled around our waist, women in the front, men in the back.

We were bound in chains. When we arrived at our next destination, we were forced to go through the entire intake process again, medical exams, finger printing, pregnancy test. They had me pee into a dixie cup and stuck a pregnancy test in it.

was ice cold, and one blanket wasn't enough. Women laid curled into themselves, heads covered, looking like a room full of corpses. It was like the last jail in the world. Thirty of us shared a room. We were given one styrofoam cup for water and one plastic spoon for food, and we had to reuse it for every meal. The towels they gave us were hand towels. They would not give us more blankets. The lights were on twenty four to seven. Everything felt like this was meant to break you.

Nothing was explained to us. I was not given a phone call. We were locked in a room, no daylight, with no idea how or when we would get out. Then they let me send an email. I typed out a message, praying it would be seen through my CEO was able to connect with brit She told me they were working around the clock to try to get me out, but no one had any answers. The system made it next to impossible. I told her about the conditions, and that's when we decided.

My ICE agent, who had never spoken to me, told my lawyer I could have left sooner if I had signed a withdrawal form, and that they hadn't known. I would pay for my own flight. But from the moment I arrived, I begged every officer I saw to let me pay for my own ticket home. Not a single one of them ever spoke to me about my case. I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, families and politicians advocating for me, and I was still

detained for two weeks. And now she gives me the reason why, and I will tell you, and you're not going to like it. Don't go away, And she is not alone.

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They said, the entire system fell rigged, designed to make it nearly impossible for anybody to get out of And then the reality of why became clear. IIC detention isn't just a bureaucratic nightmare, it's a business. These facilities are all privately owned and run for profit. Companies like core Civic and Geo Group receive United States government funding based on the number of people they detain, which is why they lobby for stricter immigration policies. It's a very lucrative business.

Core Civic made five hundred and sixty million dollars last year alone from ICE contracts. In twenty twenty four, CEO Group made more than seven hundred and sixty three million dollars from ICE contracts. The more detainees, the more money they make. So it stands to reason that these companies have zero incentive to release people quickly. What I had experienced was finally making sense. And it is not just

my story. It is the story of thousands of people trapped in a system that profits from their suffering.

should be ashamed. We all as citizens should be ashamed that right now, people like Russia all the way a Lebanese doctor at Brown University, or people like let's see Ranaj Srinvarsen, a Columbia University grad student from India, or Camilla Munos, a Peruvian immigrant who recently married an American Trump voter, or a ten year old Mexican American brain cancer patient in Texas ten.

a paperwork snaffou caused by US Immigration. So US Immigration comes up with some paperwork snafu and decides it's going to put people away and then makes billions of dollars incarcerating them. Yep, yep, and MAGA just sits there happy as can be about it.

already dropped sixty percent. People from other countries don't want to risk going through US immigration because it appears they are just yanking people out for no reason whatsoever.

in its country. Can you imagine what our founders would say about this, because one of their grievances with King George was he refused to enact an effective immigration system, a system that gives a billion dollars to facilities to incarcerate people indefinitely and doesn't dump any money into more staffing to help these people with their paperwork problems. Right there, I'm sorry, there's a paperwork problem. Why don't you step

over there and we'll get this all cleared up. Oh, that would take resources that would take kindness, that would take heart and soul and empathy. Instead, it literally is up to the person at the passport desk to determine whether your ass gets hauled away or not. That is beyond horrible. It's beyond horrible, and we're doing it. What can we do about it? You can call your congress person, you could call your senator, you could, you know, make some noise. Is it going to change? It's a billion

dollar industry. We have built a billion dollar industry off of treating others inhumanely. Both the immigration system and the prison system are the shames of America. That's how we are judged and that's how we are viewed. We are an inhumane race, We are an inhumane culture of people. And I don't care how good you are. The fact is as a people, as a nation, we're horrible. We are absolutely horrible individuals as a nation, and it's sad.