My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.

My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.

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  • moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.comEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I have struggled to understand how this can happen to people who have never broken the law, in a system I believed to be based on the rule of law.

    Oh C’mon

    The law says you can’t drive too fast or too slow. It says you can’t drive too reckless or too careful. The laws are designed so that you break them every day, to empower police to oppress you legally. And, more important, there are laws that must be broken to progress society towards equality.

    You discredit yourself and everything else you say by suggesting that you’ve never broken a law