Preezy wrote:I do hate it when politicians try and pander to the youth with their Nintendos and fizzy pop and pokemans.
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Vermilion wrote:I'd rather live in Luton.
Vermilion wrote:I'd rather live in Luton.
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) and based on that three minutes of my life I am now wholeheartedly behind the Warren For President campaign and I will fight any Trump fans who stand in the way 
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Vermilion wrote:I'd rather live in Luton.
OrangeRKN wrote:Surely there is no way back from this now
A couple from England who were visiting Canada and took a wrong turn into the United States when they swerved to avoid an animal on the road have been detained with their 3-month-old baby and shipped to the Berks Detention Center in Leesport, Pa., according to their lawyers.
The baby boy has been subjected to frigid and filthy conditions, developing blotchy skin and what seems to be an eye infection, his mother wrote in a sworn statement. At one point, the child was left naked and exposed for several hours in the cold jail, after all his clothes and blankets were taken away for washing, she said.
“They had no idea they had crossed any boundary,” Cambria said from the detention center during a conference call with reporters on Monday. “They had no idea they were even in the United States. They were just trying to get back to their hotel.”
The first night in custody, at a facility near the Canadian border, David was taken to a male-only cell while she and the baby were placed in a women’s cell. Both were given thin, metallic-looking Mylar emergency blankets and left to sleep on the floor, she wrote.
She put the baby on top of her, to try to keep him warm, but he kept sliding off. “The memory of our little baby having to sleep on a dirty floor of a cell will haunt us forever,” Eileen Connors wrote.
The next morning, the couple were told they would be released to a family member in the United States. They insisted they simply wanted to go home.
Later that day, immigration officials told them the plans had changed. They would not be released to family. That night, Connors wrote, immigration agents took the family from their cells, put them in a van and drove — “like an abduction or kidnapping.”
They were taken to a detention center, where her husband was led from the van to what he later described as a freezing cell. “He felt like he was really losing his mind at this point from the extreme cold,” she wrote.
She and the baby, Connors wrote, were taken to a hotel, a Red Roof Inn in Seattle. She had to rely on the room microwave when she wanted to boil water to prepare clean drinking water for her baby and to sterilize his bottles.
The next day, the family was taken to the Seattle airport.
“I thought, finally we’re going home,” Connors wrote.
Instead, she wrote, the family was flown to Pennsylvania. They arrived at the Berks center on Oct. 5.
Connors wrote that after she arrived there, all the baby’s clothes and blankets were taken for washing, even new items, and the center had no clothes small enough to fit him. At one point, she tried to wash her child as best she could while sitting on a sofa because the baby bathtub that was offered was filthy, she wrote.
The bathrooms are dirty and broken, she said.
“When I ask how am I supposed to keep my baby warm in this horrible cold, all they tell me is to put a hat on him. … They even took away one of his formula containers, which I had to beg for three days for them to return it to me.”
The blankets and sheets she was given smelled “like a dead dog,” Connors wrote, and she didn’t use them to wrap her first-born child “for fear they haven’t been washed and my baby will become sick.”
At night, every 15 minutes, a staff person opened the door to shine a flashlight into their room, awakening her and the baby, she said. She startles when the checks occur, because “I feel like someone is going to take my baby.”
An ICE officer told her that if the couple wished, they could allow the baby to be separated from his parents and taken alone to another facility, Connors said. She refused.
“We have been treated like criminals here, stripped of our rights, and lied to,” Connors wrote. “We have been traumatized. … This would never happen in the United Kingdom to U.S. citizens, or anyone else, because people there are treated with dignity.”
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