Would you visit USA in the current climate?

won’t be going for a while there’s direct flights to Mexico now and flights to Canada are reasonable, a much much nicer country and people where you don’t run the risk of ending up in a concentration camp or being shot in the head

Waves at Palantir ai bot

Very much so

I was at the Feast of San Gennaro in Little Italy a few years ago. 90% of the food was piss poor.

He must have hollow legs!

DFA warning about travel to Mexico.

Not sure if that's a Yes or a No!

Are you talking about Seamus Culleton?

He's not the first and won't be the last Irish person detained by ICE.

I know lads 16 years ago that were stopped for a speeding ticket in New Hampshire. It was determined by the cop that stopped them that they were illegal, they were shipped around a few detention centers and deported after a few months.

Culleton has been given the option to get out of the detention center in the form of deportation, but he's obviously isn't taking it.

He wasn't just picked up by ICE at random as he would like people to think.

I'd say his recent application for residency after his recent marriage raised a few red flags with ICE.

Apartently he was previously married to a US citizen in the US, they are now divorced and she has a restraining order against him.

Why didn't he try getting residency when married to her a good few years ago?

Once you scratch the surface of these ICE sob stories they tend not sob stories after all.

What sort of clown was he thinking he could come on national radio with his sob story and no one would look into his back story from Ireland and the US ?

Not to go over it again but the last summation of the whole affair is he didn't go public, it was his sister that went to the Irish media without telling him. I think he preferred to keep it quiet so that his outstanding warrant in Ireland didn't come into his appeal against deportation.

I suppose the media love a good underdog story so why he hadn't sought counsellor assistance after months in ICE detention was initially overlooked, but since then what small sympathy there had been for his overstaying a visa has been totally trumped by his absolute shyster behavior, especially the abandonment of his infant daughters.

I think even they would prefer not to have him foisted upon them now.

Many will have valid reasons for going there. Such as work and family. But I think to actually want to go there for a holiday, you'd want to be fairly ignorant and disconnected from what's happening over there. Or perhaps, be aware of these things, and just not care.

He was initially arrested because his visa application was in progress and he overstayed a visa back 20 years ago. There's plenty of people without child abandonment issues, drugs charges and arrest warrants who could have been arrested by ICE and detained in the same way.

While nobody is expecting you to feel sorry for Culleton you do need to think about the similar process of what a potential law abiding citizen would go through

As for keeping him in the states, I'd personally rather see him come home to face his criminal charges in an Irish court

When I worked there it was always jarring when some colleague would pronounce on some international situation with what I could only describe as Kids encyclopedia level of nuance and understanding.

That's what people are doing on this thread about America tbf.