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NZ woman Sarah Shaw and six-year-old son detained by US immigration (www.rnz.co.nz)

submitted 10 months ago by BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz to c/newzealand@lemmy.nz

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Apparently this happened three weeks ago and the news is just coming out now. Winston Peters as usual has no idea what is happening and is too busy licking Trump's boots to actually say or do anything.

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[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I just happen to have empathy for everyone caught up in the US regime

SHE decided to live there and decided to risk traveling without the right documents.
I feel sorry for the kid who has to suffer bcs of her actions.
Not one bit for her.

Her being white doesn’t have anything to do with it

Apparently it does since I quoted another commenter who was indignified about just that.
Oh no, this could happen to a WHITE woman! And it is also news in the US and CAnada.

Now quickly name one of the 1000's of S-Americans that went through much worse since Biden, being separated from their children, not especially brought to a facility where they could be together as they did for her.
Can you? No, they're just nameless 'immigrants'.

It was exactly the same with the ukraine war.
Maybe far-left means something different in NZ, and the double standard/racism escapes you.
Then again, I know little about NZ.
A personal experience from a friend who wanted to live there with his NZ girlfriend he met while traveling and came back bcs they didn't accept him.
And he is a white European.
That and the Christchurch shootings OC
Good chance this 'poor mother' is a Trump loving racist herself, but that would be inconvenient for the story.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 10 months ago

Like I've said already, I'm not from NZ but am merely a cousin from across the ditch. Far left in Australia means the Socialists and Greens. Seems you'd criticise me for putting the centre-left Labor party next on my ballot, but you do need to number all the boxes for your vote to count! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If you know so little about the country, why don't you bugger off someplace else? Instead of making up spurious claims. In any case, I'm not going to bother with replying to you further, but you have a great day, okay?