Having watched their crew fall behind in the American League Championship Series two games to none after Monday’s drubbing at the hands of the Seattle Mariners, will followers of the Toronto Blue Jays wish to threat crossing the border to catch the subsequent video games in Seattle?
The largest threat could possibly be experiencing extra disappointment if the Mariners maintain profitable, however there may be additionally the potential of getting entangled with amped up Immigration and Customs Enforcement brokers. Oh, Toronto followers could also be high quality if they’re white sufficient, however, if their pores and skin is a bit brown and their accent a bit overseas, there is the chance they might end up in a detention center rather than a ballpark.
Is that far-fetched and paranoid? Probably not.
Of their aggressive quest to fulfill quotas set by the Trump administration, immigration enforcement brokers are going far, far past their alleged mandate to spherical up harmful criminals who’re within the nation illegally. Criminals, whether or not really harmful or simply petty, are a really small share of the oldsters being tracked down. Most of these rounded up for potential deportation are staff upon whom farmers, building firms and different companies rely. They’re moms hauled from their automobiles, children nabbed at colleges, nurses, educators, veterans and all varieties of peaceable, tax-paying residents of our communities. A giant share of them have been in america for many years.
There are additionally fairly a number of Americans who’ve been grabbed by ICE and locked up in harsh detention for days, if not weeks, with out being granted the important proper of due course of that is supposedly assured by the U.S. Structure.
Given all that, is anybody naive sufficient to consider Trump’s federal thugs would hesitate to hogtie a number of Canadian baseball followers if it helped meet their quota?
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