Reappropriate Jenn voices her opinions REALLY loudly, and so far INS hasn’t done anything with her.

I get a super privileged vibe from her. She acts like she can afford to be a shit disturber.

Everyone I knew who couldn’t afford to be kicked out of school kept their mouths shut. I wasn’t about to flush a one hundred thousand dollar investment down the toilet just so I could rant about the Patriot Act or the stupidity of the American president. And seriously, while I was there I didn’t think it was particularly kosher to bitch and moan about the American system beyond privately saying that customs was incredibly racist.

The entire time I lived there, I felt like I could not voice my opinions. I spent the entire four years worried that I was going to be deported before I finished my degree.

Reappropriate Jenn voices her opinions REALLY loudly, and so far INS hasn’t done anything with her.

“A nine-year-old Canadian boy has been released along with his parents from an immigration jail in Texas where they were detained for six weeks. Kevin Yourdkhani and his Iranian-born parents arrived in Toronto last night. They had been held in a controversial privately-owned jail in Texas where the U.S. government is holding up to 200 immigrant children. They were detained after their flight to Canada was forced to make an emergency landing in Puerto Rico. The family was fleeing political repression in Iran and were trying to seek refugee status in Canada where their son had been born.”

“Rice was speaking before the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Later in her appearance, Rice was questioned about the rendition victim Maher Arar. Arar is the Canadian citizen seized on a stopover flight to the US and sent to Syria where he was jailed and tortured. Rice said the Bush administration had mishandled Arar’s case but stopped short of an apology.”

And what’s up with the torture watch? you know better not to mess with us.

The Canadian government has removed the United States and Israel from a watch list of countries where prisoners risk being tortured, after coming under pressure from U.S. and Israeli officials. The Canadian Foreign Minister is now claiming that the United States and Israel were wrongly placed on a list that also included Syria, China, Iran and Afghanistan. The original document cited the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay and lists U.S. interrogation techniques including “forced nudity, isolation, and sleep deprivation.” Amnesty International Canada said it was disappointed by the Canadian government’s reversal. Amnesty’s Alex Neve said, “When it comes to an issue like torture, the government’s main concern should not be embarrassing allies.”

The entire time I lived there, I felt like I could not voice my opinions. I spent the entire four years worried that I was going to be deported before I finished my degree. And the government was forcing me to pay for the privilege of Homeland Security tracking my time at school.