An Irish woman who has lived legally in the US for four decades has been detained by immigration officials for the last week because of a criminal record dating back almost 20 years.
Cliona Ward, 54, was detained at San Francisco airport on 21 April after returning from Ireland to visit her sick father and is being held at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) facility in Tacoma, Washington.
Ward holds a green card but has convictions for drug possession from 2007 and 2008, which she believed had been expunged, her family said.
I’d be willing to bet the universal common denominator for anyone who isn’t brown is simply that they’re antifascist.
Gotta say “antifa” (ann-TEE-fuh) so it sounds like a bad thing. Like an exotic gang, like al Qaeda or something. That way, normal people think antifa is the enemy, and in doing so, they support fascism without even knowing it.
Naming and pronunciation are key. They got half of America terrified of a fucking train halfway around the world.
They should have called it antifash or something more catchy. Antifa needs better PR people.
Same reasoning behind using DEI instead of the actual words that acronym represents.