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Green Card Holder Arrested and Violently Interrogated at Logan Airport

www.wgbh.org Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained

Originally from Germany, Fabian Schmidt was stopped on his way home from Luxembourg, questioned, and held in Rhode Island.

Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained

Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.

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Green Card Holder Arrested and Violently Interrogated at Logan Airport

www.wgbh.org /news/local/2025-03-14/green-card-holder-from-new-hampshire-interrogated-at-logan-airport-detained

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Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.
She said Schmidt told her immigration agents pressured him to give up his green card. She said he was placed on a mat in a bright room with other people at the airport, with little food or water, suffered sleep deprivation, and was denied access to his medication for anxiety and depression.
“He hardly got anything to drink. And then he wasn’t feeling very well and he collapsed,” said Senior.
He was transported by ambulance to Mass General Hospital. He didn’t know it at the time, but he also had influenza.
Other countries need to start issuing advisories against traveling to the USA. And residents of the USA need to understand that it's not safe for them to try to re-enter their country.
- I agree. I know there are tens of thousands of international travelers entering the US daily and he was a single case, but the question remains, why? The article mentions a DUI on his record from a decade ago as well as a marijuana possession charge that was dismissed when legalization passed. So, is that literally it? It's fucking insane that they are violating his rights like this and fucking torturing him.
  
  Being that he renewed his Green Card recently, it would make no sense that his very minor record would pose any issue, otherwise the government could have denied his renewal.

Guys, I'm starting to think maybe electing Trump was a bad idea...

What the hell is this? Everyone involved in this should be fired and probably jailed.
This happened under Trump so if he does nothing he is responsible. It needs to be added to the list of impeachment charges and he needs to be impeached every week with an increasing number of charges until the Congressional vote passes. He will piss everyone off eventually.
And talk about wasteful government spending. Anybody getting paid to do this to someone would be much more effective out policing traffic, stop aggressive drivers and red light runners. The number one cause of death is traffic accidents. You can get hit by someone anytime anywhere you are out on the road. This sort of thing is what needs attention more than mythical Boogeyman immigrants and travelers.
- This is exactly what they want. We are already in a civil war. These are social power moves.
  It seems as though nothing will be fixed because people are still in denial and have a hope that protests and complaining to our government will work. People aren't understanding it's already war.
  Don't underestimate psychological warfare.
  Time is being lost. Opportunity to advance in this war is being lost.
  Think like a game of chess, understand a mob boss mentality, every action should be war strategy. People need to realize in this war they will have to battle with understanding how to be heartless. You can't win a war against evil without heartlessness and it sucks because it's a paradox. Wars end in death, and change comes from that.
  I don't know what to do either. It feels so helpless.
  
  They have literally said the next civil war well be bloodless if the left allows it. And so far their wish is coming true b
  
  Now is the time, I tell people as often as I can, especially trans, bipoc, marginalized friends, get a couple guns (a long one and a short one) and learn how to use them. Learn some basic first aid, you really just need to know how to stabilize someone. Start networking with like-minded people in your communities. The police will not protect us, they’ve proven they’ll happily club senior citizens to the ground and shoot any protesters in the face with rubber bullets while escorting a rightwing murderer to safety. Iran was a secular, liberal state until almost 1980 when they (mostly legitimately) elected an Islamist theocracy; it could happen here.
  It's worth remembering that one of the primary ghouls/traitors responsible for the attempted overthrow of our government on J6 was Roger Stone, the same traitorous ratfucker who began his career working for Nixon and has a fucking Nixon tattoo on his back. It's really impossible to overstate just how fuckin' bad these people are and they're winning. Their little coup was successful and if they don't want to give up power they won't without force.
  Get to know people in your community. Take an interest in growing food, learn how to fix things. Get a gun (or two) and learn how to use them. Establish secondary lines of communication and start preparing.
  https://www.dsausa.org/
  https://mutualaiddisasterrelief.org/
  https://socialistra.org/
  https://generalstrikeus.com/
  https://afsc.org/news/how-create-mutual-aid-network
  https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/raids/
  https://mutualaidhub.org/

Do we call this full-blown Nazism yet or do we wait until the first concentration camp opens on US soil?
- There have been concentration camps for a while now.. Here's a list of addresses that ICE kindly provided.
- It'll take more than that. America had concentration camps for the Japanese while we were actively fighting the Nazis in WWII and their own camps.
- You mean what Guantanamo has already been repurposed for?
  
  That's why I wrote "on US soil". US concentration camps have long existed outside the US.
  The few concentration camps that have existed on US soil in the past have been closed.
- No, because they're not flying flags with swastikas, and most importantly, they're not being cartoonishly evil (have some badly done crime statistics on hand to wave around). /s

smh back in my day we had to send people to Cuba before we tortured them.

This makes me so worried to travel out of the US. The only "papers" I have of being a citizen is my passport. And I fully expect my immigration status will be questioned by the police and ICE.
- You should be fine as long as you don't intend to return the US ever again.
  
  That's the new American Dream.

This is insane.

On my stance of immigration, I only wanted illegals out of my country. This here is a green card holder, a renewed one at that, being the one getting all of his shit ruined for no reason.
I can't really lower the bar any lower as to how unpatriotic I feel towards USA at this time.
- As a native I would also like your “illegal” ass out of my country and continent
- From your response I am assuming you voted for Trump. If so may I ask where you got your i formation from regarding all his policies leading up to the election?
- I'm curious for everyone downvoting, what do you want for immigration reform?
  I don't think open borders could work, and if we don't have open borders, we need some mechanism to enforce our immigration policy.
  Note: this question stems from the parent comment, I know the article is about a green card holder. I also find the way he was treated as inhumane for any person regardless of immigration status.
  
  I do not think you will get an honest answer because people are just fueled by emotion and triggered. The biggest double standard in regards to immigration is that the US should be open border but everyone else should continue to look down at Americans as tourists and treat them as such. While restricting americans and being stingy at them when they arrive to their country and assimilate immediately.
  But when we do it then it is xenophobic and people carting out the old "your country has always been ran by immigrants" and blah blah blah. Two faced people I swear.
- I assume you're upset because this guy is white.
- Every American paying tax has blood on their hands when it comes to America's wrong doings.
  It's like paying a hitman to do the dirty work and then pretending "no they didn't die because of me."
  
  If taxes aren't paid people go to prison.... So what's realistic, non prison, way people can be innocent with this perspective?
  
  Paying taxes isn't a choice*
  *for poor people
  
  This is an awfully dumb take.

Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.
That might be a sentence. Needs more "and" though.

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