Terrence McBride's troubles began after he pulled up to the U.S. border. He told officials he’s an American citizen, but carries a Canadian passport. He said he was detained for about a day-and-a-half as officers questioned him and officers sorted through his files.
  • cecilkorik@lemmy.caEnglish
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    4 days ago

    The story doesn’t really add up very well in my opinion. If he has no family or friends up here what’s he doing up here so regularly? It doesn’t sound like he’s got any job and it’s a long fucking drive from Georgia. He’s got a Canadian passport so it’s not like he didn’t know that he’s a Canadian citizen. He admits getting warned at the border that he’d need to get his paperwork in order for next time and never does until suddenly “next time” becomes now. He describes himself as being “held” in Canada as if it’s our choice to keep him here, he’s a citizen of our country, he’s welcome here if he chooses to make this country his home, it’s not a prison, he just chooses not to want to be here. That’s his choice. Meanwhile he’s miserable about missing his family and friends, but there’s no mention of them at all anywhere in the story. What are they doing? Are they missing him too? Maybe not? Are they trying to help or support him in any way? Do they even know he’s gone? Why didn’t his adoptive parents figure out his immigration status long before now? How can you even go through an international adoption process without getting that sorted out? Maybe it’s just the result of shoddy journalism, but there are holes in this story big enough to drive a truck through, and I think some of those omissions might be deliberate and I’m not sure this guy is entirely who he’s representing himself to be. Doesn’t pass the smell test for me.

    • rozodru@piefed.socialEnglish
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      3 days ago

      in his go fundme he states that he routinely goes up to Halifax to try and reconnect with his birth family but I don’t buy that. He says he’s unemployed so What I think happened was it wasn’t working out for him in the US, no job, no money, decides that hey he’s a Canadian by birth, doesn’t do his research, and decides to literally truck up here to see if he can make it work. Newsflash: it ain’t much better here.

      So I don’t buy the whole reconnecting with family schtick. Also…He claims he’s a US citizen but has a Canadian passport…ok…he clearly KNEW he wasn’t an American Citizen. Why go through the trouble of obtaining a Canadian Passport? it would have been much easier and cheaper to get an American one IF he was American.

      Chances are his adoptive parents DID go through the process to obtain him a green card and visa which would grant him a social security number THUS he’d be able to work, serve in the military etc, but the idiot never bothered or realize you HAVE to renew that shit. OR it was too expensive for him. So he didn’t.

      But I god damn guarantee you he was well aware of the fact he wasn’t a US citizen.

  • SarcasticMan@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Good, they got another free-loading illegal alien off the street. You know they should look into this subhuman scum with a fine-toothed telescope. His parents were child traffickers after all, and you know, them apples don’t fall far from the tree.