'Her screams…': Horror as innocent Chilean tourist in New York snatched by NYPD, 12-year-old daughter left alone on streets

Do not visit the USA. Just don't. Spend your money elsewhere for your sake and for our sake. It's no good to anybody for you to spend it here right now.

Go visit Canada. Nice people, beautiful country this time of year. And they won't disappear you. I know because the Canadians have always been our good friends. It's very sad how they've been treated.

There is a reason a lot of countries have travel warnings against the US

Tourists should avoid the USA (not to blame the tourists in this story, of course)

American citizens should be avoiding the USA at this point as well. No-one is safe.
- I'm an American citizen and I got out. Absolutely zero regrets. Apparently it's rapidly becoming increasingly common
- No-one is safe.
  Not until we make the police and ICE agents feel unsafe.
- Not even Elon Musk himself apparently.
- We can take a few american refugees, but we should limit it to the same measly numbers that the US has been accepting. That would be 50 000 per year.
  Over a few millenia we could probably provide refuge for the vulnerable populations in the USA.
- No, we don't want American citizens anywhere else in the world, leave them in their containment nation.
  They chose, overwhelmingly, the circumstances that they're in.
I blame the parent. Nobody with the resources necessary for an international vacation has any excuse for being ignorant of the current political state of the US, our government is actively targeting visibly hispanic people regardless of legality and has not been quiet about it. Even if their trip had gone smoothly every dollar they spent here would be indirectly supporting the shit our government is doing. The child had no choice in the matter, the parent was a fucking moron who volunteered their child for a completely avoidable traumatic experience and helped fund Trump's crimes in the deal.
- It's hard for people to believe this kind of crazy though.
- Do we know it was a pure tourist visit and they could choose the location? Many state departments are already flagging the US with a state instability warning if not no-go, so I'd assume she (or the husband) was here on business, or because there were circumstances that pushed them.
  To be fair, NYC is pretty blue, it's just the NYPD that has been for decades a threat to the people, especially nonwhites, with Bloomberg's mayorship taking much of the blame.

The Trump administration has set strict quotas for arresting anyone even suspected of being in the country illegally, with Stephen Miller ordering that 3,000 people be arrested every single day, or ICE officers will face consequences

What the fuck

Quotas are supposed to be illegal for law enforcement, not that they care about rule of law, but should be another note for the second Nuremberg Trials.
- ICE is not law enforcement
Nazis. That's what the fuck. It is all so "by the book". That book was supposed to warm us away from stuff like this. But nazi rhetoric is being wielded so fiercely in 2025 that the rest of us are, justifiably, pretty confused.
So while that could 100% be real, the tweet source is a shady Nazi promoting rag, just to provide some context. It's full of propaganda and fearbait even with a Hitler worship piece in their recent articles this year.

Anyone who still doesn't see how similiar this is to 1930s Germany, is lying, a child or ignorant to the point where they their opinion should be ignored.

Nothing short of violent revolution will change anything in the states at this point. The courts are powerless, and the entire political system is rotten to the core.

Nope. The rulings coming out of the Federal courts (more often than not from Trump appointed judges) are unambiguous and the executive branch is largely complying with them once a ruling is handed down.
They are playing a game of legal brinkmanship in order to to try and circumvent the law (the whole dismiss-and-arrest thing happening at immigration courts - which are NOT full courthouses, btw), but don't think for one second the Judges and attorneys working on these cases aren't fully aware of what's going on.
*edited for less word salad. Yikes
Where are you holding your violent revolution? Are you taking video?
- I don't even live in the states, thankfully. And I'm more than happy to watch from afar.
- Idk if you're genuinely stupid or just trying to get people hurt, but fyi speaking openly about violently resisting an oppressive government on unsecure channels is a bad idea for what I would have thought would be obvious reasons. Also seems like you're sarcastically implying that we're not at a point where violent resistance is a reasonable response, in case you haven't bothered watching the news recently a whole lot of people in LA would disagree with that, and there's a shitload of video
- I'm stocking up on guns and ammo at the moment. I'm trying to build an armory and pantry of like 6-12 months of living and Nazi killing.

Until the last three days, I've actually been fairly optimistic.

While slow, the courts had acted to curb Donald's worst abuses. The tariffs wreaked havoc, but we saw when the bond markets reacted that someone in his administration was able to make him see reason. (My own retirement has recovered its losses from February.) Elon Musk was finally being thrown out of the administration.

But here we are now, and this is genuinely scary stuff for absolutely everyone that isn't independently wealthy. The reaction of California and the courts will dictate how things proceed. This isn't the well-organized, institutionalized abuses of immigrants of Dubya, Obama and Biden. It's the heavy-handed, sloppy, careless and unmitigated cruelty of the Gestapo.

And, for me, I just can't get around the fact that this is probably happening because a meme hurt Donald's ego.

Trump and Steven Miller escalated the situation because they needed to feel good about themselves after Elon fucked them both over. This is probably what they planned for the elections in 2026/28.
- I'm not going to blame the voters for the Democrats' decision to throw the election, personally. They knew Harris was unpopular with groups they needed to win swing states. They knew Biden was unpopular too. It was their decision to crown two weak candidates without a primary and state publicly and unequivocally that they wouldn't change anything.
  You can't look at your own record as president, knowing full well your actions and willful inaction have made people significantly poorer, and reasonably conclude that the status quo is an acceptable campaign strategy.
absolutely wild that Taco Trump sent him into a blind rage like this
- I wouldn't be surprised if a meme causes Trump to send troops somewhere, only for it to turn out to be a trap.

This gritty new Home Alone: Lost In New York reboot, starring Donald Trump, is just a bit on the nose

This would be a movie that I want to watch, then turn off the second the kid is alone on the streets. Horror movies getting too realistic.

This seems like the kind of thing that's going to get a kidnapping cop shot, and they'll deserve that, but what happens after is a real wildcard.

Good. I hope it does. Nationwide. In large numbers. Fuck them all.

Fascism in America. Brought to you by conservatives.

Start arming yourselves. If you have friends and family that aren't armed, help them get armed.

Don't be fooled. The Dems used the same tools to their advantage before Trump. Its just not as blatantly illegal as it is now. They allowed these arms of the federal government to grow.
- Ah yes, the Dems, widely known for snatching people off the streets on the fucking daily.
- The key difference that your awful take misses is the difference between the center-right and conservatives. The center-right will support business and capital far more than it should and will drag its heels on things like worker’s rights but progress can be made. Conservatives, on the other hand, are angry, fear-driven morons who cause real, direct physical harm to people for he crime of being not who their deranged leaders prefer.
  Centrists are worthless and their inaction leads to real consequences but it is the Conservatives’ action that makes them so especially violent and dangerous and as much as the centre-right does nothing they, ultimately, are not the ones causing the right to commit these atrocities. In other words, shut the fuck up, you aren’t helping.
- Listen, I hate liberals as much as the next leftist, but you’re a fucking idiot if you think they were snatching people off the street for being brown.

Fascist shithole country

This isn't really a "boring" dystopia anymore. Can we go back to the boring one please

And then they all go "Please! We need tourist money!"

Yeah…. Nah…

I'm an American (Californian) and I go out of my way to buy non-American. If not that, I use Goods Unite Us to boycott any company that donates to the fascist GOP.
Anyone traveling to or even transiting through the United States at the moment is really gambling with their life. We need more flights that completely avoid that shithole.

I hope she sues the fuck out of them . NYPD is ICE thanks to Eric Adams.

"We've looked into it and decided its not illegal, also welcome to El Salvador"
NYPD has always been shit. Yes, it's probably worse now, but they've never been the good guys.
"We investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing."
Eric Adams is so tough on crime!
In September 2024, a series of investigations into Adams's administration emerged. Adams was indicted on federal charges of bribery, fraud, and soliciting illegal foreign campaign donations. Adams pleaded not guilty to the charges. He alleged that the charges were retaliation for opposing the Biden administration's handling of the migrant crisis. In February 2025, the Department of Justice in the Donald Trump administration instructed federal prosecutors to drop charges against Adams. In April 2025 Judge Dale Ho dismissed the case against Adams with prejudice, meaning that charges cannot be refiled.

America is fundamentally broken.

Hey is it ok for me to say we should run over ICE with our cars yet?

Maybe stop banning people for that in the middle of a civil war

You got banned from here for that?
I literally left Reddit after they temporarily banned my account for writing that Trump's trial will be televised just like Saddam's.
Why do we only control the speech of leftists?
- Because other than obvious hate-speech, leftists are the ones who actually practice freedom of speech while the right screams and yells and bans books.
- You can get banned here for similar reasons as you'd get banned from things on Reddit. In theory the federated setup helps to mitigate it somewhat, in that if you get banned from your primary instance you can hop over to one that's a bit more agreeable to your perspective and continue on.
  For example, I was recently banned from LGBTQ+ on, I think the world server, cause I posted a fairly benign straight opinion to a post that had an image basically asking for cis commentary. It had like 5-7 upvotes, about 13-15 down votes at the time the mods kicked me out -- so even amongst the community it was a bit wishy washy, but the mods still opted to take action. On Reddit, that might've gotten me flagged / banned site-wide, depending on which White House narrative the company is marching to on that day. Here I just lose access to the LGBTQ+ community, shrug at them echo chambering up, and continue about my day.
  In terms of "Why do we only control the speech of leftists", I imagine it's because the threads you continue to access are left leaning -- meaning those left in your bubbles, are the left-leaning sorts saying they'd been banned. Right leaning comments, and even (in my view) some centrist / neutral comments, still get people banned. These days we all basically have to assume that there are companies / algorithms creating bubbles in online spaces; you need to temper it with a good bit of secondary sources outside of 'social media' to get a more accurate picture of people's mindsets/trends. Eg. Social Media + direct views of national/local news paper sites + in person discussion with various sorts.
- DARVO
When driving over ice, don't hit the brakes. You might lose traction. Just hold the steering wheel steady, and keep moving.
It's a lot easier to get away with killing people if you use a car. They might even blame the victim (or recently, their parents).

Bastards burn it all down guillotines the fucking lot

United Shitholes of America

3000 abductions a day is the ICE quota. They just want warm (non-white) bodies.

These Nazis will not stop.

Only one way to stop fascists.
Always has been.

That's what you get for being a tourist in a fascist banana republic.
Chileans of all people should know better.

I STILL see reactionaries tout this ICE fiasco as some type of moral victory over "evil cartel criminals" i.e. single mothers, and working men.

Most fucked up part? Chile is the whitest South American country. There was an old statistic from the mid 2000s that put Chile at 95% white European heritage people.

The only way it would get more fucked is if they deported Spaniards from Spain to El Salvador...

Deporting the British to America and Elon to Belgium

Why wasn't this dude arrested for his efforts during Jan 6th?

Note the reference to Kristi Noem - South Dakota's former governor, who decided to handle COVID with "freedom and personal responsibility," spending $5 million of her state's federal COVID money on a tourism campaign. Like the line from Steve Martin's King Tut song, "He gave his life for tourism" - thanks to her, some South Dakotans probably did.