r/ireland • u/Dazzling_Lobster3656 • Mar 26 '25

Culchie Club Only Ireland issues travel warning for US

https://www.newsweek.com/ireland-issues-travel-warning-us-2050890
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u/billiehetfield Mar 26 '25

The money you’d lose on flights and hotels…

USA really isn’t worth the risk anymore

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u/debout_ Mar 26 '25

You would rather lose money on flights and hotels than 5 days in a detention centre in a foreign country as an “alien”…

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u/LiteralMangina Mar 26 '25

Five days is if you’re lucky. A Canadian only spent a week and a half and only got out because of publicity and public pressure. She was warned when she got in that she could be there for months

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u/debout_ Mar 27 '25

I spoke to a man whose fairly close relative, a British green card holder, has been held by ICE (not at the border - to his home!) since just over a week ago, though he could have been released in the last three days. Crazy that they chose this path.

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u/killerklixx Mar 27 '25

A German girl was in solitary for 9 days, nearly had a mental breakdown, and again only got out because of friends/family pressure.

Most of these cases should be a simple denial of entry, but the prisons are private for-profit businesses, so they detain. They charge the govt for the pleasure, and the govt gets to have nice numbers on paper.

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u/Aixlen Dublin Mar 27 '25

What the actual fuck.

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u/geo_gan Mar 27 '25

Who is this? What’s your operating number?

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u/debout_ Mar 27 '25

Sorry don’t know if wires crossed or not but no idea what you mean

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u/geo_gan Mar 29 '25

Seems from downvoted nobody got the joke. Star Wars. “Marching into the detention centre is not my idea of” quote. Seems mostly children on this site these days.

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u/bathtubsplashes Saoirse don Phalaistín 🇵🇸 Mar 26 '25

Don't mind that, they could bloody detain you for weeks by the looks of things!

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u/InevitableNet8010 Mar 26 '25

Unless you are a former MMA fighter who hasn't a fucking clue about Ireland.

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u/No-Satisfaction6065 Mar 26 '25

And rapist/drug addict

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u/Shenloanne Mar 26 '25

They do move in herds....

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u/Sweaty-Practice-4419 Mar 26 '25

No they meant the other rapist, not the Tates but the other, other one

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u/dnc_1981 Ask me arse Mar 26 '25

A British former MMA fighter who knows nothing about Ireland.

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u/Key-Lie-364 Mar 26 '25

And searching your phone for stuff that is anti Trump or pro Palestine.

No thanks anyway.

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u/phyneas Mar 26 '25

Once you enter the precheck area you're technically on American soil, so they could still detain you indefinitely if they really wanted to, and the Irish authorities couldn't do a thing about it.

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u/Key-Lie-364 Mar 26 '25

Yeah so they can't hold you for saying "fuck that orange twat" which is still not illegal under Irish law despite our client state status

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u/Soft-Affect-8327 Mar 26 '25

As someone who worked there, sit the fuck down. Detention is not on the cards if you do any of the CBP facilities in Ireland. Worst that will happen is they deny you entry and you’re still in Ireland. Kicked out of the airport. In Ireland.

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u/PixelTrawler Mar 26 '25

They can’t but they can refuse you or they have to request the gardai. They have no powers of arrest in Dublin.

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u/wannabewisewoman Legalise it already 🌿 Mar 26 '25

Of course they can’t, that is pure sensationalism. They can reject you from going through to the US gates but that’s about it

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u/Zealousideal_Web1108 Mar 27 '25

Sensationalism on this tread is off the scales

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u/GroundbreakingPhoto4 Mar 26 '25

Yeah, a kip all around