Germany 'monitoring' US detentions of its citizens – DW – 03/17/2025
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German officials are trying to determine whether three cases in which citizens were detained while trying to enter the United States signal a change in US policy.

Summary

Germany is monitoring U.S. detentions of its citizens after three Germans were recently held by immigration authorities.

Two tourists were detained at the Mexico-U.S. border and later deported, while a Green Card holder, Fabian Schmidt, remains in custody in Rhode Island.

The German Foreign Ministry is assessing whether these cases reflect a broader policy shift under President Trump, whose administration has intensified immigration crackdowns.

Germany may adjust its travel advice based on further developments. U.S. officials have not clarified why Schmidt was detained.

  • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
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    47 minutes ago

    There’s already a low-key travel warning for trans and intersex people in place because the US’s stance on passports having sex entries not matching the birth certificate, or being anything but M or F, is unclear at best. Advise is “get the US embassy to sign off on your papers before trying to enter”. This might amount to a total ban: If your birth certificate says X and they’re not accepting X passports and neither ones which don’t match the birth certificate then there’s no kind of passport they do accept.

  • arakhis_@feddit.orgEnglish
    14·
    5 hours ago

    (Didn’t read the article)

    You’re being detained by a foreign state and your country gets your back by “adjusting traveling recommendations”

    haha I’m sure Germany is acting here but the summary reads funny

  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    See, the mistake these German visitors are making is that they aren’t Nazi-era rocket engineers. If they just fit into that category they’d be welcomed with open arms.

    • arakhis_@feddit.orgEnglish
      31·
      58 minutes ago

      I an equally intolerant towards what’s happening as European. (also im veeeery progressive)

      But isn’t calling them fascists more adequate? Since n%*zis were distinct to an ideology vs jews for example.

      I see that mr bust did the salute, but I’ve also seen an article about a neo fascism group called dark enlightenment. That should be the group we’re talking about here.

      Curious how you guys see it

      • BakerBagel@midwest.socialEnglish
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        4 hours ago

        They are every bit as anti-Semitic as Hitler was, they just want to use the Jews to being on the end times.

        • arakhis_@feddit.orgEnglish
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          2 hours ago

          isnt trump administration funding israel and are approving of the current government?

          • Zzyzx@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            2·
            1 hour ago

            And they also regularly engage in antisemitic dogwhistles like claiming Soros is secretly funding things, etc. The nature of modern far-right political movements is that competing prejudices often get switched out based on context. So their antisemitism competes with their islamophobia. And the evangelical Christian zionists in the Trump regime basically believe that Jews in Israel will either convert to Christianity or be wiped out as part of their end-times ideology. So even their support for Israel only really sees the Jewish people of Israel as objects in their dispensationalist ideology.

          • BakerBagel@midwest.socialEnglish
            1·
            2 hours ago

            Hitler also supported the creation of a Jewish colony to remove them all from Europe. That’s why the Holocaust was the “Final Solution”, because Hitler tried to solve “the Jewish Question” various ways throughout the 30’s.

            • arakhis_@feddit.orgEnglish
              1·
              2 hours ago

              Oke I feel uncomfortable on this matter.

              Thanks for your input, I will look into it when I’m more robust. But Ill keep your inputs in mind