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Why are Germans being detained by US immigration?

Three tourists and a permanent US resident say they were subjected to aggressive interrogation and held for weeks without knowing why. In response, the German government has extended a travel advisory to its citizens.
dw.com/en/why-are-germans-bein

An ICE officer in Kansas
Deutsche Welle · Why are Germans being detained by US immigration?By Elizabeth Schumacher

BREAKING: Pianist András Schiff cancels all his US engagements for 2025-26 in response to "the recent and unprecedented political changes in the United States."

"Some people might say, 'just shut up and play.' I cannot, in good conscience, do that."

kirshbaumassociates.com/agency

via @1br0wn

Kirshbaum Associates Inc.Pianist Sir András Schiff Cancels U.S. Appearances for 2025-2026 Season
Georg Tuparev

@j2bryson @1br0wn @inthehands

This reminds me how in 2022 in the West we canceled all Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky concerts and took out all Dostoyevski and Tolstoy books from the bookstores.

Both things are absurd woke behaviour.

@tuparev
- I can’t see the now-deleted post to which you’re replying, but I suspect you may be confusing symbolic gestures with economic boycotts.

- At this point, in 2025, to use “woke” as an insult in the manner you just did is to explicitly align yourself with a fascist movement — regardless of what your intent was. Like it or not, that’s the unstated connotation of the term. If you meant it that way, let me know and I’ll gladly block you. But in case you didn’t mean in that way: now you know.

@inthehands

It was a piano player who canceled US concerts. As if the people who he is protesting against even know his name. To cancel cultural events is idiotic!

About the woke. Think whatever you want. It is free world. As life-long leading in my country (and in Germany before) green politician I am probably way more to the left than you.

Perhaps you need to read this book..

@tuparev @1br0wn @inthehands I agree culture is important, but so is civic action and the communication of what a severe situation we are. If you are worried about bookstores, read this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causeway

en.wikipedia.orgCauseway Bay Books disappearances - Wikipedia