They are rare, but a handful of people being denied due process and held in a cold detention cell for WEEKS is an excellent reason to not take any chances.
Normal people refusing to cross the border is an important consequence of authoritarianism.
Having said that, what is motivating? Your partner probably has nothing to do with geopolitics, and everything to do with wanting to see her family. It probably isn’t useful to discuss the facts of our current political environment when they aren’t really what are motivating her.
They are rare, but a handful of people being denied due process and held in a cold detention cell for WEEKS is an excellent reason to not take any chances.
Normal people refusing to cross the border is an important consequence of authoritarianism.
Having said that, what is motivating? Your partner probably has nothing to do with geopolitics, and everything to do with wanting to see her family. It probably isn’t useful to discuss the facts of our current political environment when they aren’t really what are motivating her.