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This is an old article, here's the follow up: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/visa-reinstated-byu-student-japan-fishing-citation-speeding-tickets-rcna202216

TLDR; he got is visa back and is still in the US.

Where are you seeing that he violated wildlife laws? All that's mentioned is a catch-and-release fishing violation that was dismissed - which can happen if the officer makes a mistake and it's found that no laws or rules were actually broken.

Edit: Not that it matters, but would also like to point out the following: I'm a person of colour and a supporter of Black Lives Matters. Finally, I didn't downvote you - though by all rights I probably should. Just remember - a person who is willing to call a black man a white supremacist has been been exposed here.

I counted them as refugees because of their stated intent. They are privileged enough that they can use non-humanitarian avenues to do it. First class vs economy…

Fair.

But let's keep in mind that the non-humanitarian avenues can be restricted. See this from last year, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68621013 when Canada had announced that they would limit the number of temporary work permits granted. It seems like this idea was revived again this year, https://theworldbridge.ca/canada-introduces-first-ever-cap-on-temporary-residents/

From the later link there are 2.5 million temporary residents in Canada, from all over the entire world. Meanwhile, from https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-voters-have-a-party-affiliation/ there are over 45 million folks registered to the Democratic party in the US. It's easy to see how the spots to move to Canada (legally) fill up pretty quick in this situation if things get bad enough.

So I think we're on the same page here. Those early birds with enough privilege can use alternate pathways to come to Canada, but even latecomers with the same level of privilege may find a more difficult situation to contend with.

The story of the Bergs is heartbreaking. I wonder what happened to them.

As far as I can tell they're still in Canada, still in limbo. The process of claiming asylum is a slow one, and they've only been here a couple of months. So .. they haven't been approved yet, but neither have they been told to pack their bags and leave.

The “Safe Third Country” agreement will come under stress, I think, when the shit hits the fan.

Agreed. Likely it's time has come and gone.

But if one really thinks about it, one can see that the STCA was meant to be for Canada's benefit originally, as there was almost nothing going the other way pre-drumpf (and post-drumpf it's probably zero). So even historically speaking, it was always about keeping refugees in the USA out of Canada...

This is deeply disturbing. The linked article itself links to a reuters one, https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-greets-chinas-xi-kremlin-2025-05-08/

In a lengthy joint statement, they said they would deepen relations in all areas, including military ties,

Military ties?? Combine that with the "root causes" statement and the logical conclusion is ...

China as a country was officially neutral, even as individuals sometimes made choices that we'd disagree with, https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/04/10/china-rejects-claims-it-is-aware-its-citizens-are-fighting-in-ukraine-as-irresponsible

But now the leaders of China are the ones being irresponsible. How could anyone support Russia's position against Ukraine and be against a peaceful resolution?

Minor nitpick.

Are we going to have a surge of political asylum claimants and/or refugees from the States? The first ones have already started trickling in.

No, from the linked article, those three are not coming in as refugees. As professors hired by a university based in Canada, they're at least coming in as skilled workers with the appropriate work permits.

These are the first who are trying to come under political asylum, https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/03/12/donald-trump-transphobia-us-family-seeking-asylum/

That said, back when folks were worried about the Insurrection Act and martial law being declared on April 20, aletheisthenes wrote ( here https://medium.com/@/part-4-a-shopping-list-for-the-unthinkable-b9c5d65c9a83 ) that folks should consider heading to Canada and Mexico, or even the Carribbean, as an option,

I’d say you have days to plan a sudden vacation in Mexico or Canada
You spend a few days or weeks in Canada, Mexico, or the Caribbean
If there is a major event that changes the world. Run. Go. Fast. Get to the border and across it fast, before it closes. If you can.

Moving on to the main point,

And what the hell are we doing to prepare for this?

Sadly, this.

Minister says Canada 'won't be cruel,' but will enforce border agreements
"People that are coming here, if they come in an irregular fashion, that is not the right way to do so and they will be turned away subject to the Safe Third Country agreement we have with the U.S."
In December, the federal government announced plans to spend $1.3 billion to improve security at the border

From https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-canada-u-s-border-1.7438813

they just aren’t useful enough to scale up.

Yep. Worth noting that the OP wrote this,

You can now pre-order an equivalent NS-1.

But there's nothing in the linked article to actually place such an order, or any indication that any of the robots are for sale. Rather the article just describes a series of "games" designed to show how advanced the research in China is. Which is otherwise fine, but the author using the article in a very misleading way here.

Meanwhile, if you wanna buy a walking robot, you can do so here: https://www.canadasatellite.ca/fr/Unitree-G1-Edu-Plus.htm?srsltid=AfmBOooGdkEmgTt%5C_XKF25CA1sy4dZWb5OcfpCNXp1KJlQnaFGcXIF2-W4Lk&gQT=1

It will cost you roughly 65k CAD

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This is deeply disappointing.

I had coded up something similar (but less configurable) on my own single-user pyfedi instance. But this is really nice. In particular it's surprising that we can now do something that lemmy can't (yet).

I wonder what's next on the radar. Implementing https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5578 maybe? (Thought I wouldn't be surprised if this was also already implemented...)

And yet, from last week's episode, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/30/trump-kilmar-abrego-garcia-nayib-bukele

The discussions appeared to be an effort by the Trump administration to window dress the underlying legal case and build a paper trail it could reference

It's going so badly that even after building a fake paper trail they still need to invoke the state secrets privilege...

Rather than developing a Mexican brand of far-right politics, Verástegui tried to transplant a distinctly American flavour

That was probably why. Though I suppose that it doesn't explain why no one else tried to innovate a more native far-right brand.

2024 might otherwise have been a tough year, but 2025 was a lot better. Just look at the recent elections in Australia and Canada.

Key word being "was"

Anyways the article linked to another which explains that they qualified as an exception because they had a brother in Canada (a Canadian citizen already), but CBSA got all nitpicky about the docs (no specifics given but one gets the impression that there's a misplaced comma or something) and sent them away twice. They had to get a lawyer involved and file before the Federal Court to get in.

That's awful that the family got separated like that.

Glad that they finally made it in, but CBSA treated them terribly unfairly. You shouldn't need a lawyer to make an asylum claim (as most folks aren't in a position to even find a lawyer willing to help, let alone figure out how to pay for one - or find one of the pro bono folks).