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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMAGA Dad, Trump supporter, 40 years in US on green card, Blocked from reentry after Canada vacation
Ive been torn from my family. My life has been disregarded completely.A New Hampshire man is facing a lot of uncertainty as he tried to
return home from a trip from Canada. He was blocked. says he's lived here in New
Hampshire for over 40 years. He goes back and forth to Canada at least once a year and has never
had a problem until now. I'm a legal resident, green card holder. I have been since 1981.
Chris Landry has lived in New Hampshire since he was three years old. He has a partner,
five children and a job in manufacturing. He was stopped at the border in Houlton, Maine, on
Sunday while returning from a family vacation to Canada. They pulled me aside and started
questioning me about my past convictions in New Hampshire. Three hours later, the 46 year
old was told he couldn't come home despite having a green card and being a legal U.S. Resident.
they denied me reentry and said, don't come back or we will. We will detain you. And the only
way for me to get back in was to see an immigration judge. In 2004 and 2007, Landry faced
charges of marijuana possession and driving with a suspended license, but says he's had no
criminal record since he was given a suspended sentence and paid his fines. So I never
thought that that would threaten my, my, my status as a resident
he couldn't vote for president,
but he did support Donald Trump.
"I was definitely, you know, all for Make America Great Again and
having a strong, unified country and a and a, you know, bright
future for my five American children. But now I feel a little differently"
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-hampshire-dad-of-5-reverses-trump-support-after-hes-denied-entry-to-us/
I was definitely all for Make America Great Again and having a strong, unified country and a bright future for my five American children, but now I feel a little differently, he told NBC Boston. Ive been torn from my family. My life has been disregarded completely.
Landry was detained for three hours at the port of entry in Houlton, Maine, and was questioned about decades-old charges for marijuana possession and driving under a suspended license. He told NBC Boston that he was convicted of those charges in 2004 and 2007 and paid fines for both. He said that he received a suspended 60-day prison sentence for each charge and has not had any other run-ins with the law.
That did not stop border agents from treating him like a criminal, he said.

UpInArms
(53,143 posts)
JanMichael
(25,668 posts)TheBlackAdder
(29,593 posts)B.See
(5,908 posts)lmao.
lostnfound
(17,092 posts)And had been a better judge of people
And had cared about or recognized character
Is that so hard??
wolfie001
(5,736 posts)Fat-headed Charlie Kirk told him that. Jordan Peterson too. On their podcasts.
lostnfound
(17,092 posts)William Seger
(11,731 posts)William Seger
(11,731 posts)A new study published today suggests that how empathic we are is not just a result of our upbringing and experience but also partly a result of our genes.
Empathy has two parts: the ability to recognize another persons thoughts and feelings, and the ability to respond with an appropriate emotion to someone elses thoughts and feelings. The first part is called cognitive empathy and the second part affective empathy.
...
In a new study published in the journal Translational Psychiatry, the Cambridge team, working with the genetics company 23andMe and a team of international scientists, report the results of the largest genetic study of empathy using information from more than 46,000 23andMe customers. The customers all completed the EQ online and provided a saliva sample for genetic analysis.
The study was led by Varun Warrier, a Cambridge PhD student, and Professors Simon Baron-Cohen, Director of the Autism Research Centre at Cambridge University, Thomas Bourgeron, of the University Paris Diderot and the Institut Pasteur, and David Hinds, Principal Scientist at 23andMe.
The new study has three important results. First, it found that how empathetic we are is partly due to genetics. Indeed, a tenth of this variation is due to genetic factors. This confirms previous research examining empathy in identical versus non-identical twins.
It's still 90% due to "upbringing and experience" (such as being taught to be a bigot by your racist parents).
Scrivener7
(56,493 posts)Demovictory9
(36,798 posts)wolfie001
(5,736 posts)The leopards memes above is so apropos.
Demovictory9
(36,798 posts)wolfie001
(5,736 posts)In his daughter's school backpack.
wolfie001
(5,736 posts)......he's a racist and anti-LGBTQ (homophobe). Simple as that.
Prairie Gates
(5,706 posts)He's not a citizen.
Aristus
(70,423 posts)A distinction without a difference. He's trash, just like Trump voters.
wolfie001
(5,736 posts)
wolfie001
(5,736 posts)Also, the MAGA trucker-clown show in Ottawa. Same nasty hateful racist pigs.
irisblue
(35,466 posts)
Prof. Toru Tanaka
(2,735 posts)No sympathy for you and Im glad your stupid ass couldnt vote.
Bev54
(12,669 posts)mwb970
(11,881 posts)I have no sympathy for trump cultists, period.
Conjuay
(2,583 posts)Thoughts and prayers, buddy, thoughts and prayers.
as CoachD said in a recent video, "Thoughts and middle fingers".
GoCubsGo
(34,085 posts)But, this fucker thinks he's somehow above all of the deportation shit? Cry me a river.
fujiyamasan
(491 posts)I just dont get it. A permanent resident is simply not the same as an actual citizen. This idiot should have known a green card could be revoked and he could be deported. But that was for those people.
He was too lazy or stupid to bother, or just figured he was too privileged (maybe due to hmmmm I wonder whats different about him vs all those Latinos).
Oh well. Womp womp
Prairie Gates
(5,706 posts)with Green Cards / legal residency.
I don't think he did - he came here at three and his parents should have guided him better - but plenty of people live here on green cards for decades, just as many American expats live in their adopted countries for their whole lives without getting citizenship there.
There's never been an expectation that your green card would be revoked over minor violations, especially not almost 20 years after they've been adjudicated. This is a bonkers story, even without the leopards eating one's face angle that everybody seems to be relishing.
FakeNoose
(37,937 posts)I have some friends who have dual citizenship either Swiss & American or German & American. It used to be rather easy to do that, but not any more. Not everyone wants to give up their original birth-country citizenship. It doesn't mean they are disloyal to the USA though.
If Canadians are living here legally, raising their families and paying their taxes, why is the US government abusing its power like this?
Prairie Gates
(5,706 posts)This is arbitrary and capricious. There's no expectation that you will face a penalty as stiff as this one almost 20 years after a minor violation has been adjudicated. It's insane and would not survive even arch MAGA judicial review.
Hope22
(4,056 posts)for fifty years was pulled over at a small Ohio airport while returning from a trip to Pelee Island. Two little 85 y/o ladies coming back from a sweet vacation. The custom officer pulled the green card from my friends hand and said we dont have permanent cards anymore. Because of her finger pricked diabetic thin skin we made three different trips for them to attempt to pull fingerprints so they could reissue a card. After the last failed attempt they told her she would need to contact the chief of police in every community she had lived in to verify her record was clean. No small feat as she had traveled the US for a lifetime with her husband who was an FAA official. The entire thing was a ridiculous exercise. It caused heartache and frustration fearing she would what return to Canada with no family or caregivers? We waited for the letters to come in and after almost a year finally got the replacement green card. One she would need to renew over time. We knew then that trouble was brewing ..
FakeNoose
(37,937 posts)How horrible for her!
Hope22
(4,056 posts)And there she was left without any ID which in todays world could have found her in a cell! Weird that she had never received a notice prior and we felt like the guy was just being a dick. But permanent doesnt mean permanent. He couldnt say when the rule was changed! My heart goes out to people today. It seems like a crap shoot who makes it home. Heartbreaking!
DFW
(58,514 posts)I have been living in Germany for many years, and have no intention of giving up my US citizenship. Less than a century ago, Europe was a total mess headed for another world war after having just finished one. The likelihood if it happening again is small, but mostly thanks to our grandfathers, not the Europeans themselves. My US passport is my safety path back home should baser instincts once again prevail, and the AfD tells me they still could. My German residence is, on the other hand, my safety valve against the Republican God Squad getting too control freak power mad back home.
There are no guarantees anywhere, just efforts to cover my ass as best as I can. We made sure our daughters were dual nationals so they would be un-expellable in both the USA and the EU. They did the same for their children. Reagan, Cheney and Trump have shown that our shining city on the hill does not always shine, and Europe has shown that socialism makes for control freak countries that far more people want to leave than move into.
Its ridiculous to insist that a resident of another country MUST give up his or her nationality. If they meet the requirements, speak the language and live productive lives, then what the hell, man, let them stay and live in peace. I thought we were for freedom of choice, or did that suddenly get limited to abortions while I wasnt looking?
yardwork
(67,260 posts)Or maybe he just never bothered. He doesn't sound like a thoughtful person.
mdbl
(6,961 posts)yardwork
(67,260 posts)It's possible that was in his mind but unless he paid into it every year he's not eligible. Which means now that he's been sent back there he's in trouble! He now has nothing.
No Medicare, no social security, and possibly nothing from Canada either. He's screwn.
Mariana
(15,569 posts)DownriverDem
(6,866 posts)never became a US citizen and lived on a green card for many decades. She stayed a Canadian her whole life.
mgardener
(2,102 posts)With what was done to him being done to others.
I have no sympathy.
I do have sympathy with his wife and children.
I do hope they will not need Meicaid or any other type of assistance now that their husband/ father is no longer their to provide financial help.
IbogaProject
(4,667 posts)Let Canada deal with them.
IronLionZion
(49,479 posts)Bye
Prairie Gates
(5,706 posts)He completed the penalty for his violations and it has been 18 years.
He needs to consult a US based attorney.
moniss
(7,705 posts)all of the life you built being here in the US I think he is in a far better country right now in Canada. I think he may want to consider that and think about moving his family to Canada as well. America as we all had become accustomed is gone and because of the extreme gerrymandering, propaganda media, voter suppression, wealth inequality, dark money groups, rigged Supreme Court, military in the streets, arrests for political views, constant attacks on people of lower means etc. the idea that we can rapidly turn it back around is not likely.
We may win Congress in the mid-terms but there is every likelihood that the GQP will be obstructionist to rolling back anything that has been done, preventing further damage or having effective oversight and accountability. I'm not saying we give up but I am saying that given the situation this man should know it is unlikely he is coming back for many years and his presence in the life of his family and being together is the highest priority. The children face a declining educational environment here in the US and an increasingly propagandizing media brainwashing the public rather than supporting critical thinking and independence.
whopis01
(3,854 posts)Involved in illegal drugs?
Illegally operating vehicles on roads paid for by taxes?
A foreigner providing support for political candidates in our country?
Sounds like the perfect target for deportation and/or imprisonment.
(The above is a mix of sarcasm and schadenfreude with a sprinkling of FAFO on top)
kairos12
(13,368 posts)Slide trombone whomp,whomp.
nuxvomica
(13,471 posts)I call bullshit on that. All he had to do was look around and know that wasn't happening. I bet he just really enjoyed the cruelty agenda until it bit him in the ass.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(10,414 posts)I will never understand how people cannot see iDJT for what he is! He's a divider, not a uniter! Well, unless you count uniting all the belligerent ignorant people in hatred.
hatrack
(63,031 posts)Hope he suffers, as we are are suffering, thanks to his stupid brainwashed bullshit.
Torchlight
(5,147 posts)In a year or two, it will be anyone whose driver's license has expired. A few years after that, it will be anyone who doesn't vote the right the way.
Scalded Nun
(1,445 posts)you need to get to Syria to visit them.
Too bad you could not do more to make your country great again!
Bluestocking
(178 posts)The wife will hopefully now vote for the Democrats in the next election and hopefully the kids grow up to vote Democratic.
We will win one voter at a time.
As for him, we dont want his kind in our country.
Dan
(4,834 posts)Probably wont change immediately.
But, lets see what happens when Medicaid is cut and she might (and kids too) have to work in the fields to replace the real criminals, you know the Brown ones.
Thoughts and prayers
Martin Eden
(14,632 posts)And "a better future" for his children.
travelingthrulife
(2,894 posts)You were conned Mr. MAGA. Maybe Canada will let your family immigrate. Then again, why would they want any MAGAs?
Prof. Toru Tanaka
(2,735 posts)Pototan
(2,744 posts)Last edited Fri Jul 11, 2025, 01:59 PM - Edit history (1)
FAFO
BradBo
(749 posts)kkmarie
(273 posts)I had to wonder why he would not become a citizen of the usa. My first thought is he didn't become a citizen here because he goes to Canada for the free health care and perhaps takes his children there for health care. Because he goes once a year, at least, this time he only had 2 of his 5 children. His partner and 3 children didn't go on the " family vacation " with him?
But he has to be a resident of Canada to get free care, being a citizen doesn't automatically qualify you.
Chris Landry is not listed in the Assessing & Tax records in Peterborough NH. Neither is his partner Jessica Bekier. I did find them as possible renters of a house in Peterborough.
Told you I'm cynical. After 40 years and not becoming a citizen it just seems to me he's getting something out of it.
Bluesaph
(928 posts)It costs money to become a citizen and the test is hard for some and so is the interview. He could have just known he wouldnt pass. Also run ins with the law ever can jeopardize the entire thing.
Bluetus
(1,311 posts)One less Trump vote and one great moment of karma.
What's the problem (other than the fact that this is a random side effect of the fascist takeover of our government)?
Prairie Gates
(5,706 posts)Gingermolly
(19 posts)So tired of saying that, but I have zero sympathy for non-thinkers who supported Trump.
Stuckinthebush
(11,164 posts)Couldn't vote. Supported Trump anyway - probably with money or merchandise purchases. Let me spell out his concern: Too many brown people for his taste. But, wait, he's a good guy and has been here for 40 years! Has a green card and everything! How could they do this to him? He's a Trumpy white man!
FAFO.
Because of assholes like this we have our own brown shirt army operating outside of the law, and that is only going to grow in size. He's lucky they didn't ship his ass to Alligator Hell.
EarthboneArt
(39 posts)Immigration if he is Canadian then so are his kids regardless of the birth place.Moving back to Canada wouldn't be too hard.
KentuckyWoman
(7,140 posts)But it is really hard to feel bad for him. I'll reserve that for the people who are stuck in a foreign torture prison or US genocide camp.
Prairie Gates
(5,706 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(166,528 posts)

Blues Heron
(7,181 posts)viva la
(4,190 posts)So just wait, soon he'll be okay with this.
Rebl2
(16,696 posts)40 years in this country has he not become a citizen. FAFO
Oopsie Daisy
(6,183 posts)Cry more, MAGA!
Norrrm
(2,445 posts)Hotler
(13,359 posts)For every one of you 50 others were torn from their families and were never to be seen or heard from again.
I wouldn't be whining.
Hornedfrog2000
(377 posts)Nobody cares asshole. Go home
Ping Tung
(3,069 posts)MorbidButterflyTat
(3,342 posts)He was detained for three hours and questioned about prior drug convictions at the Canadian border. Guess what? That happens. He wasn't thrown in Gitmo for three months.
He wasn't "torn from his family," for three hours!
He looks pretty comfy now, sitting on a couch in what is probably his New Hampshire home.
He couldn't, and didn't vote for the fugly felon.
He's looking for donations, or notoriety, or both.
dlilafae
(255 posts)Your fellow Americans warned you, repeatedly. Still, you sat listening to the propaganda before you, and chose to support a hit-witted criminal. Not sorry for you. You should have voted for the prosecutor.
poozwah
(345 posts)saw this on youtube and realized that hispanic becomes his panic when the policies of his hero adversely affects him.
Initech
(105,691 posts)
GaYellowDawg
(5,029 posts)I have zero sympathy.
IbogaProject
(4,667 posts)Maybe take your whole brood of spawn with you?
democratsruletheday
(1,364 posts)effed around and found out. Enjoy Canada.
Blues Heron
(7,181 posts)Esp. if youve been BANNED
YoshidaYui
(43,998 posts)Making life miserable for everyone, bastard
SidneyR
(161 posts)I wish I could be "stuck" in Canada. I wouldn't come back to this shitehole.
Initech
(105,691 posts)
Aussie105
(7,105 posts)Somehow, people who voted for Trump thought that fact would shield them from the chaos Trump forces onto the country.
Not as if you can pull out a 'get out of jail free' card, or were given an indelible forehead stramp saying you would untouchable from Trump's disruptive games when you voted.
Hopefully the new Canadian citizen has worked out his mistake for himself.
LearnedHand
(4,815 posts)Not much sympathy for this deported guy, but I loathe the proud cruelty with which this fucking administration lectures this guy about how a geeen card is a privilege.