ConstableJelly

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And for who?

To reiterate your point, ICE “has no authority to detain U.S. citizens, but has long done so, usually for hours or days, when officers mistake identities or can’t immediately verify citizenship.”

10 months for this man, apparently for no other reason than because he suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, and as a result of a “deeply entrenched delusional belief system,” claims he was born in Jamaica. The amount of time and money, not to mention suffering, spent on this useless pursuit is disgraceful.

That’s definitely not a major focus though. I felt it more as a sick reveal and confirmation (there are a couple times up to that point where she briefly has conscious control) of what’s really happening there.

That being said, the overall effect of the narrative achieves a very similar goal. It’s just not a victim’s story, it’s a perpetrator’s story. Bear is a fucking coward, and his passivity, willful ignorance, and eventual outright complicity make him a villain. This is a story about how a guy whose initial motivation is not, technically, to cause abuse, is still every bit as much of an abuser.