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  • Vancouver, Washington. Its at the very south of Washington state, just a few minutes drive from the Oregon border and Portland. It’s almost intentionally confusing.

    Because Washington has no state income tax but does have a high sales tax and Oregon has no sales tax, but a high income tax, its a “no taxes” hack to live and work in Vancouver, then work and shop in Oregon. Its also a dick move, as you get to Oregon across these large, expensive bridges you pay literally $0 dollars to maintain.

    You basically leech off two states resources while paying very little into their coffers.







  • Sure. His first comment excused this brutal US behavior by saying “Europe has immigration laws too,” implying what the US just did to a 35 yr legal, green card holding US resident was fine and ordinary.

    His second comment ignored me asking about how Europe treats immigrants and answered a different question by saying that “they can’t just stay in Europe.”

    This has almost nothing to do with what happened to this man. He has been detained in his legal country of residence, his home of 35 years, for no crime. He was detained while literally leaving the country, something that you would expect immigration would want if they didn’t want him here.

    At no point did he “stay too long” in the US as that isn’t possible. Even if he somehow could, which he could not, he was still literally leaving.

    So this case is nothing like European laws having to do with overstaying a visa. Bringing it up in a “duh guys, it’s just like the laws everywhere else” way is a disingenuous deflection from the fact that no, it is not. That is why they are being downvoted.