British tourist detained

[Crepitus]

I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre​

Burke had arrived in the US during the Biden administration, only to become one of 32,809 people to be arrested by Ice during the first 50 days of Donald Trump’s presidency. Since February, several young foreign nationals have been incarcerated in Ice detention centres for seemingly little reason and held for weeks, including Germans Lucas Sielaff, Fabian Schmidt and Jessica Brösche. (Brösche, 26, spent more than a month in detention, including eight days in solitary confinement.) Unlike these other cases, Burke had been trying to leave the US, rather than enter it, when she was detained for nearly three weeks.

This is the kinda thing that is prompting other countries to advise against tourism and business travel to the US, potentially costing trillions in economic activity.

 

[Scoutster]

Sucks to be her

 

[Rawley]

I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre​

Burke had arrived in the US during the Biden administration, only to become one of 32,809 people to be arrested by Ice during the first 50 days of Donald Trump’s presidency. Since February, several young foreign nationals have been incarcerated in Ice detention centres for seemingly little reason and held for weeks, including Germans Lucas Sielaff, Fabian Schmidt and Jessica Brösche. (Brösche, 26, spent more than a month in detention, including eight days in solitary confinement.) Unlike these other cases, Burke had been trying to leave the US, rather than enter it, when she was detained for nearly three weeks.

This is the kinda thing that is prompting other countries to advise against tourism and business travel to the US, potentially costing trillions in economic activity.

LOL Yeah, there's nothing more to any of their stories.

 

[ThisIsMe]

I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre​

Burke had arrived in the US during the Biden administration, only to become one of 32,809 people to be arrested by Ice during the first 50 days of Donald Trump’s presidency. Since February, several young foreign nationals have been incarcerated in Ice detention centres for seemingly little reason and held for weeks, including Germans Lucas Sielaff, Fabian Schmidt and Jessica Brösche. (Brösche, 26, spent more than a month in detention, including eight days in solitary confinement.) Unlike these other cases, Burke had been trying to leave the US, rather than enter it, when she was detained for nearly three weeks.

This is the kinda thing that is prompting other countries to advise against tourism and business travel to the US, potentially costing trillions in economic activity.

I agree, we need common sense in our handling of these things, but we don't need to scrap the system altogether.

 

[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre​

Burke had arrived in the US during the Biden administration, only to become one of 32,809 people to be arrested by Ice during the first 50 days of Donald Trump’s presidency. Since February, several young foreign nationals have been incarcerated in Ice detention centres for seemingly little reason and held for weeks, including Germans Lucas Sielaff, Fabian Schmidt and Jessica Brösche. (Brösche, 26, spent more than a month in detention, including eight days in solitary confinement.) Unlike these other cases, Burke had been trying to leave the US, rather than enter it, when she was detained for nearly three weeks.

This is the kinda thing that is prompting other countries to advise against tourism and business travel to the US, potentially costing trillions in economic activity.

Well, as usual, you Leftists only tell half the story. She wasn't detained when she tried to leave The United States. She was detained when she was trying to enter The United States. No doubt there's more to the story, but we'll never heard it from the Pravda Media.

 

[1srelluc]

she was told she had violated her tourist visa by working in the US.

Good detention.

 

[IM2]

Excuses are all the right has for this move to fascism.

 

[Mac-7]

I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre​

Burke had arrived in the US during the Biden administration, only to become one of 32,809 people to be arrested by Ice during the first 50 days of Donald Trump’s presidency. Since February, several young foreign nationals have been incarcerated in Ice detention centres for seemingly little reason and held for weeks, including Germans Lucas Sielaff, Fabian Schmidt and Jessica Brösche. (Brösche, 26, spent more than a month in detention, including eight days in solitary confinement.) Unlike these other cases, Burke had been trying to leave the US, rather than enter it, when she was detained for nearly three weeks.

This is the kinda thing that is prompting other countries to advise against tourism and business travel to the US, potentially costing trillions in economic activity.

I read as much as the Guardian paywall would allow and never got to the bottom line

Was she just selected at random cause Homeland Security are meanies?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre​

Burke had arrived in the US during the Biden administration, only to become one of 32,809 people to be arrested by Ice during the first 50 days of Donald Trump’s presidency. Since February, several young foreign nationals have been incarcerated in Ice detention centres for seemingly little reason and held for weeks, including Germans Lucas Sielaff, Fabian Schmidt and Jessica Brösche. (Brösche, 26, spent more than a month in detention, including eight days in solitary confinement.) Unlike these other cases, Burke had been trying to leave the US, rather than enter it, when she was detained for nearly three weeks.

This is the kinda thing that is prompting other countries to advise against tourism and business travel to the US, potentially costing trillions in economic activity.

When she tried to cross into Canada, Canadian border officials told her that her living arrangements meant she should be travelling on a work visa, not a tourist one. They sent her back to the US, where American officials classed her as an illegal alien.

Thanks for half the story, moron.

 

[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

Excuses are all the right has for this move to fascism.

Is Burke above the law?

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

This is the kinda thing that is prompting other countries to advise against tourism and business travel to the US, potentially costing trillions in economic activity.

This the kind of thing that authoritarian fascist dictatorships do – because Trump is in fact a fascist thug.

 

[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

This the kind of thing that authoritarian fascist dictatorships do – because Trump is in fact a fascist thug.

Enforcing the law is fascism, now?...lol

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Excuses are all the right has for this move to fascism.

Excuses, lies, and childish deflections.

The right’s support of Trump is consistent with conservatives’ contempt for the Constitution and the rule of law.

 

[DonGlock26]

I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre​

Burke had arrived in the US during the Biden administration, only to become one of 32,809 people to be arrested by Ice during the first 50 days of Donald Trump’s presidency. Since February, several young foreign nationals have been incarcerated in Ice detention centres for seemingly little reason and held for weeks, including Germans Lucas Sielaff, Fabian Schmidt and Jessica Brösche. (Brösche, 26, spent more than a month in detention, including eight days in solitary confinement.) Unlike these other cases, Burke had been trying to leave the US, rather than enter it, when she was detained for nearly three weeks.

This is the kinda thing that is prompting other countries to advise against tourism and business travel to the US, potentially costing trillions in economic activity.

Sounds like Canada refused to take her into their country because she was claiming to be a tourist when really she was working.



"She wasn’t thinking about the dismal state of US-Canada relations when she handed her passport to the Canadian border official. He asked what she was planning to do in Canada. Travel, she replied. He asked where she was staying. Living with a man and his family, she said. He asked how she knew him. Becky said they had met on Workaway, and that she would be helping out around the house. The official told her they needed to research what Workaway was. He told Becky’s coach driver to leave without her.

Workaway warns users that they “will need the correct visa for any country that you visit”, and that it is the user’s responsibility to get one, but it doesn’t stipulate what the correct visa is for the kind of arrangements it facilitates in any given country. Becky had always travelled with a tourist visa in the past – including to the US in 2022 – without any problems. She checked that work visas were only required for paid work in Canada. She had had months to plan her trip, and would have applied for a work visa if it was necessary, she says.

But the Canadian officials told Becky they’d determined she needed a work visa. She could apply for one from the US and come back, they said. Two officers escorted her to the American side of the border. They talked to the US officials. Becky doesn’t know what was said."

I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre

Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking of going to Trump’s America: don’t do it

www.theguardian.com

 

[DonGlock26]

This the kind of thing that authoritarian fascist dictatorships do – because Trump is in fact a fascist thug.

I agree. Canada is an authoritarian fascist dictatorship.

 

[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

Excuses, lies, and childish deflections.

The right’s support of Trump is consistent with conservatives’ contempt for the Constitution and the rule of law.

It's your party that wants to ban the 1st and 2nd Amendments. Why don't you get pissed off about that?

 

[Crepitus]

she was told she had violated her tourist visa by working in the US.

Good detention.

She wasn't working.

DERP

 

[1srelluc]

She wasn't working.

DERP

I'll take ICE's word over some scatter-brained Brit woman.

 

[Crepitus]

I'll take ICE's word over some scatter-brained Brit woman.

Why in the world would you at this point?

 

[Scoutster]

I'll take ICE's word over some scatter-brained Brit woman.