Politics

11058 readers

100 users here now

In-depth political discussion from around the world; if it's a political happening, you can post it here.

Guidelines for submissions:

Where possible, post the original source of information.
- If there is a paywall, you can use alternative sources or provide an archive.today, 12ft.io, etc. link in the body.
Do not editorialize titles. Preserve the original title when possible; edits for clarity are fine.
Do not post ragebait or shock stories. These will be removed.
Do not post tabloid or blogspam stories. These will be removed.
Social media should be a source of last resort.

These guidelines will be enforced on a know-it-when-I-see-it basis.

Subcommunities on Beehaw:

Socialism

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 3 years ago

MODERATORS

remington@beehaw.org

alyaza@beehaw.org

TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.org

circularfish@beehaw.org

knokelmaat@beehaw.org

Welsh tourist detained in US immigration centre calls conditions 'horrendous' (www.bbc.com)

submitted 9 months ago by PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat to c/politics@beehaw.org

8 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 28 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

She had flown from New York to Portland, Oregon, where she spent time with a host family, helping with household chores in return for accommodation.

At the end of February she travelled to Seattle with plans to travel to Vancouver in Canada to stay with another family.

However, when she reached the border, Mr Burke said the Canadian authorities denied her entry as they were concerned she may try to work illegally.

She described how she spent six hours at the border, waiting while officials were "trying to determine if what I had been doing in America counted as work".

A few words about interacting with immigration: Less is more. Normal categories are good. Why are you in the country? "Tourism." Where'd you stay? "In a hotel." What do you do for work? "I'm a student." Did you see any sights while you were there? "Yeah." / "Not really."

Don't elaborate. Don't embellish. It's not that good an idea to lie outright, because they are pretty good at getting you tangled up in any little holes in your story, but you definitely don't need to paint any extra pictures for them, either. You were traveling. You stayed in a few different places. End of story. This woman's story is why. The immigration people are not good people.

I'm also interested to learn more about the people who have been in this facility for years. Why? What did they do? When are they getting out? Are they charged with anything, or just... there? Someone should really look into that. Trump definitely wants to find little crevices like that that he can stick people in. I expect that people like this guy from Columbia are going to be the first test cases of whether he can get away with it.