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Brösche, 26, never made it to LA. She’s been in federal immigration custody since Jan. 25 — the day they tried to cross into the United States through the San Ysidro Port of Entry.
Brösche had her German passport, confirmation of her visa waiver to enter the country, along with a copy of her return ticket back to Berlin, Lofving said. A U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent pulled Brösche aside for a secondary inspection.
She didn’t know it then, but it would be 25 days before Lofving would see her friend again. Brösche would spend that time in federal detention, where she remains, waiting for a deportation flight back to Berlin.
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Not one precious white person!!! \s
Everyone knows it’s news and injustice if it happens to be a white person, otherwise it’s normal border control measures to protect America and it’s freedoms.
Her scheduled flight home was Feb 15. They could literally have escorted her to the airport at that point and have been done with the case.
This is ridiculous.
If the germans weren’t pussies they would kick the yank out of rammstein real quick.
But hey, they are quite tempted by the far right themselves.
It’s the airbase where if I remember correctly US pilots train German and Ukrainian pilots. US pilots that unlike any other pilots in the world have actually used planes in combat situations.
Don’t be too hasty to dissolve NATO. There’s a difference between trying to decrease European reliance on the US military and just destroying NATO with no replacement in sight
Yes, we’re tempted by the right, too. But ousting them now would do no good.
But Ramstein (only one m, unlike the band) - keep the USians there for a time, let’s keep it as is for a time until it’s time to make some kind of deal.
They might need it one day, so we keep it as a collateral.
All long term international agreements and security guarantees died on the weekend so we need tangible things to force our former allies - now those we have deals with - to ensure they behave.
The correct thing to do would be our foreign office to issue an official travel warning for the US. (Which would have some impact on tourism to the US)
Let’s keep the big things for later, we WILL need them.
She didn’t even do anything. They just took her aside because they thought she might use her time to work in the US. What the fuck is wrong with those people?
Give people power without accountability and this is what happens. Every single time. That’s what the rule of law is about and that’s why fascists hate it so much.
Commenting to emphasize this.
I bet she’s attractive to the people who detained her. Why would they separate her from her friend.
I would not even fly to the USA right now, if I would get paid to do so. This country turned from one of the most attractive targets into a total shithole within weeks.
to be fair, it was not an attractive target before either for a long tim, independently of the president. CBP and ICE were bad people for a very long time now, and that’s not even the only problem
The US stopped being an attractive target to me the moment they fucked over Iraq.
“online sleuths tracked Brösche to the Otay Mesa Detention Center, which is a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility run by the private contractor Core Civic.”
Oh cool we’ve got private contractors running ICE detention facilities
And her indefinite hold wouldn’t have anything to do with the fact that they get paid every single day she is there
Yeah, core civic is the largest private prison company in the U.S., headquartered in Nashville. I took a contract doing IT work there a few years back. I quit very quickly. I made it all of 2 days before I learned doctors with suspended licenses are allowed to keep practicing in prison systems.
🎵nazis🎵
What the fuuuuck
You know, I’m actually not surprised. I wish I was, but I’m not.
I learned doctors with suspended licenses are allowed to keep practicing in prison systems.
fffffuuuuck.
especially, when you consider how fucking hard it is to pull the licenses on incompetent, abusive and shady docs. fucking hells
Npr was talking about this yesterday on the radio, it’s apparently very common.
baaaaaaaaarrrfffffff
Wtf
Want to cut costs on medical? Hire someone not legally allowed to practice medicine elsewhere. U.S. loopholes can get pretty horrendous.
I am honestly completely revolted
Things have been like that way before Trump. You only see, sporadically, headlines like that, when Europeans are affected. Oh well
Brown or Asian people happening to them weekly: 😴 🙄
One white person happening to them: 🫨 😡
As the saying goes, Fascism is colonialism turned inwards. We’ve been doing this for decades now, it’s only scary because it’s happening to milquetoast white people.
Maybe this gets people to wake up a little more about the situation we’re in.
I don’t think this is concerning because an European is affected. It is concerning because is happening to a tourist that clearly was going to return home, that the conditions in these centers are terrible for everyone there, and that at least some of these detention centers are run by for-profit private companies. It is no secret that the immigration system in the US is broken and is pretty much inhumane. It goes beyond who is in the White House, and speaks volumes on how broken the American society is.
You’d have to be downright r-worded today to want to visit USA. Not this woman, I mean every one who comes after her.
Yeah. I have friends who are wanting to come to the US. “It couldn’t happen to me, I’m white” they say. “I’m from Europe, I’ll be safe” they say.
No.
It’ll happen to them, and I’m scared because they refuse to listen.
Send them a link to this story.
I did.
As an American, I would recommend that folk reconsider travel to the US during the current administration. There are no longer checks and balances and it’s a very dangerous place at the moment. They’re removing all accountability for the border patrol and any immigration adjacent services so they can now do whatever they want. You’re at the complete mercy of the immigration service and they have full latitude to do whatever they want (legal or illegal) as the threat of repercussions have been removed. Be safe out there.
My university sent out travel warning announcements about the US to all students and staff through email and matrix last week. Basically warning everyone, especially queer people, that you should expect complications or unjust treatment when traveling to the US. Kinda crazy that some german university takes this more serious than the US democrats take the end of their democracy.
While this is true, people travel to Dubai and to Thailand and to Egypt (maybe not much recently) and, well, to Turkey.
Accountability and checks and balances in countries listed are such that the former two are technically absolute monarchies, so in that regard worse in skeleton than England after Magna Carta.
One difference is that Egypt and Turkey have a lot of tourism, so they tend to be quite tolerant towards tourists. You don’t want to scare off potential customers. The US seems to forget that.
And these police that have you at their mercy are pm selected for being dumb, and anyone who wants the job just wants the power to harm people. Also they get like two days of training before being given a badge and a gun. When they abuse their power, even when they murder people, they have next to zero accountability.
Don’t come here. Most of Central America is fantastically beautiful, welcoming, and safe. From what I understand Canada is as well (I’m not allowed in the country) but it’s cold there much of the year.
Thanks. The US is the last place I wanted to go anyway, I don’t want to support genociders.
I would go. But i’m not crossing the border legally lmao no fucking way.
It’s the goddamn plot of Mexican Joker from South Park happening in real time
Sue Sue Sue. Take them all down and take them over the coals for every cent you can get.
I don’t want to be mean, but I think it’s a bit naive that a German citizen would be able to sue the US gov with the current checks and balances
What checks and balances?
Sueing everything and everybody is such an American thing to do.
She’ll be glad to get the fuck out of that shithole and never look back.
Add tourism to another industry Trump is helping out.
And she remains waiting for a deportation flight back to Berlin, when she already had her own return ticket? Which she would have used already by now and been gone??? God these people are so fucking stupid.
… another industry Trump is helping stamp out.
I have to admit: I just crossed the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone Park off my bucket list whilst reading this story.
The police firearm homicides always felt a bit iffy but this clinches it. Definitely not going to try to visit that country. It’s not a risk I’m willing to run.
Maybe the US government will collapse in your lifetime and it will be super cheap to visit then!
Visiting a failed state just sounds even riskier.
As far as I can tell the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone are both located in Republican stronghold areas so would possibly still be acting like this to tourists, but it would be harder for my country’s embassy to rescue me. Solitary confinement can cause long-term mental health damage.
Thanks for trying to cheer me up, though! I was genuinely a bit disappointed (though, very glad I read this article) but it’s a reminder to think outside the box and look for other of nature’s wonders that maybe aren’t talked about so much and are located in places that are safer to visit.
I just commented this to some other person here. I’ll paste my answer; I hope that’s okay.
China, India, Peru, and Mexico, to name a few, have deeper and larger canyons. A similar one to the Grand Canyon is the Copper Canyon. It is located in Chihuahua, Mexico. It is four times larger and almost twice as deep as the Grand Canyon. It has many tourists’ activities, and you can even add other destinations to your journey if you visit it by train. It is a nice option while we all wait for the end of the almost-fascist/probably-fascist situation in the U.S.
Thanks very much, friend. That looks amazing. I just checked and Mexico also has some national parks with North American wildlife and even volcanoes! This one looks great.
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You’re lucky that they let you back out after you entered france without a Visa, even if it’s just for a snack.
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By the time Trump is done we’re going to need a specific Visa just to go to Canada…
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Don’t travel to the US. As a foreigner it’s literally like traveling into an authoritarian regime. When filing for the visa they ask for all your socials, opinions, etc. Some immigration officers will go through your phone on arrival. It’s grim.
Trying to find a solution? Let her fucking go home. It’s not difficult
And this is just a story that made the news out of sheer luck. Imagine how many more innocent people are locked up or worse.
In Norwegian, live in Denmark and work for a Danish company, who also operates in the US. If my manager were to say, it ask, if I can go to the US office for work, I’ll say no unless I get a really fucking good life insurance while I’m there. I don’t want to go to the US for whatever reason.
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Just a point of order, we’re not selling machineguns in Wal Mart yet. I have no hope of stopping such a future though. The court case against the machinegun ban is already moving to the Supreme Court.
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You do indeed need to pass the orange test. They hold a Florida Orange up and if you aren’t at least that shade of orange you have to abide by the law.
Nordic countries > EU countries + Switzerland > Oceania > rest. Unfortunately, I have to admit it as a German.
Not sheer luck, but because she’s german. Germans haven’t been mass migrating to America since the 60s at the latest and her detention is a change from the norm of us mostly only doing this to Latin Americans, Caribbean folks, Middle Easterners, and Africans
So Eastern Europe is not in the list? Just askin
Nope, they aren’t brown enough to be on the list.
I have no idea. We don’t get enough of you for it to be a thing we really talk about
They don’t talk about it because that’s not the colour of immigrant they’re worried about. Europeans make up 10% of all immigrants living in the states - the 3rd largest region group after those from the Americas (52%) and from Asia(31%), which you also didn’t mention above.
Africans and middle eastern people are on your list of talked about immigrants because they are the right colour for the media to complain about despite making up less of the immigrant population in the states.
It’s certainly notable because of that, but her Germanity isn’t what led people to finally locate her - what the article outlined was a series of fortunate events.
Imagine how many American citizens are sitting in these camps and will be deported to some other country as Trump tries to eliminate due process and rob them of their day in court.
And this is just a story that made the news out of sheer
luckwhite privilege.
