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Summary
Welsh tourist Becky Burke was detained for 19 days in a US immigration facility and transported in chains like “Hannibal Lecter” after alleged visa violations.
Burke had been backpacking and staying with host families in exchange for help around the house, which authorities suspected breached her tourist visa conditions.
Deported on March 18, she described the ordeal as traumatizing. Her parents criticized the harsh treatment and are considering addressing the issue politically.
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They don’t want foreigners in that country any more, and are willing to treat them badly to get their message across.
Don’t end up in one of their detainment concentration camps, you never know when you’ll be allowed to leave, the way they keep suddenly changing how they do things - for the worse - every few weeks, it could be never.
Don’t go to that country. It’s too dangerous.
Our government certainly doesn’t want foreigners here, but the people remain welcoming.
I lived in San Diego, CA for the entirety of Trump’s first term. He kept making it sound like criminals were flooding in there, and harming us. The narrative was that we were victims, and he was some sort of hero.
The reality was we love our Mexican neighbors… And we fucking hate that asshole for lying and demonizing our friends, colleagues, and family members.
This all said, it is not safe here any longer for us in the long term, or foreigners in the short term. He has lost his damn mind, literally, and his followers are brainwashed. America is unsafe, and unstable.
We should demolish the iron curtain splitting the San Diego - Tijuana metro in half
I don’t know if I trust the people either when Trump has a nearly 50% approval rating
As an American, I agree with you. I DONT trust my neighbors or colleagues.
I’m lucky to work in an office that is a healthy mix of ethnicities so when I talk about politics there’s enough people to make the racist bootlicking types obey their primary motivator, fear, and keep quiet.
Also they might just deport you to some concentration camp in El Salvador for having the wrong tattoo and who knows if you can get out of there ever again. I wouldn’t trust anyone saying “they would never do that to tourists” at this point.
Well, you won’t see me entering the US anytime soon.
Omg I was actually worried for a second! She had to shuffle lol true this maybe embarrassing and the process dehumanising. People are dying under state powers.
These are the privileged individuals who get good media coverage (read: conventionally attractive young white women) and have wealth and/or connections. Everyone knows that if this is how they’re treating the most privileged of people, it’s going to be 100x worse for those who aren’t as privileged. Covering abuses in the news that are indefensible makes it much harder to ignore the less black and white abuses that are happening every day
Hannibal Lecter was straightjacketed, strapped to a hand truck, and muzzled.
I think they mean in the cage scene, isn’t he chained up and then gets the key off the guy by eating him and wearing his face?
Well why didn’t she try that?
And as we all know, simile must always be used with 100% accuracy or it’s all bullshit.
The interesting thing about this is the amount of spin the bbc is putting on it. They generally do far less of that than US media outlets. But calling her a tourist in the headline is a clear misrepresentation. And really, they didn’t even need to go there. The real story was already bad enough. She could have been full on running a housekeeping business, and the chains still would be ridiculous cruelty worth reporting on. Even Canada said no way when she tried to enter as a “tourist”. But I guess she should have asked for assylum rather than come back to the US at that point.
Yes it curious. I expect it’s just some young keen reporter exploiting the zeitgeist.
Like a lot of countries, the US have never been kind to visa abusers, but chaining them up is new. I note they haven’t asked her how it happened and she has t said, yet.
Others have speculated that she was just to honest with the boarder staff. And just told them what she was doing. Probably didn’t even know it was against the terms of her visa. But remember, Elon says empathy is our greatest weakness. Doesn’t seem to be much of that in ICE.
But calling her a tourist in the headline is a clear misrepresentation
Sure thing, and if you stay over at a friend’s house and make the bed in the morning it’s their legal obligation to report you for not obtaining a proper license for your housecleaning business first /s
These weren’t “friends” houses. I personally think there should be some kind of visa for this. I just don’t like how media headlines continue to get worse. The BBC has been better than most.
Can’t wait until the summer rolls around and the fascists start arresting kids for setting up lemonade stands and whatnot.
I wouldn’t be surprised at all to hear about a cop shooting a kid for opening a lemonade stand.
I mean, we already had a cop empty their entire mag into the woods because a walnut fell onto his car
HEY NOW, it was an acorn. Way different.
Also it wasn’t the woods, but an already detained “suspect” in the back of their police cruiser (where suspect is just really a person of colour in the wrong place at the wrong time).
Cops are the main violent gang in my community
Why are we not seeing more travel advisories? I know of a few but if this was any other nation you would have advisories from almost everyone by now.
There’s some inertia that needs to be overcome, but it’s coming. UK and Germany already posted (rather tame…) advisories.
It’s happening, slowly but surely. UK issued one today.
Like how of any nation is that green?
Jesus this is all there is for gender/sex/race/immigrant/etc discrimination, if you can even say it’s about that
The link about “travel and your identity” idr what it says exactly but it isn’t anything specific to US and certainly not much help in the current scenario
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Traveling to a fascist country might be challenging, I personnaly wouldn’t take the chance.
Or, at least, only go with organized tours and a local guide. As long as you don’t steal any propaganda posters, you should survive.
Anyone willing to encourage tourism to America by being such a guide would probably take your money and then find a reason to get you arrested by ICE anyway. Not like you could take it up with a consumer protection agency now.
This is the real way America will stop immigrants. By being completely awful.
I’d like to see how policies like these affect hospitality and tourism here in the States. These stories are not good for business.
For some reason I’m confident this is not the first time this happened. But now it’s covered by European sources so news leak out to the public.
It happened to a well known Canadian actress (she is well known for her role in the American pie films). She was detained for months over what would have been a tiny paperwork error just a few years ago. She said that the women she was imprisoned also had no criminal record but were treated like murderers.
Such an inhumane country. Keeping people in shackles like cattle. Hell, not even cattle gets treated like that.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44518942 And yet, he was voted in AGAIN.
Another reminder: these, and all the detention facilities are privately owned and for profit. The motivation is to have a full house to maximize profits.
Just more systems put in place to worship the American God: money.
No crime is too great as long as the parasites at the top are taking more and more and more of our wealth and prosperity from us.
Where do you find people deranged enough to do this to other human beings without any rational explanation?
It seems like “everyday sadists” are attracted to positions of petty authority, but it appears to be a requirement to be some kinda psycho to be offered the job at the border.
How many people oversaw this? How many questioned it? How many said nothing?
Anybody who still travels to the Untied States at this point is a fool
After reading some of these stories I would not visit the US right now. Id stay home and stay safe
So long as Magats remain in charge, traveling to the US is now like traveling to China. You’ll probably see some pretty cool things but also have an above 0% chance for a life traumatizing event.
I do that with regimes. I started out with Turkey, added Hungary and Israel, Russia, Philippines Saudi Arabia and quatar
Countries I’d visit are shrinking.
They probably freaked out when she started speaking Welsh. Understandable.
Frankly, it’s an upper class/ lower class situation. Welsh people, historically just couldn’t afford vowels. ;-)
You mean when they spoke terrorist? /s
Me (British) and my American gf are planning to visit her friends and family over the summer in Navada, Washington and New Mexico. Not so sure i want to go anymore.
Geezus. I’m right next door (Canadian), and I wouldn’t even consider going there. They’re going to start using ANY excuse to detain people. In December 2018, Canadian nationals Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig were taken into custody in China. It appeared that their detention on December 10 and subsequent indictment under the state secrets law were linked to the arrest of Huawei’s chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, in Canada on December 1. In English-language media, the pair are frequently and colloquially referred to as the Two Michaels. Wikipedia. EDIT: I spent 35 years crossing the border camping, shopping, and feeling like I was with trusted neighbours. Really sad…
Wasn’t it found that those two actually were spies, and it wasn’t complete bs that China made that accusation?
I’m Latino Canadian so I’m not going anywhere near the u.s, fuck that.
I’m brown in the US and I try not going anywhere. Every morning I have to drive by a school zone to get to the freeway and the police always parks right by the 20mph sign. If you don’t see the fucker there, he is somewhere already detaining someone.
I’ve got a few friends that were adopted , one of Columbian decent the other Korean. I askd them how their feeling about all this if theyre worried. My Columbian buddy is a little concerned , wants tinted windows on his car etc., cant say i blame him.
Back during fuckboys first term my Korean buddy got locked up for a few months (non violent crime). I went to pick him up , when I got to the jail they said he was being detained. I got in touch later that evening and he was released. They were about to send him to Washington D.C. to get sent back to south Korea because of some bull shit error on his adoption paperwork from the early 80’s. Luckily it all got straitened out but he was scared , he said they weren’t fucking around. He was terrified he was going to get sent back to a country he left at 3 years old with no chance to return over a clerical error.
I could only imagine the wrong people (im not saying anyone deserves this level of harassment) are going to get hammered by all this hair trigger jackboot coward behavior.
I hope you don’t get fucked with out there
If either one of you is even the slightest bit tanned, not that I find that likely in Britain, but I digress, neither one of you should even consider coming to this hateful place for the next four years at least.
You think he will be gone after 4?
If you think he will, you haven’t been paying attention. Is more likely that he dies and the weird face guy has to take the copilot seat while Elon drives, just like today.
Weird face guy? who dat?
Dictatorship does not have fair elections.
As I said, “at least.” I fully expect this bullshit to take multiple decades to Luigi everyone that is causing it because they just won’t stop being greedy and hateful.
I enjoy seeing Luigi as a verb.
I’m of the opinion of having them ‘mangioned’
Hopefully he’ll be deceased long before then but the reich is busy stacking courts and appointing party line people to jobs they have no qualifications for.
Call ICE hotline, explain that her friends and family are all illegal aliens, then you can all meet at the ICE detention centre - no planning stress!
Don’t.
It’s not safe here
Don’t. I used to hike around the southern states for fun. Currently residing in one. The border patrol goons are just headhunting to fill quotas now. Anybody is game. I myself am planning my move out of country right now. Even the magats are not safe and are willing to sacrifice themselves for their hateful ideals.
100% trust your gut. It’s not a good idea.
At this point I would recommend against any non-US national from traveling to the US.
And i would recommend anyone from the US, already traveling outside, and not 100% bleach white, to increase your vacation time for a few years and not come back if possible as you will probably be detained even with a legit passport and documentation. Maybe seek asylum.
Maybe they’ll dust off the good ole “dirty whites” hate and discriminate against jews Italians and irish again.
not 100% bleach white
More like any from:
- Not 100% bleach white
- Not 4 generations American
- Not a MAGA
- LGBTQ+
- Related to any anti-MAGAs
- Is pro-Palestinian or pro-Ukraine
- Has any part of their identity that can be used as an excuse to deport
Basically everyone other than Trump and the core MAGAs
Do not go to America! I wouldn’t take any chances. At this point we are a dictatorship country and you’ll be held in a prison if you can escape the corrupt pigs and ice.
Stay the fuck away.
