Welsh tourist in US chained 'like Hannibal Lecter'
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Like how of any nation is that green?
Doesn’t help that we have 3 identical political parties and then 1 party willing to join the trump train.
As much as I hate voting conservative this election I’m quite fed up with the liberals that represent us.
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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).
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The “according to the law” line gets me, the laws are inhumane, you’re not a good person because you enforce nazi laws
There is no law anymore. This is full on dictatorship. Judges are being ignored. SCOTUS is complicit.
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You think he will be gone after 4?
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.
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I agree. It’s always been bubbling under the surface. Trump ignited the filth.
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You think he will be gone after 4?
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.
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Sorry, I don’t trust the people either when Trump has a nearly 50% approval rating
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I agree. It’s always been bubbling under the surface. Trump ignited the filth.
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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.
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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
Wasn't it found that those two actually were spies, and it wasn't complete bs that China made that accusation?
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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.
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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.
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.
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A US customs spokesman previously said they could not discuss specific cases but that travellers were treated with "integrity, respect and according to law".
Bullshit. Too many stories are coming out that prove that's a lie.
Fuck America and fuck Trump.
Anyone who's been arrested knows what a bunch of bullshit that is. The psychopath American people created a legal system that's as harsh and dehumanizing as they could possibly make it under the constitution, and now it's going to get worse.
The fucking cop car seats are made out of hard plastic, and there are no seat belts. They literally want you to fucking die in the way to jail. They don't care if you're innocent or guilty. And that's just the beginning.
The American people have made it plainly obvious for decades that the constitution is just a piece of paper that gets in the way of their bloodlust and cruelty.
Anyone who's surprised by America veering into fascism has only known this country from a coddled point of view. The current dictatorship is a wet dream for a lot of Americans, and they aren't going to change their minds until he destroys the country, and even then they'll probably celebrate it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
