US / Canada immigration
ANOTHER European has been sent to a US detention centre because the border officials decided that she was trying to enter the USA illegally from Canada despite the fact this person was a UK citizen with the appropriate documents.
This poor young woman is trapped for almost two weeks in a detention centre, which is LONGER than her entire trip to North America.
If the US is treating the citizens of its allies like this, despite the fact that they have the right documents, then I would consider it a place unsafe for tourists at all. There is no reason to visit the USA if tourists on a tourist visa are being indefinitely detained on a whim.
The USA wants to be hostile to any person who is vaguely foreign in their territories, whatever they define that to be. If tourists are getting sent to camps, then you bet that the US is now hungry to lock up anyone they seem “wrong”.
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Certainly the recent changes have likely emboldened the border agents in these matters but this kind of thing has happened over the years. My lawyer recently informed me of a British citizen client he had a year ago who got detained and deported in the US because he was a musician and took his banjo on the flight with him. They asked about it, he said he wanted to jam with some bluegrass musicians, and they interpreted that as work and he was detained.
This kind of thing has been happening for a while honestly
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I almost had her again in January but she was so intense with the person in front of me that they got taken to the back room with her and I got moved to another line with a much nicer person
It's been the case for at least 20 years that constitutional rights simply don't exist when you are crossing a border in the US. Obviously that's the case for Canada too since it's the same border.
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