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stevepeers.bsky.social • 8 days ago

Appalling treatment of Australian woman seeking to visit husband in USA
https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/terrified-excop-jailed-and-deported-during-holiday-to-us/news-story/f48a5e5f7337df29dcd3679336bf6031

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scientits.bsky.social•8 days ago

My god, that's awful

ldn001.bsky.social•8 days ago

Trump’s America. Innocent Australian woman, legally visiting the US from Australia to see her husband serving in the military, abused & deported. She deleted her Instagram 3 days prior. Anyone deemed critical of Trump without evidence is jailed & deported.

experimental22.bsky.social•8 days ago

No one is safe crossing the US border. Citizenship means nothing.

Anyone can be taken off the street and sent anywhere in the world.

whywouldyou.bsky.social•7 days ago

Why appalling?

It's the norm for many PoC coming to the UK.

williamhumphrey.bsky.social•7 days ago

Visited US 3 times in the 1990's. Getting through immigration was always an unpleasant experience, daft question time! UK Border Force have adopted the same scowls nowadays too I notice. Why use the term 'Force'.....deliberately oppressive ?

kingstondan.bsky.social•7 days ago

Just utterly horrific. Like many I've also been to the US many times but I will not go there as long as it remains a fascist country. Revolting.

vintaget.bsky.social•8 days ago

This is like Nazi Germany!

kegbot1.bsky.social•7 days ago

I made the mistake of reading the comments including the obvious Trumpamericans blandly approving her detention because she had the wrong visa. Well does having the wrong visa excuse the barbaric treatment this woman received? It does the US little credit to treat people like murderers.

sophiemac.bsky.social•8 days ago

But you sort of have to wonder why a sane person would even think about going to the US at the moment

yevkras.bsky.social•8 days ago

For her husband

sophiemac.bsky.social•8 days ago

I did read that. If I was her husband I'd have said not to come and visit me because it's not safe at the moment. I wouldn't want my person put through that or even the possibility of that

stevepeers.bsky.social•8 days ago

I can see why a US citizen serving in the US military would think surely his wife visiting him legally would be fine. My own family think I'm paranoid for refusing to travel there...

sophiemac.bsky.social•8 days ago

I can see why he might think that too. I just wish people would think about how it is, not how they think it is. Anyone is fair game it would seem and everyone needs to remember that nobody is safe

yevkras.bsky.social•8 days ago

I don’t think that you’re paranoid. It’s as if they have quotas to meet as to how many could be let in and how many must be deported/turned away. They’re torturing folks and they should suffer career and legal consequences for it in the future

stevepeers.bsky.social•8 days ago

Even if I get a burner phone there's lots of my criticism of Trump online if they search for it...

sophiemac.bsky.social•8 days ago

I really hope somehow this ends quickly. I just can't see it though because the more I look at world leaders the more I see they don't care at all about the citizens they're supposed to protect and look after

yevkras.bsky.social•8 days ago

I don’t think that it has sunk in yet. Her husband is in the military. He is a US citizen. She has a proper visa and paperwork allowing her to visit him. There is no good reason for them to suspect anything like this could happen—lots of Americans are still convinced that only criminals get this

sophiemac.bsky.social•8 days ago

The world has changed. The United Kingdom used to be at least pretending to be a democracy. Now if you protest, even peacefully, you get imprisoned. The US seems to have no rules. If they think you look wrong, if they got up on the wrong side of the bed, you're in trouble. Dark times

yevkras.bsky.social•8 days ago

That’s true, but I’m hopeful that this brutal mask-off approach will so upend and make desperate the base of support those like Trump have that they will leave him. I’m hopeful that this will also galvanize those who are against this depravity.

yevkras.bsky.social•8 days ago

Absolute monsters are in charge. Goddamn evil SOBs.

beecherbibles56.bsky.social•7 days ago

You know, while I get that she’s not American, police backed Trump by Saddam Hussein margins so maybe she should look to her fellow travelers who voted for this rather than the general public for sympathy.

stefaniabarutta.bsky.social•8 days ago

I have been to the USA a number of times, I am never setting foot again. The officers don’t have to be *rseholes in carrying out their “new duties”, they enjoy the cruelty just as much as Trump.

stephenswan.bsky.social•7 days ago

Abhorrent treatment. The only advice worth giving is not to visit the US for business or pleasure if you can possibly avoid it. If that harms to US economy so be it.

publicschoolboy.bsky.social•8 days ago

out-fucking-rageous

brexitmyarse.bsky.social•8 days ago

Another reason why I will never set foot in that toxic racist shithole of a country.

kateedmonds.bsky.social•8 days ago

Exactly why I won't be doing my usual annual visit to my friend in Oregon or asking him to leave the US and meet me somewhere safe. They're out of control over there and literally anything could happen. She could've been killed in that prison. They just don't care. They want a climate of fear.

mh8748.bsky.social•8 days ago

Reading the article, her only crime seemed to be looking Hispanic and having tattoos?

ldn001.bsky.social•8 days ago

And deleting her Instagram 3 days prior.

saneresponz.bsky.social•7 days ago

I just hope that the many stories of inhumane treatment of tourists to the US will stir more and more global condemnation. And as the US tourism industry crashes, maybe more Americans will open their eyes to this expanding authoritarian nightmare we're living in and want to change it.

farmingforjustice2.bsky.social•7 days ago

Wow, we have to end the Trump nightmare

rbv-3896.bsky.social•7 days ago

Why would anyone risk traveling here from abroad? What do we have to offer that makes the detention and body cavity searches worth it?

eekyrich.bsky.social•8 days ago

TBH she’s married to a us person coming to the us lots with lots of bags on a visitor visa? If she did the same in the uk the immigration staff would be similarly suspicious and might refuse her entry

ldn001.bsky.social•8 days ago

There’s no mention of the amount of bags she had. Visiting your husband 3 times in 3 months on a legal visa would not get you imprisoned & deported from the UK. Thats nonsense.

eekyrich.bsky.social•8 days ago

So I’ve worked in uk immigration almost 20 years , I didn’t say she’d get imprisoned , I don’t agree with the treatment , I’m just saying there are red flags there that might have got her put back on a flight ( I regularly don’t agree with uk policies either )

paperghost.bsky.social•7 days ago

wait, so you've worked in uk immigration almost 20 years but for some reason think a spouse visiting their partner on a visitor visa is suspicious? because again, that's how you'd do it in the UK and pretty much anywhere else https://bsky.app/profile/paperghost.bsky.social/post/3lpw36la2pc2y

paperghost.bsky.social•7 days ago

and just to add to this: the UK itself has the multi-entry long term visitor visa for scenarios like the above where a spouse doesn't intend to move country, but does expect to visit regularly. "i'm visiting my spouse as much as i'm allowed to" is really not any sort of red flag

ridleydm.bsky.social•7 days ago

Part of the issue here may be that unlike many countries, the UK visa-free standard visitor status technically doesn't have a maximum frequency with which you're allowed to enter; it's at the discretion of the Border Force, based on whether they believe you that you're just visiting temporarily.

eekyrich.bsky.social•7 days ago

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/british-husband-taking-legal-action-south-korean-wife-locked-cell-refused-entry-uk-despite-home-office-permission-71830/

eekyrich.bsky.social•7 days ago

from experience I think border guards would look at spouses living in different countries and question if they’d want to live together and not just visit on a visitor visa. So question if they were coming on the right visa

eekyrich.bsky.social•7 days ago

Immigration rules are often drafted stupidly . Applied stupidly and often at the discretion of border officers to interpret

stevepeers.bsky.social•8 days ago

Sorry, there's no excuse for this

eekyrich.bsky.social•8 days ago

Not saying I agree , just saying they would be suspicious of this pattern from experience

stevepeers.bsky.social•8 days ago

Ridiculous

kate-ab.bsky.social•8 days ago

Perhaps her frequent travel raised a flag somewhere. But granting her the basic human rights to which she is entitled - a phone call, access to legal help - would have cleared that up in a matter of minutes. It is indefensible to treat her the way they did.

eekyrich.bsky.social•8 days ago

I agree the way she has been treated is appalling. The equivalent in the uk would be to put her on the next flight back. Also I’m sure distressing and she’d feel unfair but not anywhere close to being this badly treated

paperghost.bsky.social•8 days ago

they should not remotely be suspicious of this. before we married my wife came to the uk a number of times on visitor visas lasting up to 6 months at a time, often with many bags. how *else* do you visit your spouse (or would be spouse) in a different country if not on a visitor visa?

eekyrich.bsky.social•7 days ago

Our very business is literally arguing as you are that these rules are wrong or incorrectly applied in specific cases like this . I don’t disagree at all with you that a spouse shouldnt be able to visit on a visitor visa.

eekyrich.bsky.social•8 days ago

Logic and immigration policies rarely match

rgwarner.bsky.social•8 days ago

If that’s genuinely the case you turn her around and keep her at the airport which is a convenient place for the next flight back.
This treatment is inhumane. There is no excuse for it. She was not arrested; even if she were guilty of something this treatment is disgraceful.

eekyrich.bsky.social•8 days ago

Yes thats what the uk would do, stick her on the next flight back , not treat her so badly

ridleydm.bsky.social•7 days ago

Once when I was entering at Gatwick there was a guy in front of me who was literally being arrested, in advance of criminal charges and likely deportation (he had been caught shoplifting at the airport). He was having a bad day but the Royal Sussex Constabulary were being friendly with him.