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Teen Girls Arrested and Deported While Backpacking in Hawaii

BirdinHand said:
And...this is why tourism is screwed.

Who will want to come here when faced with the reality that they can wind up in handcuffs and detained? For simply vacationing?


Way to go MAGAs.
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Honestly I am leaving the country in June and feel nervous about when we come back. And my wife, myself, and my child are all citizens.
 
You should be fine.

Well, I wouldn't make any anti-trump or anti-GOP comments while you're waiting in line to be readmitted. (Just kidding. Sort of.)

Seriously, have a good time. Enjoy your time abroad.
 
L88 said:
These travelers were denied entry after attempting to enter the U.S. under false pretenses. One used a Visitor visa, the other the Visa Waiver Program," CBP Assistant Commissioner Hilton Beckham said in a statement. "Both claimed they were touring California but later admitted they intended to work – something strictly prohibited under U.S. immigration laws for these visas."


It's not unusual for arriving visitors, or even permanent U.S. residents or citizens, to have to attest to their accommodations at the border. Other countries similarly require proof of lodging, or at least an address, on entry paperwork at the border.

www.usatoday.com

German teens detained and deported in Hawaii

Two German teenagers were denied entry into the U.S. and deported from Honolulu after failing to show proof of lodging.
www.usatoday.com
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Thanks for this update.
 
Pyrite said:
Post #204
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Did you know that when you quote someone the quote itself is a link back to the original post? Adding "post #204" wastes your time and, when it compels a person to scroll up to see what you're talking about, wastes the time of other people as well.

Pyrite said:
A deliberate self-own?
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Meek or timid commentary. Unoffensive.
 
j brown's body said:
"Two teenage girls from Germany were detained, arrested, and deported at an airport in Hawaii after immigration officials said it was suspicious they had not booked a hotel room.

Backpackers Charlotte Pohl, 19, and Maria Lepere, 18, arrived in Honolulu from Auckland while undergoing a round-the-world trip. The duo planned to spend five weeks in Hawaii before moving onto California and Costa Rica for the next legs of their journey.

But despite having ESTA travel authorization, immigration officials accused them of attempting to enter the U.S. to work illegally, and they were placed in handcuffs and taken to a nearby detention center they later learned was a deportation facility.

Upon arrival, they were subjected to full-body scans, strip searches and forced to wear green prison jumpsuits, German outlet Ostee Zeitung reports. They were then placed in a holding facility with serious criminals, including an alleged murderer who had been locked up for 18 years, and were forced to spend the night in a freezing cold double cell.

...After a sleepless night in the freezing cell, the girls were woken early and escorted back to the airport in handcuffs. Upon arrival, they were forced to board a Hawaiian Airlines flight to Tokyo and were told they would receive their passports back once they arrived in Japan.

Included in their travel documents were interrogation transcripts signed by the girls, which “contained sentences we didn’t actually say,” said Charlotte after the ordeal. “They twisted it to make it seem as if we admitted that we wanted to work illegally in the US.”

Link

The Golden Age.
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You have to ask the question we ask about Russia.

Why would anyone in their right minds travel to America?
 
BirdinHand said:
I'd say that the actions of this administration are impacting tourism so dramatically already that SOS Rubio is trying to spin things in a positive light.

Granted, this is just the beginning of the decline of the tourism industry and incidents such as this with these two young ladies will cause others to simply skip the US all together.
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Foreigner:

"I went to America with my family to visit Disneyland, but all I got was this tee-shirt and a free trip to an El Salvadorian Maximum Prison".
 
j brown's body said:
"Two teenage girls from Germany were detained, arrested, and deported at an airport in Hawaii after immigration officials said it was suspicious they had not booked a hotel room.

Backpackers Charlotte Pohl, 19, and Maria Lepere, 18, arrived in Honolulu from Auckland while undergoing a round-the-world trip. The duo planned to spend five weeks in Hawaii before moving onto California and Costa Rica for the next legs of their journey.

But despite having ESTA travel authorization, immigration officials accused them of attempting to enter the U.S. to work illegally, and they were placed in handcuffs and taken to a nearby detention center they later learned was a deportation facility.

Upon arrival, they were subjected to full-body scans, strip searches and forced to wear green prison jumpsuits, German outlet Ostee Zeitung reports. They were then placed in a holding facility with serious criminals, including an alleged murderer who had been locked up for 18 years, and were forced to spend the night in a freezing cold double cell.

...After a sleepless night in the freezing cell, the girls were woken early and escorted back to the airport in handcuffs. Upon arrival, they were forced to board a Hawaiian Airlines flight to Tokyo and were told they would receive their passports back once they arrived in Japan.

Included in their travel documents were interrogation transcripts signed by the girls, which “contained sentences we didn’t actually say,” said Charlotte after the ordeal. “They twisted it to make it seem as if we admitted that we wanted to work illegally in the US.”

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The Golden Age.
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It could totally be accurate but I am ALWAYS suspicious when I read things like, "...After a sleepless night in the freezing cell, the girls were woken early"


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Grizzly Adams said:
What is the quota CBP must make each month for admission refusals?
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Are you referring to this:

"U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have been directed by Trump officials to aggressively ramp up the number of people they arrest, from a few hundred per day to at least 1,200 to 1,500, because the president has been disappointed with the results of his mass deportation campaign so far, according to four people with knowledge of the briefings."

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j brown's body said:
The government lying about what their prisoners say is looking like a pattern:

popular.info

U.S. citizen wrongly detained by Border Patrol says government account is false

Jose Hermosillo was held in a detention facility for undocumented immigrants for 10 days.
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So you believe the government is rounding up people with mental disabilities and holding them in prison?

This guy's story maybe true or maybe not. The border patrol has a different story.

The story itself is fairly unbiased. How can you draw a conclusion as to what actually happened.?

And what does this have to do with a couple of teenagers attempting to enter illegally and admitted it?
 
j brown's body said:
Are you referring to this:

"U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have been directed by Trump officials to aggressively ramp up the number of people they arrest, from a few hundred per day to at least 1,200 to 1,500, because the president has been disappointed with the results of his mass deportation campaign so far, according to four people with knowledge of the briefings."

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Well, since CBP isn't ICE... no.
 
Just don't visit the US until we escape the fascist bullshit / Russian vassal state phase. Not worth it.
 
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