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I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

People have been denied entry to the US because they said they were going to house sit. To the law that’s considered work for accommodation. Immigration has every right to deny you entry. Doesn’t matter if you guys agree with it or not.

Just never say you are doing chores or work in exchange for accommodation to any border cop in any country. So never say you do homestay or are housesitting. It will get you kicked out in many countries not just the US and Canada.

Also this article just proves to only cross the US border by airplane. It seems that every tourist that is in an ICE detention center crossed the border on land.

If she landed in Vancouver she would’ve been send home by plane. Also I bet she wouldn’t have been caught if she went trough immigration at the airport. Canadian immigration cops are a lot stricter at the borders than at the airport.

[–] Sk3rgi0@lemm.ee 11 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

TAKE ME WITH YOU!!!

Say does anybody in the EU want to host an american who's down on his luck?

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Is that Homer Simpsonn?

[–] harmsy@lemmy.world 45 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Speaking as an American, everyone who can needs to stay the fuck out until we can get some semblance of having our shit together.

[–] JasminIstMuede@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 hours ago

I used to take semi-regular business trips to the US, but I think from this point I will try to move everything online. Aside from it not being safe for me in other ways, all it would take is someone with a suspicion that my work on the trip is "illegal" to send me to prison :/

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 19 points 10 hours ago

My entire extended family is in America. They voted for Trump, we will never be visiting them again most likely. America is not safe.

[–] dellish@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

Doing payroll would be you performing a transaction in another country to people in that other country. At no point are you performing work where you receive remuneration in the country you're visiting - which is the point of working visas. Just because you did a bit of paperwork for your work back home doesn't mean you're violating tourist visa conditions.

[–] greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

So what I'm not understanding is, why are we putting people in jail for something that isn't causing harm? Unless, is there something about overstaying your visa that is harmful?

[–] sfu@lemm.ee 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Read the article. Canada (Canadian Border Officials) discovered that she was in the US with the wrong type of visa, so she was taken into custody. This would have happened in the past as well. The amount of time it takes I assume depends on the amount of people being investigated.

[–] triing@reddthat.com 3 points 4 hours ago

This is incorrect. Canada discovered she had an incorrect visa to enter Canada, as she had a tourist visa and they determined she'd need a work visa - so they sent her back to the USA, where she had come from, to reapply for her Canadian visa and then re-enter - but the USA border agents, on seeing her getting rejected, questioned her about her stay in the USA and determined she had broken the terms of the visa she was in the USA under, and thus detained her.

[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 17 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

To do maximum harm to Hispanics. We have totally legal Americans who are Hispanic leaving the country, they can afford to, and it's all because of this ethnic clensing, which is 100% what anti immigration hate is about its that Hispanics aren't white enough, and they want us all out now.

There's already talk from Trump's goverment that they are considering special IDs being required. You know. Exactly what the Nazi did gearing up for the holocaust. This is ethnic clensing, it's disregarding the rights of any Hispanic people and attacking them legally and illegally and daring anyone to stop them. So far, no one in particular cares.

[–] JasminIstMuede@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 hours ago

In this case, however, it is a white British national. It doesn't seem to fit into the racist rhetoric that normally comes out of this administration, instead being a broader targeting of foreigners in general. (This of course not being the only case of Europeans facing problems)

Racism is a huge factor, but it seems the end goal goes further towards complete isolationism.

[–] sfu@lemm.ee 1 points 6 hours ago

That just isn't true. It's not an ethnic cleansing. It is not 100% what anti immigration hate is about.

[–] GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

There’s already talk from Trump’s goverment that they are considering special IDs being required.

Fucking hell, I hadn't heard about this yet.

[–] Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

From what I am to understand it will be finally requiring the Real ID be implemented everywhere, and everyone needs to carry that, or a passport.

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Papers please.

[–] Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago

Yes, commissar

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