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British tourist detained by US authorities for 10 days over visa issue

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205 points n1b0m | 10 comments | 10 Mar 25 18:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.448s | source | bottom
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n1b0m ◴[10 Mar 25 22:11 UTC] No.43326695[source]▶
A similar story about Ice detaining a German tourist in California indefinitely. Jessica Brösche has spent more than a month in detention center after being denied entry at San Diego from Mexico.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/03/ice-german-t...

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1. DidYaWipe ◴[10 Mar 25 22:41 UTC] No.43326951[source]▶
The hypocrisy of everything under this administration boggles the mind. "You're here illegally! No, we won't let you leave!"
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2. ohgr ◴[10 Mar 25 22:48 UTC] No.43327017[source]▶
I think it’s malicious incompetence.

They probably rolled this out so fast and fired everyone who could manage it at the same time that it’s running at the stage of “how do we not starve these people” levels of chaos.

What a shit show though.

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3. bloomingeek ◴[10 Mar 25 22:58 UTC] No.43327101[source]▶
I have English relatives, my son-in-laws family, lovely people. They want to come visit again, but are concerned about the craziness of the current administration. When they visit, they spend plenty of money and have a great time. Does the GOP think tourists from other countries aren't paying attention?!?
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4. jajko ◴[10 Mar 25 23:01 UTC] No.43327134[source]▶
Wanted to visit US for 2 weeks next year or one after with kids. Forget that, will reevaluate that decision in 4 years but not holding my breath about future development. Shame...
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5. apercu ◴[10 Mar 25 23:01 UTC] No.43327136[source]▶
>"Does the GOP think"
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6. throw16180339 ◴[10 Mar 25 23:29 UTC] No.43327392[source]▶
ICE probably has quotas for detainment, so they're imprisoning people who would previously have been sent home.
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7. stevenwoo ◴[10 Mar 25 23:43 UTC] No.43327525[source]▶
It's part of the ICE grift. Ninety percent of ICE detention facilities are run by private companies. This has been going on through many administrations of all political stripes so sadly non partisan in a way, but there's no good excuse for this privatization for profit, it incentivizes making it harder for legal representation and reducing the number of judges, to increase the length of detention.
8. apercu ◴[11 Mar 25 00:27 UTC] No.43327843{3}[source]▶
uh oh, must have insulted "critical thinking doge fans".

While I acknowledge my tongue in cheek quote is not on brand for HN, and the GOP has demonstrated a long term, 40-year strategy of embracing ancient middle eastern value systems to co-op US government, that does not mean the current crop of leaders are deep thinkers.

9. potato3732842 ◴[11 Mar 25 01:35 UTC] No.43328262{3}[source]▶
Every day is a slow day these days so those guys who were hired to detain people are really scraping the bottom of the barrel.

It's like being pulled over for nothing because there's nobody else to pull over at 1am on a Tuesday.

10. DidYaWipe ◴[12 Mar 25 23:35 UTC] No.43348852{3}[source]▶
I hear Canada's nice...