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

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205 points n1b0m | 1 comments | 10 Mar 25 18:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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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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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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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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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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1. potato3732842 ◴[11 Mar 25 01:35 UTC] No.43328262[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.