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Lofving said the episode is particularly absurd because Brösche’s original return flight to Berlin was on Feb. 15 — nearly two weeks ago.
“Why are American taxpayers spending thousands of dollars detaining tourists who are perfectly willing to leave,” she said.
The average cost of detaining a noncitizen adult is $164 per day, according to an ICE memo. Based on that average, a month of detention costs taxpayers $4,900.
Fucking clownshow of an administration
It's not a clownshow of course, things usually make sense when costing this much money, and of course they don't stop making sense when costing billions.
Making sense is not the same as helping goodwilling humanity.
And this is just a story that made the news out of sheer luck. Imagine how many more innocent people are locked up or worse.
And this is just a story that made the news out of sheer ~~luck~~ white privilege.
Not sheer luck, but because she's german. Germans haven't been mass migrating to America since the 60s at the latest and her detention is a change from the norm of us mostly only doing this to Latin Americans, Caribbean folks, Middle Easterners, and Africans
So Eastern Europe is not in the list? Just askin
I have no idea. We don't get enough of you for it to be a thing we really talk about
They don't talk about it because that's not the colour of immigrant they're worried about. Europeans make up 10% of all immigrants living in the states - the 3rd largest region group after those from the Americas (52%) and from Asia(31%), which you also didn't mention above.
Africans and middle eastern people are on your list of talked about immigrants because they are the right colour for the media to complain about despite making up less of the immigrant population in the states.
It's certainly notable because of that, but her Germanity isn't what led people to finally locate her - what the article outlined was a series of fortunate events.
Imagine how many American citizens are sitting in these camps and will be deported to some other country as Trump tries to eliminate due process and rob them of their day in court.
In Norwegian, live in Denmark and work for a Danish company, who also operates in the US. If my manager were to say, it ask, if I can go to the US office for work, I'll say no unless I get a really fucking good life insurance while I'm there. I don't want to go to the US for whatever reason.
I was refusing to travel to the US for any reason, even before this latest insanity. Would I trust the average human being with a gun? No.
Then why the fuck would I go to the US, where any person can buy a machinegun from Walmart? Where multiple times every year there are mass murders with guns, even in schools?
Okay, a mass murderer might have to illegally travel through some states with said machinegun (if I went to one of the more reasonable states where they aren't sold/allowed), but it's not like there are checkpoints between borders. I doubt a mass murderer would care if their gun was illegal in the state they planned to shoot up. Insanity. I'm not sure why any reasonable person would have travelled to the US before, but now...?!
Nordic countries > EU countries + Switzerland > Oceania > rest. Unfortunately, I have to admit it as a German.
The very idea they didn't just turn her around proves how evil these fucks can be.
CBP agents at the border accused Brösche of planning to violate the terms of the visa waiver program by intending to work as a tattoo artist during her trip to LA
Oh wow, a visiting artist might come do some art, fucking arrest her!
Jesus fucking christ the sociopathic cowards running these ABC agencies are dumber than shit
Add tourism to another industry Trump is helping out.
And she remains waiting for a deportation flight back to Berlin, when she already had her own return ticket? Which she would have used already by now and been gone??? God these people are so fucking stupid.
... another industry Trump is helping stamp out.
You'd have to be downright r-worded today to want to visit USA. Not this woman, I mean every one who comes after her.
As an American, I would recommend that folk reconsider travel to the US during the current administration. There are no longer checks and balances and it’s a very dangerous place at the moment. They’re removing all accountability for the border patrol and any immigration adjacent services so they can now do whatever they want. You’re at the complete mercy of the immigration service and they have full latitude to do whatever they want (legal or illegal) as the threat of repercussions have been removed. Be safe out there.
While this is true, people travel to Dubai and to Thailand and to Egypt (maybe not much recently) and, well, to Turkey.
Accountability and checks and balances in countries listed are such that the former two are technically absolute monarchies, so in that regard worse in skeleton than England after Magna Carta.
And these police that have you at their mercy are pm selected for being dumb, and anyone who wants the job just wants the power to harm people. Also they get like two days of training before being given a badge and a gun. When they abuse their power, even when they murder people, they have next to zero accountability.
Don't come here. Most of Central America is fantastically beautiful, welcoming, and safe. From what I understand Canada is as well (I'm not allowed in the country) but it's cold there much of the year.
My university sent out travel warning announcements about the US to all students and staff through email and matrix last week. Basically warning everyone, especially queer people, that you should expect complications or unjust treatment when traveling to the US. Kinda crazy that some german university takes this more serious than the US democrats take the end of their democracy.
Thanks. The US is the last place I wanted to go anyway, I don't want to support genociders.
Yeah. I have friends who are wanting to come to the US. "It couldn't happen to me, I'm white" they say. "I'm from Europe, I'll be safe" they say.
No.
It'll happen to them, and I'm scared because they refuse to listen.
Send them a link to this story.
I did.
I would go. But i'm not crossing the border legally lmao no fucking way.
What a horrible situation for the artists and all those detainees..Seems random people have been detained and held way too long, without legal reasons.
It's easy to make up a "legal reason". The actual problem is violently controlling people.
She didn't even do anything. They just took her aside because they thought she might use her time to work in the US. What the fuck is wrong with those people?
Give people power without accountability and this is what happens. Every single time. That's what the rule of law is about and that's why fascists hate it so much.
Commenting to emphasize this.
I bet she's attractive to the people who detained her. Why would they separate her from her friend.
I would not even fly to the USA right now, if I would get paid to do so. This country turned from one of the most attractive targets into a total shithole within weeks.
The US stopped being an attractive target to me the moment they fucked over Iraq.
to be fair, it was not an attractive target before either for a long tim, independently of the president. CBP and ICE were bad people for a very long time now, and that's not even the only problem
I've visited the US a couple of times for work.
I've been very careful with my wording when they've asked if I'm there to work.
Yes, I'm there for work. I'm employed in the EU, and I'm just there representing my employer at a fair or technical meeting. I'll be gone in a few days.
My colleague didn't have the same way with his words, but back then they'd just put you on the next plane back.
Yeah, I've been to the US for work-related training and it's the same. You must emphasize that you will not be working as an employee while you're there, or they assume that you are.
"business" used to be the right way to describe it . Then if asked you'd elaborate.
Sue Sue Sue. Take them all down and take them over the coals for every cent you can get.
I don't want to be mean, but I think it's a bit naive that a German citizen would be able to sue the US gov with the current checks and balances
What checks and balances?
Sueing everything and everybody is such an American thing to do.
She'll be glad to get the fuck out of that shithole and never look back.
It's the goddamn plot of Mexican Joker from South Park happening in real time