04-27-2025, 04:14 PM
DeusxMac wrote:
Again, "refused entry" is not "ICE dentetion", nor "deportation".
The pair were ultimately taken to a detention facility, with officers telling them they would have to leave the country the following day. They were able to reschedule their Tokyo flight to accommodate the directive, but first had to spend a harrowing night behind bars dressed in green prison uniforms.
“They made us do a full strip search,” one shared in the Reddit post. “It was really cold. We had to undress completely, including bra and underwear, and even had to squat and spread… I don’t want to describe it in too much detail, but it was humiliating and scary.”
That kinda sounds like “detention” to me (or worse, actually).
And, if they admitted they had actually planned to work while holding non-work-authorized visas...(td)
…and 5 kids independently “admitted” to nearly murdering a woman in Central Park, but had nothing to do with it. (Trump said they should have been executed, BTW).
But that never happens with CBP/ICE, right?
In this case,
…the biggest strike against the teens, they said, was that they mentioned during their interview that they occasionally did “small freelance jobs online.” While they claimed not to have any customers in the U.S., this led agents to believe they were attempting to work illegally during their time in the country.
:RollingEyesSmiley5:
Again, some skepticism, please. I don’t think this is overdramatization. Young female tourists with valid visas were taken into custody, interrogated, strip searched and thrown behind bars overnight before they were forced out of the country.
You should have a damn good reason for that. At least it used to be that way.