04-27-2025, 06:56 PM
pdq wrote:
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).
dk62 wrote:
Deportation and refusal of entry are logistically the same when you arrive by plane. But detention is not warranted.
Be realistic. If CBP has anyone for whom entry is not going to be granted (pick any legitimate reason you want), they will send them back either to the country they arrived from, or their country of citizenship.
Flights to those countries are commercial flights. Commercial flights are not "immediate and on demand" for CBP, nor are available seats guaranteed on the soonest flight*. The earliest available flight with room may vary well be on another day. What can CBP do with those people in the meantime? They must "hold" them in some controlled location.
The "quality" of such locations is a legitimate issue, but that they must exist is obvious.
*"Sorry, pdq, you've been bumped off your reserved flight today so we can send bank robber Joe back to his country."
And, if they admitted they had actually planned to work while holding non-work-authorized visas...(td)
pdq wrote: …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).
That's a red herring. We could then introduce every false confession and every false denial ever.
pdq wrote: But that never happens with CVP/ICE, right?
There's a lot that doesn't make sense in that story, but, "that's another story".
pdq wrote: BIn 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.
Where is this quote from? I don't see it in the Newsweek article.