🛬 U.S. travel

 🛬 Yes, ICE employees are taking visitors to for-profit detainment facilities. They are treating them inhumanely, with strip searches, limited food, lights on 24/7, by falsely incarcerating them. Normally, when a tourist is inadmissible to a country, they offer to let them rescind their entry. Not so in this day and age. They are rounded up and sent to jail. In the jails, there are fights, anger, and chaos.

Canada updated its travel advisory for the US, telling travellers to "expect scrutiny at ports of entry, including of electronic devices," adding, "If you are denied entry, you could be detained while awaiting deportation.": travel.gc.ca/destinations...

1. Assistant professor on an H-1B visa from 🇱🇧 Lebanon

2. A Green Card holder from 🇩🇪 Germany living in New Hampshire

3. Two tourists from 🇩🇪 Germany

4. Business consultant from 🇨🇦 Canada, Jasmine Mooney (home after 2 weeks)

5. Student from 🇸🇾 Syria with Green Card

6. Tourist from 🇩🇪 Germany on B2 visa, detained, degraded and deported

7. Tourist from 🇬🇧 UK, Becky Burke cartoonist

8. Fulbright student from 🇮🇳 India

9.  🇨🇦 Cree composer, Andrew Balfour, from Canada, denied entry to perform at Carnegie Hall.

10. 🇩🇪 Germany has travel warnings for LGBTQ+ travelers going to the U.S. 

11. 🇨🇦 A pair of musicians from N.S. were detained. A touring folk duo, Cassie and Maggie MacDonald, with friends and family in U.S., stopped by arrogant state troopers. Worried about them pushing fentanyl. 

12. 🇫🇷 French researcher detained March 9th. 

13.  🇬🇧 Member of UK band detained. 

14. 🇺🇸 US Hawaiian with green Card detained March 22.

15. 🇷🇺 Russian Scientist detained in the US, Visa revoked, will be sent back to Russia. She's spoken out against the war on Ukraine.

16. 🇺🇸U.S. border agents handcuffed Tyler, a U.S. citizen, and chained her to a bench, while her fiancé, Lucas Sielaff, was accused of violating the rules of his 90-day U.S. tourist permit. He spent 16 days locked up before flying home.

17. 🇬🇹 Guatemalan immigrant named Sarahi who accidentally drove the wrong way across the Ambassador Bridge trying to go to Costco held for 5 days in a windowless office with her daughters, two U.S. citizens aged one and five.

18. 🇦🇺 Australian MMA legend Renato Subotic detained in the U.S.

19. 🇹🇷 Tufts student from Turkey, locked up, no asthma meds, hijab ripped off.

20. 🇩🇪 Lukas Seilaff, German, 25, detained 2 weeks.

#20. Lukas Seilaff, German, 25

15. Russian Scientist detained

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 #6. German Tourists Detained for Weeks, Then Deported From U.S.

 # 7. Dad of detained US tourist urges care on visa requirements (UK citizen Becky Burke)

#4 And a Canadian Woman: Jasmine Mooney.

They were in a room with 30 women, no blankets, little food, and much discomfort. Talk about an undeveloped country.

Her mother is beside herself. I cannot link to the Facebook post, but they are hoping to get her home. Her story is on YouTube, put in chains, whisked away to Arizona. The mother says they've booked a flight home for her, and while ICE doesn't give permission until the last moment, they are hopeful.

#9. Another Canadian refused entry into the U.S. Cree Composer. This time, they put him on a flight back to Toronto, at least. The Jay Treaty stipulates that First Nations can travel freely between Canada and the U.S. Andrew Balfour is both a musician and 

#2. A traveler with a green card is detained, and hospitalized.

Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair." 

She said Schmidt told her immigration agents pressured him to give up his green card. She said he was placed on a mat in a bright room with other people at the airport, with little food or water, suffered sleep deprivation, and was denied access to his medication for anxiety and depression.

#1. And a doctor, detained on her way home from Lebanon, holding an H-1B VISA. She's been working in the U.S. for six years.