Brösche, 26, never made it to LA. She’s been in federal immigration custody since Jan. 25 — the day they tried to cross into the United States through the San Ysidro Port of Entry.
Brösche had her German passport, confirmation of her visa waiver to enter the country, along with a copy of her return ticket back to Berlin, Lofving said. A U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent pulled Brösche aside for a secondary inspection.
She didn’t know it then, but it would be 25 days before Lofving would see her friend again. Brösche would spend that time in federal detention, where she remains, waiting for a deportation flight back to Berlin.
People come to the US because their home country is worse. Why the fuck would you come here (even just to visit) if you’re from a better country (such as an EU country). 🤦♂️
I mean, I might hate the US, but visiting The Grand Canyon still sounds nice. I sure as fuck wouldn’t be visiting your country because I think things are better over there.
China, India, Peru, and Mexico, to name a few, have deeper and larger canyons. A similar one to the Grand Canyon is the Copper Canyon. It is located in Chihuahua, Mexico. It is four times larger and almost twice as deep as the Grand Canyon. It has many tourists’ activities, and you can even add other destinations to your journey if you visit it by train. It is a nice option while we all wait for the end of the almost-fascist/probably-fascist situation in the U.S.
There are conferences and clients abroad.
do you know what a tourist is?
Neither does the U.S. Customs and CBP apparently.
The U.S. has some cool shit to see as a tourist - even aside from the obvious stuff (example: I really, really wanted to check out Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo Texas. It’s literally just a bunch of Cadillacs half-buried and absolutely crusted in spray paint).
But yeah, right now even the legit draws for tourism aren’t worth it. And there’s a scarily good chance it never will be again.
It’s the goddamn plot of Mexican Joker from South Park happening in real time
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.
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.
Nordic countries > EU countries + Switzerland > Oceania > rest. Unfortunately, I have to admit it as a German.
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Just a point of order, we’re not selling machineguns in Wal Mart yet. I have no hope of stopping such a future though. The court case against the machinegun ban is already moving to the Supreme Court.
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You do indeed need to pass the orange test. They hold a Florida Orange up and if you aren’t at least that shade of orange you have to abide by the law.
And this is just a story that made the news out of sheer
luckwhite privilege.smh.
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
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.
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
Nope, they aren’t brown enough to be on the list.
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.
Trying to find a solution? Let her fucking go home. It’s not difficult
Her scheduled flight home was Feb 15. They could literally have escorted her to the airport at that point and have been done with the case.
This is ridiculous.
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.
“business” used to be the right way to describe it . Then if asked you’d elaborate.
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.
Don’t travel to the US. As a foreigner it’s literally like traveling into an authoritarian regime. When filing for the visa they ask for all your socials, opinions, etc. Some immigration officers will go through your phone on arrival. It’s grim.
Not one precious white person!!! \s
Everyone knows it’s news and injustice if it happens to be a white person, otherwise it’s normal border control measures to protect America and it’s freedoms.
I’d wager this is all because of some innocent comment she made about her tattoos and the agent jumped on it. Just like a cop, the agent was probably being friendly to get her to talk and got her to admit she did some tattoo work the last time she was there. Remember everyone only answer direct and relevant questions, anything else they ask is just trying to find a reason to screw you over!
Once the German embassy is getting involved though, she should have been released immediately but it’s clear this administration likes the power trip too!
Even the garbage about not letting her go back to Mexico is crazy, I know they do that all the time without proof of residency. This agent definitely had it out for her!
Even a few years ago, maybe 2017, I was at JFK airport and lady somehow was getting off a plane from London and couldn’t find her passport, the agents got worked up but released her after some kind of back and forth where she had to appear with her passport in a couple of days (or something). Somehow the passport was in her luggage that had been checked in, IDK.
The German embassy is useless. I’m telling you this as a German citizen. I’ve heard horrible stories of people being let down even in conflict zones. The German embassy didn’t even reply to many people asking for help to leave Lebanon once Israel invaded. There have been cases of German citizens with Arab names being held in immigration facilities in Israel and the German embassy hasn’t done shit.
The very idea they didn’t just turn her around proves how evil these fucks can be.
Maybe they just forgot
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.
If they weren’t detained and roaming around through the country instead, they’d even spend money.
Make it make sense.God forbid she create some art while she’s here. The world would stop.
“online sleuths tracked Brösche to the Otay Mesa Detention Center, which is a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility run by the private contractor Core Civic.”
Oh cool we’ve got private contractors running ICE detention facilities
And her indefinite hold wouldn’t have anything to do with the fact that they get paid every single day she is there
Yeah, core civic is the largest private prison company in the U.S., headquartered in Nashville. I took a contract doing IT work there a few years back. I quit very quickly. I made it all of 2 days before I learned doctors with suspended licenses are allowed to keep practicing in prison systems.
What the fuuuuck
You know, I’m actually not surprised. I wish I was, but I’m not.
Wtf
Want to cut costs on medical? Hire someone not legally allowed to practice medicine elsewhere. U.S. loopholes can get pretty horrendous.
I am honestly completely revolted
🎵nazis🎵
I learned doctors with suspended licenses are allowed to keep practicing in prison systems.
fffffuuuuck.
especially, when you consider how fucking hard it is to pull the licenses on incompetent, abusive and shady docs. fucking hells
Npr was talking about this yesterday on the radio, it’s apparently very common.
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.
Things have been like that way before Trump. You only see, sporadically, headlines like that, when Europeans are affected. Oh well
I don’t think this is concerning because an European is affected. It is concerning because is happening to a tourist that clearly was going to return home, that the conditions in these centers are terrible for everyone there, and that at least some of these detention centers are run by for-profit private companies. It is no secret that the immigration system in the US is broken and is pretty much inhumane. It goes beyond who is in the White House, and speaks volumes on how broken the American society is.
Brown or Asian people happening to them weekly: 😴 🙄
One white person happening to them: 🫨 😡
As the saying goes, Fascism is colonialism turned inwards. We’ve been doing this for decades now, it’s only scary because it’s happening to milquetoast white people.
Maybe this gets people to wake up a little more about the situation we’re in.
If every year we ripped the richest person on earth into pieces like a piñata and spread their wealth around, do you think they would still pursue enough excess money to break our global economy?
I don’t know but I’m sure as hell willing to try!😂
