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.
Trying to find a solution? Let her fucking go home. It’s not difficult
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.
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!😂
Things have been like that way before Trump. You only see, sporadically, headlines like that, when Europeans are affected. Oh well
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.
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.
Tourism to American is just too risky right now.
I never thought the US could fall this fast, but Trump has them on a speed run, even when he inherited the hottest economy in history.
inherited the hottest economy in history.
IDK about that, chief… but Drumph is making sure we won’t even have one at all
“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
I don’t know why people are surprised. US customs has always been rude and shitty like this. I’m Indian by heritage (US citizen), and I still get looks going through customs at LAX and shitty bag checks.
It also certainly doesn’t help that she was going through San Ysidro. Worst port of entry imo. Customs has always been bad and this stupid administration has given them more fuel to be worse.
Tho I’d argue that this is the situation in customs all over the world lmao. I was in a similar situation in France. Not even tourism. Went out to eat as I had a long layover and had issues when I came back.
You’re lucky that they let you back out after you entered france without a Visa, even if it’s just for a snack.
I don’t not need a visa with a valid US Passport when the stay is under 90 days. They wouldn’t have let me out if I didn’t have a valid visa. Have you ever traveled before?
You may enter the Schengen area, including France, for up to 90 days for tourist and business purposes without a visa.
Immigration officers may also request you show sufficient funds for your intended stay and a return airline ticket.
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.
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
If the germans weren’t pussies they would kick the yank out of rammstein real quick.
But hey, they are quite tempted by the far right themselves.
Yes, we’re tempted by the right, too. But ousting them now would do no good.
But Ramstein (only one m, unlike the band) - keep the USians there for a time, let’s keep it as is for a time until it’s time to make some kind of deal.
They might need it one day, so we keep it as a collateral.
All long term international agreements and security guarantees died on the weekend so we need tangible things to force our former allies - now those we have deals with - to ensure they behave.
The correct thing to do would be our foreign office to issue an official travel warning for the US. (Which would have some impact on tourism to the US)
Let’s keep the big things for later, we WILL need them.
The very idea they didn’t just turn her around proves how evil these fucks can be.
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 role 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.
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
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
