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.
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.
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.
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
Nope, they aren’t brown enough to be on the list.
I have no idea. We don’t get enough of you for it to be a thing we really talk about
They don’t talk about it because that’s not the colour of immigrant they’re worried about. Europeans make up 10% of all immigrants living in the states - the 3rd largest region group after those from the Americas (52%) and from Asia(31%), which you also didn’t mention above.
Africans and middle eastern people are on your list of talked about immigrants because they are the right colour for the media to complain about despite making up less of the immigrant population in the states.
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.
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
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.
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.
Add tourism to another industry Trump is helping out.
And she remains waiting for a deportation flight back to Berlin, when she already had her own return ticket? Which she would have used already by now and been gone??? God these people are so fucking stupid.
I have to admit: I just crossed the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone Park off my bucket list whilst reading this story.
The police firearm homicides always felt a bit iffy but this clinches it. Definitely not going to try to visit that country. It’s not a risk I’m willing to run.
I just commented this to some other person here. I’ll paste my answer; I hope that’s okay.
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.
Thanks very much, friend. That looks amazing. I just checked and Mexico also has some national parks with North American wildlife and even volcanoes! This one looks great.
Maybe the US government will collapse in your lifetime and it will be super cheap to visit then!
Visiting a failed state just sounds even riskier.
As far as I can tell the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone are both located in Republican stronghold areas so would possibly still be acting like this to tourists, but it would be harder for my country’s embassy to rescue me. Solitary confinement can cause long-term mental health damage.
Thanks for trying to cheer me up, though! I was genuinely a bit disappointed (though, very glad I read this article) but it’s a reminder to think outside the box and look for other of nature’s wonders that maybe aren’t talked about so much and are located in places that are safer to visit.
… another industry Trump is helping stamp out.
CBP agents at the border accused Brösche of planning to violate the terms of the visa waiver program by intending to work as a tattoo artist during her trip to LA
Oh wow, a visiting artist might come do some art, fucking arrest her!
Jesus fucking christ the sociopathic cowards running these ABC agencies are dumber than shit
Hey, on the bright side she has an opportunity to make a sone money. Either through a potential lawsuit (doubt.) or the smarter option: oil on canvas artwork of her experience in the detention center. Her story is global now and the notoriety may boost the sale price.
You’d have to be downright r-worded today to want to visit USA. Not this woman, I mean every one who comes after her.
As an American, I would recommend that folk reconsider travel to the US during the current administration. There are no longer checks and balances and it’s a very dangerous place at the moment. They’re removing all accountability for the border patrol and any immigration adjacent services so they can now do whatever they want. You’re at the complete mercy of the immigration service and they have full latitude to do whatever they want (legal or illegal) as the threat of repercussions have been removed. Be safe out there.
My university sent out travel warning announcements about the US to all students and staff through email and matrix last week. Basically warning everyone, especially queer people, that you should expect complications or unjust treatment when traveling to the US. Kinda crazy that some german university takes this more serious than the US democrats take the end of their democracy.
And these police that have you at their mercy are pm selected for being dumb, and anyone who wants the job just wants the power to harm people. Also they get like two days of training before being given a badge and a gun. When they abuse their power, even when they murder people, they have next to zero accountability.
Don’t come here. Most of Central America is fantastically beautiful, welcoming, and safe. From what I understand Canada is as well (I’m not allowed in the country) but it’s cold there much of the year.
While this is true, people travel to Dubai and to Thailand and to Egypt (maybe not much recently) and, well, to Turkey.
Accountability and checks and balances in countries listed are such that the former two are technically absolute monarchies, so in that regard worse in skeleton than England after Magna Carta.
One difference is that Egypt and Turkey have a lot of tourism, so they tend to be quite tolerant towards tourists. You don’t want to scare off potential customers. The US seems to forget that.
“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
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.
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
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🎵
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.
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!😂
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
The US stopped being an attractive target to me the moment they fucked over Iraq.
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.
That’s still supposed to be the thing. Denied entry, the next flight back or walk back across the land border.
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.
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.
Sue Sue Sue. Take them all down and take them over the coals for every cent you can get.
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.
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.
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You’re lucky that they let you back out after you entered france without a Visa, even if it’s just for a snack.
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By the time Trump is done we’re going to need a specific Visa just to go to Canada…
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