Her period had started, and she was bleeding heavily. But she received only a single sanitary pad after repeated requests – after bloodstains had already spread across her clothing. There were no painkillers available. There, covered in blood on a rudimentary toilet, she cried for the second time. After that, she was given prison clothing.
«There are three tables on the left side and telephones on the right side. Behind them are the beds, one next to the other. There were two toilets, two sinks and two showers. But everything was open, there was no privacy.»
She had to put her blood-soaked clothes back on and was once again chained by her hands, feet and waist. At the airport, several security officers – one carrying a weapon – escorted her to her plane. She only got her passport and smartphone back once she was in the air.
Cruelty is the point.
For your own safety, never travel to the United States.
I wonder what would happen if the rest of the world started treating US tourists the same way…
If they’re millionaires or worse (billionaires) they should absolutely be told to go back home and fix the mess they’ve made.
Yeah require an income verification in order to get a visa and then tax the shit out of them to travel abroad.
I’m guessing you’re from Europe. American tourists that go to Europe generally are of significantly higher income than the rest of us. Please, do treat them like shit. Also, if you can make the whole process costly for them, that would be greatly appreciated.
If our governments had any balls, this would be incredible. Might be an issue for US refugees tho
Sadly it could just be a race to the bottom to see who can treat the other side the worst.
We would also loose the moral superiority on the issue.
“welcome to France” shoots them multiple times “et ne reviens pas”
As an American though I’d totally understand
This is a non-story. She was doing consulting work in the US without getting the required work permit. She lied about it, and was also given the choice of returning back to Switzerland (which she declined) and that’s how she ended up in detention.
Because Lara not only works at a school in Switzerland, but also gives online language courses and counts Americans among her customers, the border officials were convinced that she wanted to work during her stay in the U.S.
The fact that Lara was carrying souvenirs, such as German books and Swiss chocolate, had her laptop and had arranged to meet some of her online students for coffee in New York reinforced the border officials’ suspicions. When Lara insisted that she did not want to work during her vacation, the officials always responded with the same statement: «You’re lying.»
«Then they threatened me: Either I officially say in the interrogation that I came to New York to work, or they will send me to prison,» Lara says, adding that the situation intimidated her. «But I still said: That’s not right. If you treat me like this, I will need a lawyer, and I must be given the opportunity to contact the Swiss Embassy. Their response was: You have no right to be here. You are not an American citizen.»
If you have conflicting sources please cite them
It’s now a pervasive idea in America that non-citizens have no rights. Not just the rights that US citizens are entitled to, basic UN-chartered human rights are being deprived. Either you are an American*, or you are some sort of head of cattle that can be done with as they please.
*terms and conditions apply
Your quoted text clearly states she was meeting clients. That’s not allowed on a tourist visa (same rule applies in Switzerland). She was then told she could not enter the country and had to turn around – she refused and was put in detention (same rule applies to anyone visiting Switzerland). Other reports note that she was doing her online courses from NYC.
It clearly states she was meeting people who happened to be clients online for coffee. And nothing about consulting, so clearly you are going off of other sources
As noted in the article, she had been making a multitude of trips to NYC to meet with her clients all while on a tourist visa. That is a textbook visa violation and the same treatment would have happened under Biden.
No, as noted in the article she took multiple trips to US to vacation and meet friends, this occasion being for her birthday, and that while here she met with some students who she happened to teach online. You’ve seemingly decided to reinterpret this all into some other sequence of events while still claiming the article as your source
DrunkEngineer may well be living up to their name right now.
The courts have consistently ruled that the Due Process Clause and the presumption of innocence apply to all individuals within the United States, including non-citizens, whether they are legal residents, undocumented immigrants, or in the country on visas.
Even if she was, this is absolutely unacceptable treatment of a human being. Her actually doing that would not warrant such treatment, even if she was actually convicted (she wasn’t even charged). There is no due process anymore in America, which we should never consider normal and always consider newsworthy.
Is there a link to another source? This one doesn’t give that information.
