«You have no right to be here.» A teacher wanted to celebrate her birthday in New York. Instead, she was jailed in New Jersey before being deported. A lawyer warns that something similar could happen to almost anyone.
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.»
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.
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
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.
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.
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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.