“The New Natural”: While Trump is following mass deportations, tourists fall into detention of ice

A number of tourists from European countries have been detained by ICE in recent weeks when trying to enter the United States, and instead, the planned holidays are shifts into long periods of detention. Experts say their arrests are a clear escalation in enforcement with President Donald Trump’s suppression.

Last month, at least three tourists – two from Germany and one from the United Kingdom – were suspended in an American entry port and held them for at least two weeks. The last incident includes the 28 -year -old artist, Rebecca Burke, who was handcuffed and detained when trying to re -enter the country in Washington after Canadian border officials were directed, according to her father Paul Burke. in An appeal for help On Facebook, he said that his daughter was prevented from entering Canada because of an “incorrect visa” and refused to re -enter and classify it as “illegal foreign” by American customs and border protection.

“Although she is a tourist without a criminal record, she was handcuffed and transferred to a detention facility in Takoma and Washington,” she wrote on March 8, and she wrote.

As of March 11, Paul Burke participated in SeparateHer family was working to arrange a return journey to Montachiire in Wales, waiting for permission from migration and customs enforcement. Burke can not be accessed for comment.

The last accreditation chain on tourists is “somewhat unusual”, according to Stephen Yale Lahir, the lawyer of the Miller LLB migration group and a former professor at Cornell University. SALON told that, if CBP, if a problem is suspected of a tourist visa, will usually work on the heart of people if they enter across the border or send them on the next trip to their homeland.

“The unusual part of this is that they have been detained for a long time,” Yale Lahir said in an interview on the phone.

He added: “Our immigration detention system is often a black hole where individuals face difficulty in contacting lawyers or family friends to be able to help them, and there are no clear procedures other than filing a case in the Federal Court to try to release them – or even CBP decides that they need to be deported and then send them.”

Paul Burke told the Burke newspaper BBC. As part of what was supposed to be a four -month back journey throughout North America, Rebecca Burke traveled to Portland, Oregon, where she stayed with a host family, helped her in household chores in exchange for residency.

Then I went to Seattle with plans to travel to Vancouver, Canada, but officials stopped her on the border. Rebecca Berke BBC told that she spent about six hours on the border awaiting this, as officials discussed whether their arrangement was considered a work, and they finally decided that she had “violated” her visa.

The experiences of the German tourists reflected Bozer, both of whom were detained at the Utai Missa detention center in San Diego for weeks after his arrest in a southern port to enter in February.

Lucas Silaf, a 25 -year -old German citizen, was arrested at the port of San Ysidro on February 18. US officials have canceled a permit to enter the borders because of doubts that it intends to stay in the country for a longer period than the permitted. According to his fiancée, SIELAFF involved incorrectly answered a question about his permanent stay due to the language barrier. She told the immigration authorities, Las Vegas, where he will remain with his partner, when Shuud said that Germany, for each Guardian.

SIELAFF, his companion was released to San Diego Airport by ICE and returned to Germany on March 6.

Jessica Brunish, a 29 -year -old German tattoo, was detained at San Ysidro’s border point in late January after she tried to travel from Tijuana, Mexico, to Los Angeles with an American friend, friend, Nikita Lofing, CNN. Bruce was traveling with tattoo equipment. Lovefing speculated that immigration officials misunderstood BRösche’s statements that she was coming to the United States to clarify it-part of the six-year tattoo project that Lovefing returns in custom-made clothes that were entering the country to work.

Brushi, who said ABC 10NEWS San Diego She spent eight days in solitary confinement, remaining in the detention of ice for six weeks until Tuesday. Her mother confirmed to the German media on Tuesday that the artist had returned home.

Yale-loehr said, in general, it is not allowed to individuals traveling to the United States as tourists to work. In cases of Burke and Brösche, immigration authorities are likely to consider the arrangement of residence or the reason they entered a “kind of work” and decided that both of them violated their visas.

In the Silaf case, officials may assume that he had no “good, immigrant”-a foreign headquarters that he does not intend to abandon, according to the regulations governing the Association of Tourism and Visa-because of his incorrect answer, Jeff Joseph, the elected president of the American immigration lawyer.

Joseph said: “If they followed the matter a little further or asked him additional questions, they discovered that this was not what it means,” Joseph said. Instead of placing him in detention without a bond, immigration officials could also use “less restricted measures” such as allowing Sielaff to withdraw his request and pay a return price to Germany, or to leave voluntarily without a deportation order, for each Joseph.

ICE did not respond to the comment.

In a statement to ABC 10NEWS San Diego Earlier this month, a CBP spokesman said that if a foreign citizen refuses to accept in the United States from the book of travel to their home country, he will be handed over to the seizure of immigration and customs.

“All foreigners who violate American immigration law may be arrested and detention, and if there is a final removal, then removal from the United States, regardless of citizenship,” said an ice spokeswoman. statement.

Joseph said this belief is still illegal, unnecessary, is still legal. However, it represents a “really strict interpretation” of the policy directions used by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and CBP to make these decisions.

“It is incredibly heavy, and it is not the least restricted means,” he said. Officials “actually choose to detention people, put government resources behind their deportation and give them a deportation.”

He also said that this is the ordeal of the detained travelers from entering the country with visa exemptions instead of tourist visas. Because they are citizens among the two of the 43 countries that the United States has agreements based on “good relations and a good date for immigration compliance”, they are allowed to give up visa requirements and enter tourism in short periods without visiting the consulate’s approval and expression.

He added that despite allowing increased freedom of movement, qualified foreign citizens “give up” legal procedures and the right to appeal any procedure to remove against them with an official tourist visa.

In comparison, citizens of nations whose agreements do not have to apply for a tourist visa at their consulate and are subject to an intensive examination process to get it before traveling. These citizens never face a position in which they are being held on the border or airport if they are rejected.

He said that these arrests and removal are “definitely an escalation” caused by Trump’s presidency. The administration explained that it was “looking to deport everyone” regardless of where they are, and that “chaos is exercise.”

“I think they intentionally hold these people because creating this group hysteria, panic and media [for] Joseph said: “These cases will prevent people from coming, adding:” We see that in all their executive efforts, and they said they are publicly, it is the most effective way to deport people is to make them do it themselves. “

He warned that American citizens traveling to other countries, especially in Europe, with the treaty treaties that govern their visas, should expect to face the increasing scrutiny and similar treatment with the Trump administration’s publication here.

“This, 100 %, is the new natural,” Joseph said.