[chronos00]

The government should have just denied her entry if they believed she would violate her visa. I don’t understand the cause for detaining and putting her on the path to deportation.

[dharmab]

The administration has set an arrest quota for ICE, and ICE is far below where the administration wants them: https://www.npr.org/2025/03/01/nx-s1-5313059/immigration-ice...

> The most recent DHS data released this week shows that fewer than 600 people per day have been booked into ICE detention facilities across the country during the first three weeks of February — well below the pace of 1,200 to 1,500 arrests a day that administration officials have said they want.

[demuxed]

You can simply search her name to find out what’s actually going on instead of trusting a rage-bait article with no details. She was detained because this wasn’t her first time doing this. They are accusing her of working the last time she was in the U.S. under the VWP. As a result, she is likely being held for prosecution and will be barred from returning.

A quick search shows that in the past, she had posted on social media about being in the U.S. and working. It’s likely that her equipment raised a red flag, and during additional screening, they found those posts. It’s unfortunate for her, but ultimately, it was her own doing.

I know plenty of digital nomads who work in the U.S. without proper visas, but the difference is they keep a low profile. Visa laws aren’t unique to the U.S., and most countries take violations seriously. In fact, the U.S. isn’t even among the strictest.

There’s plenty to be outraged about in the world without making things up.

edit: I'm not going to justify this reddit post with any sources. It's obviously bait and 20 seconds of googling confirms it.

[casenmgreen]

Guilt does not justify how she was treated.

[anon373839]

This is all a deflection from the inhumane treatment she has received. But I can’t tell: are you deflecting because it’s an uncomfortable topic, or because you genuinely don’t care that human beings are being treated this way?

[BLKNSLVR]

I think the key is "private contractor".

The more detainees they have, and the longer they have them, the more they get paid.

[notimetorelax]

Wouldn’t it be in the interest of the detention facility to have detainees?

[madeofpalk]

Surely the detention facility wasn't responsible for sending her to a detention facility.

[dang]

You started a hellish flamewar with this, and perpetuated it badly downthread. That's seriously not ok and we ban accounts that do it, so please don't do it again.

It's not what this site is for, it destroys what it is for, and it evokes worse from others. Not cool.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

p.s. Also, you posted this twice. Please don't do that. (The other one was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43229712 and I've marked it as a dupe and merged the replies here now.)

[casenmgreen]

You don't make examples of people.

You treat them equally by the law.

You do not put people in solitary confinement for nine days - or twenty days - and without giving them any idea of what is happening, or notifying anyone where they are. This is cruel and unusual punishment.

[madeofpalk]

As an immigrant myself, I think it is cruel and inhumane to hold someone in detention indefinitely for unspecified accusations.

I think it is cruel to wish this upon others like you have done.

[zuppy]

if you think that holding someone in solitary confinement plus another month in jail is a valid response for her case, i think you are a bad person.

i’m sorry that german border control treated you badly, but that woman did nothing wrong to you.

[HackerThemAll]

The thing is, in Europe, precisely in European Union, people can travel and work freely with minimum formalities across all 28 EU countries and in Norway. It's easy for European citizen (and the person in question was from Germany which is an EU member) to forget that some countries are still that deeply not civilized.

Notwithstanding that, the person should just be deported immediately, but instead was detained for multiple weeks. Is it how it supposed to be dealing with visitors?

Is America great again already?

[alextingle]

I'm not sure I understand. What do you feel she did wrong?

[mrighele]

> Before I got my US passport, the German immigration staff would always treat me like shit, but with the US passport, I'd make sure to flaunt it so I'm not treated like yet another South Asian or Middle Eastern national.

Given the behavior of the current administration, I fear soon you will be back to be treated the old way even with US passport.

[marissachan]

Oh? My understanding so far was that she claims to have wanted to visit a friend in the USA, and is only accused of wanting to work. Can you please pinpoint to me where you got the information?

[sfcl33t]

This makes no sense. What law do you think she violated? And you're certainly painting Latin immigrants with a wide brush, there are a TON of us who came in illegally.

[idiotsecant]

I think in a perfect and just universe, the most fitting end for this post would be for it to be perfectly preserved, with your actual name, in perpetuity, in the worlds most popular and enduring history textbook. Imagine your children's grandchildren reading this sublime example of the casual banal brutality of our time, even among regular everyday people.

I sincerely hope for that future for you, and for all of us.

[kergonath]

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[fishmaster]

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