Woman from Australia tries to visit her active duty US husband in Hawaii.
CBP thinks she has too many clothes so the give her a cavity search and lock her up for the night and send her home the next day.
According to Saroukos, the official checking their passports went from completely composed to just yelling at the top of his lungs while telling her mother to go stand at the back of the line.
“I automatically started crying because that was my first response,” she said.
Saroukos said they were then taken to a holding room, their bags and phones were searched, and they were asked a slew of questions — everything from her work as a former police officer to whether her tattoos were gang-related to her marriage to an American.
“When I said that I was married to somebody in the U.S. Army, the officers laughed at me. They thought it was quite comical. I don’t know whether they thought I was telling the truth or not,” she said.
Kind of hard to believe there isn’t, but CBP hasn’t released a statement according to AI:
US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has not publicly commented on the case of a military wife, Mrs. Saroukos, who was detained and deported during a visit to the US, according to News.com.au. Saroukos was detained, strip-searched, and held in a federal detention center before being deported back to Australia. She claimed she was detained based on assumptions made about her visa status and the amount of clothing she brought.
According to this guy, there has been a shift in policy.
“Before, if someone was denied admission at the airport and CBP (Customs and Border Protection) was going to put them on the next flight back to their home country, CBP used to release the person with instructions to return to the airport for the flight. These days, it is more common for CBP to have the person wait for that flight back home while detained in FDC,” immigration attorney Esther Yoo said.
Do you suppose all those people who were told to return for a later flight did so?
If yes, then how would that have helped if she had returned on a later flight? She still would have been sent back.
If no, then there were a lot more people illegally in the country. Of course, we know Biden had no problem with that.
All these people have is their hatred of Trump. It is the only thing holding together all the various groups that make up the democrat party in this party of identity politics. Their common hatred of Trump is the only thing keeping them from tearing each other apart. And even that is working completely.
Well, first off I’m sure Esther would not be happy being called a guy, second you forgot the rest of her statement.
Yoo added, “CBP has the last say as to whether someone is admitted or not. If an individual is seeking to enter on a tourist visa, CBP typically asks questions to figure out whether the person intends to immigrate here. An intent to immigrate would violate the conditions of the tourist visa. CBP looks at things like whether the person plans to work or get married to a U.S. citizen while they’re here as indicators of immigrant intent.”
I’m guessing that there’s a reason for this that hasn’t been made public yet. Since this is probably not typical procedure. You should probably wait to get the whole story, not just hers, before posting something like this.
