Becky Burke's parents say her legs, waist and hands were secured by US immigration officers.

Summary

Welsh tourist Becky Burke was detained for 19 days in a US immigration facility and transported in chains like “Hannibal Lecter” after alleged visa violations.

Burke had been backpacking and staying with host families in exchange for help around the house, which authorities suspected breached her tourist visa conditions.

Deported on March 18, she described the ordeal as traumatizing. Her parents criticized the harsh treatment and are considering addressing the issue politically.

  • M0oP0o@mander.xyzEnglish
    8·
    13 days ago

    Why are we not seeing more travel advisories? I know of a few but if this was any other nation you would have advisories from almost everyone by now.

        • YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          12 days ago

          Jesus this is all there is for gender/sex/race/immigrant/etc discrimination, if you can even say it’s about that

          The link about “travel and your identity” idr what it says exactly but it isn’t anything specific to US and certainly not much help in the current scenario

        • ohshit604@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          11·
          13 days ago

          Doesn’t help that we have 3 identical political parties and then 1 party willing to join the trump train.

          As much as I hate voting conservative this election I’m quite fed up with the liberals that represent us, it’s shameful watching our political leaders.

    • Polderviking@feddit.nlEnglish
      1·
      12 days ago

      There’s some inertia that needs to be overcome, but it’s coming. UK and Germany already posted (rather tame…) advisories.