Jugendliche Mädchen wurden verhaftet und abgeschoben, während sie in Hawaii Rucksackpackungen haben

This is a really crazy story. Worth a read. Heard about it yesterday from a relative and could not believe my ears. Insane.

They were detained and jailed after being accused of intending to work illegally in the U.S. with no evidence. There was some wording about “potential intention to work”. Which is Orwellian. “Potential Intention?”

Two German girls, age 19 and 18:
> Two teenage girls from Germany were detained, arrested, and deported at an airport in Hawaii after immigration officials said it was suspicious they had not booked a hotel room.

The officers of border patrol should not have final say for what is and isn’t illegal. Regardless of what the law currently says, when you hire random strangers to do the job of protecting and keeping the nation safe, you will have people who exercise their power in unhealthy and dangerous ways that don’t keep people safe, and in-fact expose the flaws of our social support system. The fact that there were no officers named shows me that this was a power play move and not anything of any sort of national security. Disgusting and truly shameful behavior. This shit right here actually makes me a little bit sick to be American anymore.

”Two teenage girls from Germany were detained, arrested, and deported at an airport in Hawaii after immigration officials said it was suspicious they had not booked a hotel room.

Backpackers Charlotte Pohl, 19, and Maria Lepere, 18, arrived in Honolulu from Auckland while undergoing a around-the-world trip. The duo planned to spend five weeks in Hawaii before moving onto California and Costa Rica for the next legs of their journey.

But despite having ESTA travel authorization, immigration officials accused them of attempting to enter the U.S. to work illegally, and they were placed in handcuffs and takent to a nearby detention center they later learned was a deportation facility.

Upon arrival, they were subjected to full-body scans, strip searches and forced to wear green prison jumpsuits, German outlet Ostee Zeitung reports. They were then placed in a holding facility with serious criminals, including an alleged murderer who had been locked up for 18 years, and were forced to spend the night in a freezing cold double cell.

After a sleepless night in the freezing cell, the girls were woken early and escorted back to the airport in handcuffs. Upon arrival, they were forced to board a Hawaiian Airlines flight to Tokyo and were told they would receive their passports back once they arrived in Japan.

Included in their travel documents were interrogation transcripts signed by the girls, which “contained sentences we didn’t actually say,” said Charlotte after the ordeal. “They twisted it to make it seem as if we admitted that we wanted to work illegally in the US.”

If this kind of thing doesn’t kill the tourism industry here in the US, then nothing will.

Stories like this are going to decimate tourism to the United States. Golly, young people without plans. At least they’re not in El Salvador. /s

And this happened to white teenager women, can you imagine if you’re black or brown how you are going to be treated?

Kiss our tourism industry good bye, along with our Constitution 

If this regime was around when I backpacked around the world in my 20s, I would have never been allowed to enter a country. The whole thrill of backpacking when you’re young is figuring it out when you get there. It’s about the adventure and not the schedule. I feel badly for these girls having their trip ruined by CBP/ICE.

Next time you see an article about how Canadians are boycotting trips to the US, its just as much about it being a safety issue as a „were pissed off at you“ issue now.

First they came for the Canadians and I didn’t say anything because I was kinda clueless.

Then they went for the Germans and I was like „Whoa! Waitaminute! The Germans tho?!“

Then they didn’t get anyone else because everyone figured out that the US has lost its fucking mind and its not safe for anyone to travel there, especially your teenage daughters!

And then that was the end of American tourism basically.

I’d admit its not super poetic.

They just really don’t want tourists anymore.

Marco Rubio: “It is a privilege to visit the United States”

Hm. I don’t think that word means what you think it means