Australian children's author Mem Fox detained by US border control: 'I sobbed..'
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Re: Australian children's author Mem Fox detained by US border control: 'I sobbed..'
#2Its only a matter of time before this craziness begins to have negative effects on economy of the united states.
Re: Australian children's author Mem Fox detained by US border control: 'I sobbed..'
#3There are some previous discussions:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13729770 (15 comments)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13730736 (4 comments)
Re: Australian children's author Mem Fox detained by US border control: 'I sobbed..'
#4What possible reason could they come up with to do this? Do we have the same problem in Border Control that we do in our Police, bullies just bullying because they can?
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#5What possible reason could they come up with to do this? Do we have the same problem in Border Control that we do in our Police, bullies just bullying because they can?
Yes, we do. Border Patrol is even less accountable.
They've decided they have authority over 2/3 of the population on some absurd argument that anything within a hundred miles of a border and/or the ocean is under their jurisdiction. https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone
They can shoot and kill a kid in another country and not be sued or extradited: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/immigration/2017/02/21/cross-...
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#6Is that really all the fault of Trump? Not being from the US, my impression was that traveling to the US has been an ordeal for quite a while now (maybe since 9/11)? There were also famous cases of people dying, wasn't there a taser incident and one (mentally disabled?) person being choked to death? There was even a Tom Hanks movie about a guy stuck at an airport indefinitely. All before Trump.
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#7Is that really all the fault of Trump? Not being from the US, my impression was that traveling to the US has been an ordeal for quite a while now (maybe since 9/11)? There were also famous cases of people dying, wasn't there a taser incident and one (mentally disabled?) person being choked to death? There was even a Tom Hanks movie about a guy stuck at an airport indefinitely. All before Trump.
The Tom Hanks movie was set in Paris, and based on an actual case there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehran_Karimi_Nasseri
Re: Australian children's author Mem Fox detained by US border control: 'I sobbed..'
#8Is that really all the fault of Trump? Not being from the US, my impression was that traveling to the US has been an ordeal for quite a while now (maybe since 9/11)? There were also famous cases of people dying, wasn't there a taser incident and one (mentally disabled?) person being choked to death? There was even a Tom Hanks movie about a guy stuck at an airport indefinitely. All before Trump.
The Tom Hanks movie was set in Paris, and based on an actual case there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehran_Karimi_Nasseri
My reading is that the movie was set at JFK in New York, based on real life events which took place at Charles de Gaulle in Paris.
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#9What possible reason could they come up with to do this? Do we have the same problem in Border Control that we do in our Police, bullies just bullying because they can?
Yes, we do. Border Patrol is even less accountable. They've decided they have authority over 2/3 of the population on some absurd argument that anything within a hundred miles of a border and/or the ocean is under their jurisdiction. https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone They can shoot and kill a kid in another country and not be sued or extradited: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/immigration/20…
I'll have to follow that case.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Tom Hanks movie was set in Paris, and based on an actual case there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehran_Karimi_Nasseri
My reading is that the movie was set at JFK in New York, based on real life events which took place at Charles de Gaulle in Paris.
The movie was set at JFK, but it could not have happened there in real life because US airports do not have international transit areas with restaurants or shops. The area before passport control usually contains bathrooms and little else.