Her advice to anyone planning to travel to the US is simply not to go. “First, because of the danger of what could happen to you. And, secondly, do you really want to give your money to this country right now?”

Yeah

She had been travelling on her own, staying on homestays free of charge in exchange for doing household chores, drawing as she went. For Burke, 28, it was absolute freedom.

Within hours of posting that drawing, Burke got to see a much darker side of life in America, and far more than a glimpse. When she tried to cross into Canada, Canadian border officials told her that her living arrangements meant she should be travelling on a work visa, not a tourist one. They sent her back to the US, where American officials classed her as an illegal alien. She was shackled and transported to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention centre, where she was locked up for 19 days – even though she had money to pay for a flight home, and was desperate to leave the US.

Meh, sure she was wrong on that, but that doesn’t justify taking her into custody and refusing to allow her to go home.

Trump doesn’t care about law, be it domestic or foreign. He will just grab you by the nethers and say that your visa is dead because he thought it should be.

Her visa was dead. That’s the point.

This is a completely typical outcome for anyone who doesn’t understand the terms of their visa under any administration.

The trap it seems you and many others have fallen into, is the media using a middle class white girl along side emotive language such as “shackled” and “held with criminals” to elicit the outrage response.

Normally if someone enters on a wrong visa, they get informed and sent back (often at their own expense). She was willing to do so once she figured out her mistake, but instead she was thrown in prison for weeks for no real identifiable purpose. She was treated like a criminal who tried to purposefully illegally enter, whereas she just made a mistake on her visa. Her devices were confiscated too so she couldn’t really make contact with friends or family for help.

And if this happens to someone making a mistake, it can happen to someone where border patrol makes a mistake. Fuck that, if that’s how y’all want to treat your guests, I ain’t visiting.

Exactly. Canada refused her entry first, then when America learned why they detained her.

She should have been deported and put on the next flight at her expense, not detained for nearly 3 weeks, but she definitely fucked up and took the piss with her visa.

So send her home then. She’s obviously not trying to illegally live in the US so there was absolutely no reason to arrest her. The problem is they think it’s appropriate to arrest anyone they like and absolutely no one can stop them. I wouldn’t dare go to the US anymore even if I followed every single rule because they can just do whatever the hell they want to whoever the hell they want with absolute impunity.

Obeying the letter of the law is absolutely no guarantee they won’t decide to just screw you over because they get off on it.