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CautiousPickle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

This article could have been written as a warning to others about lying to Immigration officials and the possible repercussions but they just go straight to making this girl the poor victim.

The whole article can be summed up with, If you lie to ICE (FA) and they find out (FO) you’re going to have a bad time.

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.

It’s not free of charge if you have to work in exchange for room and board. She was employed by the home owners and instead of cash she got a room.

Her whole trip was planned around working off her room and board with manual labor. She knew exactly what she was doing, she lied, she got caught.

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CrowyTech@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
That maybe so, but why such an excessive stay? Stick her on a plane, sorted.

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- Tweak@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  While I agree the time in detention was excessive, this wasn’t at an airport, it was at the Canadian land border. So it’s understandable that she wouldn’t immediately get on a plane back home - she’d likely have to be taken to a central facility and then transferred to an airport. But yeah, that shouldn’t take 3 weeks.
  
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  - PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    They had to do that to deport her anyway.
    
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    Tweak@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Yes that’s my point. There’s a bit more of a process from the Canadian land border than at an airport. At an airport, you’d just be turned around and paying for a flight. At the land border - particularly the border between two countries that don’t want you - it’s going to take a bit longer because the logistics are more complicated. Also, there might be some kind of investigation, as she has already been staying in the country for several weeks at this point.
    
    However we should be talking about like 3-4 days at most (if that), not 3 weeks.
    
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JokeDeity@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
POS bootlicker

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slickgoat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Okay Maga Hat.

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laserm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Because what the ICE did, while maybe de jure legal, was overexatturated?

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Nay@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
If they didn’t want to go to prison, they shouldn’t have stolen the candy bar. FAFO! Also I hate authoritarians. FREEDOM!

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JokeDeity@lemm.ee ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Another POS bootlicker.

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