People have been denied entry to the US because they said they were house sitting. To the law that’s considered work for accommodation. Immigration has every right to deny you entry. Doesn’t matter if you guys agree with it or not.
Just never say you are doing chores or work in exchange for accommodation to any border cop in any country. So never say you do homestay or are housesitting. It will get you kicked out in many countries not just the US and Canada.
Also this article just proves to only cross the US border by airplane. It seems that every tourist that is in an ICE detention center crossed the border on land.
If she landed in Vancouver she would’ve been send home by plane. Also I bet are she wouldn’t have been caught if she went trough immigration at the airport. Canadian immigration cops are a lot stricter at the borders than at the airport.
i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 2 days ago
echodot@feddit.uk 1 day ago
I’m having real difficulty convincing my mother not to go to the US. She doesn’t really pay much attention to the news and although she knows some things are going on I find it very hard to get her to understand how serious it is.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 18 hours ago
this is well within the territory where you shouldn’t feel bad about pulling out all the stops and making a personal emotional appeal, outright beg her not to go, tell her you’re terrified of losing your mom
Snowclone@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
There’s a significant amount of Americans that are trying to get out. After they close the boarders in they start closing them going out.
alykanas@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
When in fact her advice should have been “understand the terms of your visa”
uselessRN@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Tell that to the man in an El Salvador prison admitted to be an “admin error”. He knew exactly what his terms were and didn’t break any laws. He was sent illegally and he’s not coming back. This isn’t “it happens under all administrations”. Wake up, people are being detained in broad daylight and then theyre cancelling their visas. Wake up before it starts happening to you too.
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 1 day ago
That’s BS. She did chores. Did she even earn wages? She stayed 7 weeks, no overstay.
SabinStargem@lemmy.today 1 day ago
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.
cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Yeah
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 11 hours ago
I love that I can give users tags, for yours I put “Massive POS Bootlicker”. 🙂
sping@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
Meh, sure she was wrong on that, but that doesn’t justify taking her into custody and refusing to allow her to go home.