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Brösche, 26, never made it to LA. She’s been in federal immigration custody since Jan. 25 — the day they tried to cross into the United States through the San Ysidro Port of Entry.

Brösche had her German passport, confirmation of her visa waiver to enter the country, along with a copy of her return ticket back to Berlin, Lofving said. A U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent pulled Brösche aside for a secondary inspection.

She didn’t know it then, but it would be 25 days before Lofving would see her friend again. Brösche would spend that time in federal detention, where she remains, waiting for a deportation flight back to Berlin.

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[–] SpaceNoodle 242 points 1 day ago (4 children)

And this is just a story that made the news out of sheer luck. Imagine how many more innocent people are locked up or worse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

And this is just a story that made the news out of sheer ~~luck~~ white privilege.

smh.

[–] captainlezbian 41 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Not sheer luck, but because she's german. Germans haven't been mass migrating to America since the 60s at the latest and her detention is a change from the norm of us mostly only doing this to Latin Americans, Caribbean folks, Middle Easterners, and Africans

[–] rottingleaf 2 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

So Eastern Europe is not in the list? Just askin

[–] I_Has_A_Hat 4 points 6 hours ago

Nope, they aren't brown enough to be on the list.

[–] captainlezbian 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I have no idea. We don't get enough of you for it to be a thing we really talk about

[–] garbagebagel 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

They don't talk about it because that's not the colour of immigrant they're worried about. Europeans make up 10% of all immigrants living in the states - the 3rd largest region group after those from the Americas (52%) and from Asia(31%), which you also didn't mention above.

Africans and middle eastern people are on your list of talked about immigrants because they are the right colour for the media to complain about despite making up less of the immigrant population in the states.

[–] SpaceNoodle 5 points 20 hours ago

It's certainly notable because of that, but her Germanity isn't what led people to finally locate her - what the article outlined was a series of fortunate events.

[–] P1nkman 41 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

In Norwegian, live in Denmark and work for a Danish company, who also operates in the US. If my manager were to say, it ask, if I can go to the US office for work, I'll say no unless I get a really fucking good life insurance while I'm there. I don't want to go to the US for whatever reason.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

I was refusing to travel to the US for any reason, even before this latest insanity. Would I trust the average human being with a gun? No.

Then why the fuck would I go to the US, where any person can buy a machinegun from Walmart? Where multiple times every year there are mass murders with guns, even in schools?

Okay, a mass murderer might have to illegally travel through some states with said machinegun (if I went to one of the more reasonable states where they aren't sold/allowed), but it's not like there are checkpoints between borders. I doubt a mass murderer would care if their gun was illegal in the state they planned to shoot up. Insanity. I'm not sure why any reasonable person would have travelled to the US before, but now...?!

[–] NewDay 7 points 10 hours ago

Nordic countries > EU countries + Switzerland > Oceania > rest. Unfortunately, I have to admit it as a German.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 day ago

Imagine how many American citizens are sitting in these camps and will be deported to some other country as Trump tries to eliminate due process and rob them of their day in court.