Another case - I'm not keeping up with all of them:
Becky Burke, from Wales, was halfway through a backpacking trip across North America when ICE grabbed her and detained her for 19 days. She is now back in Wales. Her parents haven't asked her for many details yet, but they say she was "taken in leg chains, waist chains and handcuffs".
ICE says she violated "the terms and conditions of her admission". Her parents guess maybe it was because she was on a tourist visa and she'd been getting free lodging from people on her trip in exchange for helping them around the house... thus violating her tourist visa, which doesn't allow employment???
It raises lots of questions.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly67j35y99o
(4/n)
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