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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@lemmy.world 250 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

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

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago

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

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day 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.

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 83 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.

[-] P1nkman@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] NotLemming@lemm.ee 4 points 15 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...?!

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Just a point of order, we're not selling machineguns in Wal Mart yet. I have no hope of stopping such a future though. The court case against the machinegun ban is already moving to the Supreme Court.

[-] NotLemming@lemm.ee 2 points 5 hours ago

I heard its okay to ignore laws in the US now and just dare someone to stop you. Or is that rule only for the orangest of them all?

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

You do indeed need to pass the orange test. They hold a Florida Orange up and if you aren't at least that shade of orange you have to abide by the law.

[-] NewDay@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago

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

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