British Family Accidentally Enters U.S., Detained by ICE

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Can you explain why their race should have anything to do with this?
 
If true, this is horribly wrong. On the flip side, my spidey sense is telling me that there’s more to this story than we’re being led to believe. C’mon: a family is stopped in a rural part of the border. Mom, dad, three kids. They don’t seem like a threat. Speaking fluent English, they explain to the officer that “We must’ve wandered a bit onto your side of the border. Terribly sorry 'bout that, guvnor.” Unless they’re running drugs or something, that doesn’t seem like the type of people most LEOs would want to waste time handling, processing, etc.

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David Connors was also given a foam cup with noodle soup to eat, but he described the meager meal as “not even apt for animals,” the statement said.
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So it’s a step up from normal Brit cuisine? 🤣🤣🤣
 
It all seems a bit fishy to me.

An animal in the road caused them to detour into the USA?
(tip - just honk your horn and drive slowly, the animal will move).

They were picked up in WA and detained in PA? This is an odd and expensive action by ICE for what is usually just deporting.

Would love to know the other side of the story
 
Thom18 said:
Can you explain why their race should have anything to do with this?
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I hope it doesn’t. I’m just wondering why else nobody is believing accounts of the bad conditions at detentions camps. Race is one possibility.

Sadly, it may take some international shaming before things start to change for the better.
melonhead said:
Unless they’re running drugs or something, that doesn’t seem like the type of people most LEOs would want to waste time handling, processing, etc.
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Before we launch into uncharitable and unfounded speculations about drug-running, keep in mind that this actually isn’t the first time something like this has happened. French Jogger Accidentally Crossed U.S.-Canada Border, Was Detained for Two Weeks in Washington State
 
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blackforest said:
Before we launch into uncharitable and unfounded speculations about drug-running, keep in mind that this actually isn’t the first time something like this has happened. French Jogger Accidentally Crossed U.S.-Canada Border, Was Detained for Two Weeks in Washington State
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Valid point, but by no means was I trying to sound uncharitable. I’m just suspicious and would like more details into the story.

On the one hand, we have a government agency (read bureaucratic and inefficient) so I can see how someone crossing the border could turn into a goat rope.

On the other hand, someone with nothing to hide accidentally crossing an unmarked section of the border, apologizing, and asking permission to turn around doesn’t sound like something the average ICE agent would want to waste time filing paperwork about.

Perhaps we’re building the wall on the wrong border.
Mexico gave us Cheech & Chong, Selma Hayek, and tacos. Canada gave us Justin Bieber and Alannis Morrissette. 🤣
 
Story said the original plan was to release them to a sponsor, not deport them. It’s all a bit confusing. Who knows what was discovered and if there was cause to suspect other motives. Just a point though, having the right of entry doesn’t excuse entering without going through customs.
 
I’m mostly focused on their account of the detention conditions, which seem to be largely ignored in the U.S.
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Mexico gave us Cheech & Chong, Selma Hayek, and tacos. Canada gave us Justin Bieber and Alannis Morrissette. 🤣
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As a lover of both mole and maple syrup, I find this a tough choice.
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So it’s a step up from normal Brit cuisine? 🤣🤣🤣
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I’m deeply concerned that foam-cup noodles are their only sustenance.

If they were being fed English food, I’d be on the phone with Amnesty International. 😉
 
I know, right? They should lighten up. Frigid and filthy conditions with smelly tin blankets are how we Americans show our hospitality.

(At least at detention camps and the Super 8 . . . )
 
It also probably helps that you weren’t arrested and indefinitely detained without due process or access to your Embassy. And that you got to sleep under the stars and play in the creek and go on hikes and grill a delicious meal and roast marshmallows and sing campfire songs and go fishing and do some bird watching and go home whenever you wanted.

Good for you. Weaker people couldn’t handle such a vacation - er, sorry - trauma.
 
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Those things would suck but I would get over it. Just like the time hubby’s truck broke down during on one fishing trip in the middle of freezing rain. It was pretty awful. We didn’t whine over it for the rest of our lives. In fact we didn’t whine over it for more than a few hours.

Get mad. That’s understandable. Get compensated. That’s understandable.
 
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Is there an obvious notice that a person is crossing the border where they crossed? If not how would a tourist know?

Isnt the onus on the government to clearly mark its borders
 
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Don’t you know that everyone who believes in national borders is a racist? It’s just that simple.
 
GiftofMercy said:
Is there an obvious notice that a person is crossing the border where they crossed? If not how would a tourist know?
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Depends on where you are. At some places you have to go through customs. In other places you just have to know. In some of the less developed areas there are spaces out posts. But they don’t necessarily have high visibility.
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Isnt the onus on the government to clearly mark its borders
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Nope.
 
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