Australian with working visa detained and deported on returning to US from sister's memorial
Source: Guardian
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The Australian says he was detained and deported when returning from the memorial in March, despite holding a working visa still valid for more than 15 months. He has been living on the US east coast for seven years where his American partner, apartment, work studio and clients remain.
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I thought I was just going to be given my passport and sent on my way, or maybe asked a couple of questions, but they made some pretty outlandish accusations. They said, We know you have two mobile phones. Weve been tracking your calls. We know youve been selling drugs.
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He says that over a series of short interviews amounting to about half an hour, the official told him his visa had been cancelled and that he was banned from entering the US for five years, including as a transit passenger. He was told he would be placed on a flight to Australia and was handed a document informing him that he was an immigrant not in possession of a valid unexpired immigrant visa as required by the Immigration and Nationality Act. He says he felt he had no choice but to sign the document, which Guardian Australia has seen.
He says the official then told him: Trump is back in town; were doing things the way we should have always been doing them.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/11/australian-with-us-working-visa-detained-insulted-deported

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speak easy
(11,438 posts)Irish_Dem
(69,132 posts)speak easy
(11,438 posts)In NYC when I asked a transport official to repeat what he said because I had not caught all of it.
Irish_Dem
(69,132 posts)Unbelievable.
SSJVegeta
(457 posts)From a Fed employee? 😒 🤔
Irish_Dem
(69,132 posts)I will fight to keep it.
There is nothing on it, but I am not going to give up without a fight.
speak easy
(11,438 posts)Permanent residents can not.
Irish_Dem
(69,132 posts)Rachael Maddow interviewed an American attorney who was stopped and turned
over some of the info on his phone. He was detained because he represents people Trump hates.
speak easy
(11,438 posts)Phone or no phone.
Irish_Dem
(69,132 posts)They have little or no authority to commit their daily crimes.
SSJVegeta
(457 posts)So far citizens are among those groups
Aaeia
(137 posts)People who have never had a sense of power in their lives get high on a little power & they are the ones who become the most abusive of that little power.
The new America.
wolfie001
(4,811 posts)Racist stupid moronic jackass.
BlueWavePsych
(3,101 posts)