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    Il turista del Regno Unito con un visto valido viene trattenuto dall’ICE per sei settimane

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    1. Specialist_Baby_9905 on

      Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone’

      Karen has no criminal record. She is a grandmother who spent eight years working as an admin assistant at a primary school before her retirement. “I don’t even have parking tickets in the background anywhere,” she says. “I am not a dangerous criminal. I didn’t enter the country illegally and I had everything I needed to be there.”

      So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? A possible answer began to emerge over the weeks she was incarcerated. As Karen got to know the guards at the Northwest ICE Processing Center where she was held, she kept hearing the same thing from them: that ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. “Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,” Karen says.

      It’s no secret that the Trump administration has been pouring money into ICE. Its annual budget – $6bn a decade ago – is now $85bn; ICE is now the highest -funded law enforcement agency in the US. Since last August, new recruits can expect to receive a signing-on bonus of up to $50,000. 

      Within days of Donald Trump’s second inauguration on 20 January 2025, his administration ordered ICE officials to detain more people, with new quotas that would increase the total number of arrests from a few hundred to 1,200-1,500 a day. Reports immediately began to emerge of international travellers being detained by ICE officers.

    2. Mttsen on

      No one visiting the US is safe these days. Regardless of their ethnicity, nationality, race, age or social status.

      World Cup and Olympics are going to be really interesting.

    5. hmtk1976 on

      I´m glad it wasn´t this bad back in May when we were there…

      Funny that you don´t hear European governments raise a stink about these kidnappings, torture and theft while US ambassadors make a point of insulting European governments.

    6. wihannez on

      Yeah ironically traveling to USA nowadays is like traveling to Iran. Only do it if you don’t value your freedom.

    8. alexbottoni on

      The US is a brutal and violent fascist dictatorship. Stay as far away from it as possible.

    9. modsstayvirgin on

      Isn’t the Uk arresting its own citizens for Facebook posts?

    10. I405CA on

      Be sure to plan your US holiday now.

      If you are fortunate, extended free accommodation may even be provided.

      Why anyone would travel to the US for pleasure these days is hard to fathom.

      And it is high time for the teams and visitors to boycott the FIFA matches scheduled in the US. Empty stadiums would send a clear message.

    11. ForestDweller82 on

      TL;DR:

      Her husband’s visa was expired, and so she assisted him with attempting to cross the Canadian border with an illegal car. This was a violation of her own visa terms, which does not allow that. She was then, as a white British woman, treated like every brown and black nationality has been for decades, and is shocked they didn’t giver her a special exemption for being white. Also she’s a boomer and they didn’t give her a special exemption for that either! She literally got treated like everybody else, god forbid.

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