Turisti tedeschi deportati da noi per non aver prenotato hotel
https://www.newsweek.com/germany-tourists-deported-hotel-maria-lepere-charlotte-pohl-hawaii-2062046
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Turisti tedeschi deportati da noi per non aver prenotato hotel
https://www.newsweek.com/germany-tourists-deported-hotel-maria-lepere-charlotte-pohl-hawaii-2062046
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By Billal Rahman – Immigration Reporter:
Two German teenage girls were detained and deported from the United States after arriving in Hawaii without a hotel reservation.
The case highlights how minor oversights can trigger severe immigration enforcement under President Donald Trump’s aggressive border policies.
Read more: [https://www.newsweek.com/germany-tourists-deported-hotel-maria-lepere-charlotte-pohl-hawaii-2062046](https://www.newsweek.com/germany-tourists-deported-hotel-maria-lepere-charlotte-pohl-hawaii-2062046)
Austrian painter screenplay repetition?
From the article:
CBP Assistant Commissioner for Public Affairs Hilton Beckham told Newsweek: “Another false narrative. These travelers weren’t deported—they were denied entry after attempting to enter the U.S. under false pretenses. One used a Visitor visa, the other the Visa Waiver Program. Both claimed they were touring California but later admitted they intended to work—something strictly prohibited under U.S. immigration laws for these visas.”
Not sure to which point this is reliable (I’d appreciate if someone could confirm it) but if they admitted that they intended to work then the US had every right to deny entry
Poor girls. So long, US tourism.
Don’t trust USA, it’s not safe.
Maybe ppl reposting old news should put that in the title, just a suggestion.
I was last in the USA in 1999 with my wife. We had to transfer from one international flight to another. There wasn’t an international area, so we had to go out through US immigration and then back in again. The immigration agents managed to make us vow to never go back to the USA.
BTW we’re both white and English speaking. I imagine that a couple of young German girls could easily have their words twisted by aggressive officials.
>No News articles older than 1 month
Article came out 30 days ago
Man you posting this at the last possible Moment.
edit : Just realized this is the offical reddit account for the website.
What a fucking shithole.
Bruce Springsteen is right – don’t give up on America because it’s full of good people. I truly believe that too.
But you guys gotta wake up. Turning your backs on the world.
The worst thing about this is that they were accused of planning to work when they didn’t do that. During their interviews they tried to explain how they got the money they had and said that they *had previously* been working remotely but weren’t planning to on this trip in America because the knew that wasn’t allowed.
They made a post and that was verified but they and this story are being pursued everywhere by Anti-European propagandists and so everything is being deleted and replaced with links to Homeland Security propaganda. [I found a copy and recorded the text at the tme](https://www.reddit.com/r/backpacking/comments/1k4rjol/comment/mor9m2c/). Now the propagandists are following this story everywhere and repeating lies about them.
Imagine that you go abroad following all the rules carefully. Working remotely in the countries that welcome it (for example Indonesia, Iceland and Portugal all offer special “digital nomad” visas) and not in the ones that don’t. Then one of those countries picks on you because you come from Europe and starts spreading lies about you all over the media. Now no country you go to will trust you ever again and likely your source of income will have dried up.
STOP TRAVELING TO THE U.S.! 🙄
My daughter already decided to cancel her U.S. trip with her friends next year because she doesn’t feel like it’s safe enough and it seems this was an excellent decision.
Old news
So if you are visiting friends over there you are banned from staying at their place and forced to book a hotel?
Having a place to stay is a basic requirement for visiting pretty much any country. It’s something that needs to be stated on immigration forms.
Such a nothing story America has been like this for years Canada and Australia are the exact same if you can’t prove you have appropriate accommodation for your stay you won’t be allowed in. Maybe us Europeans have gotten so used to allowing absolutely anyone into our countries for any reason that even the most basic checks seem dystopian.
Is it so hard to book a couple nights of accomodation when you go to a new country?
Seriously people, if you come to Canada or Japan, and can’t tell the custom agent will you are staying tonight, you’d be denied entry.
So the officials thought since they don’t have hotel once they enter they will hide somewhere in the US and not go back to Germany? Did it not occur to them to ask for their return ticket? But most importantly why would someone from Germany would like to hide in the US or stay in US illegally?
– At the airport, they requested to be sent to Japan.
Guess what, basic requirement for entering Japan is booking accomodations
Pretty much any time you’re going through customs to a new country you’re required to let them know where you’re staying and for how long. They would do the same thing to you in Korea, Japan, India, Botswana, wherever. When you come into the EU (as a non-EU citizen) you need to do the same.
The strip search happened out of a misunderstanding. They could have immediately taken the next flight back to their origin (New Zealand) but requested to fly to Japan instead because that was their next destination. They did not realize that the Japanese flight wasn’t until the next day which required them to spend the night in a US prison which required a strip search.
Apparently one of the girls had a meeting scheduled for when she was in the US but she said it had been cancelled. This fact combined with her working remotely prior combined with her having no hotel booked gave border agents enough suspicion to turn them away.
I’ve watched the us border protection documentary/ shows, and it is my understanding that this has been standard for years.
At this point – if you go to US – stop complaining. You are doing it to yourself.
This story – again?
imagine going for vacation in Germany in 1939
you can t really say you didn t know what to expect
also what the fuck are you going there for ?
With all due respect, high school graduates with nothing tying them to their home country, flights for an almost a two month stay and no accommodation booked is literally the reddest of red flags. I say this as someone who strongly disagrees with 99% of what bs the border agents are doing.
Why is Newsweek posting a month old article of their’s on Reddit, u/newsweek?
When the US wants to clamp down illegal border crossings: bu-b-buh its the visa overstays that are the real problem!
When the US gets serious about visa abuse: this thread.
Not good for air bnb stock….
Welcome to being treated like non-eu people are treated when applying for a visa to Germany
Oh not this again, this is older news. Yes they got deported, but not because they didn’t book a hotel, but because they were going to “work” in the USA.
According to many other sources, they signed a protocol of their questioning that stated they were going to work in the us, after arriving in Japan, they get the protocol and said, that this was not what they were saying at all.
NOW COMES THE BUT
They didn’t have enough funds to make the border officers believe they were able to finance the vacation in the USA, they didn’t have enough money. And said they were going to make up the money with some social media or remote work. So they INDEED intended to work in the US, that’s what working in the US means.
Same thing happened to a Tattoo artist that was apprehended at the US/Mexico border with her tattoo tools. She said she didn’t want to work, but her social media state something different.
Coming in with a tourist visa or even ESTA does not give you eligibility to work in the US. So get the proper Visa and there is no problem.
YES social media and influenza stuff IS work. You get paid for that so you gotta pay taxed and have permission to do that in the country you currently reside.
These are not the cases of deportation we should pay attention to, these are legit reasons to deny entry,
People who go to the US have only themselves to blame for stuff like this happening.
Well, Im glad I got to see the Redwoods and some other amazing things the US has to offer, sad I will never see Florida or Chicago which were still on my list, will certainly never visit again after reading this crap.
Only been to the U.S once, six years ago. Sedona, Flagstaff, Grand Canyon, etc. Rented a Car and then setup my tent overnight in wild areas where it was allowed, and occasionally went into an AirBnb for a good shower, etc. All this was in a spontaneous manner. I guess this sort of visit modality is over then? The last time my every stay had to be recorded in the form of date stamps was in Uzbekistan in 2017 – an authoritarian state.
Easy answer to this. Don’t go . Americans want to make America great again. And you’re not in the plan.
Another example of why you shouldn’t visit trumps fascist America
Don’t travel to the USA, if you’re in it for the natural beauty there are plenty of safer options elsewhere that won’t send you to El Salvador.
This sounds of some serious Blockwart energy. Put loosers into positions of power, so that they can get their revenge on everybody else. Worked in Germany.
germany denies visas for less so i think they got off easy