Since US President Donald Trump took office, several tourist and visa incidents have been arrested at the American border crossings or detained for weeks in American American immigration holders.
In recent weeks, Great Britain has revised its advice to citizens traveling to the United States, to include a warning that anyone has noticed that who breaks their entry rules could face an arrest or detention.
Germany has updated its travel notice for the United States this week to emphasize that a visa or an exemption from the entry does not guarantee the entry for its citizens after several Germans were recently detained on the border, said a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
An American woman and her German fiancé spoke to the Associated Press of their travel test after returning from Mexico in February.
American border agents handcuffed Lennon Tyler, an American citizen, and chained him on a bench, while his fiancé, Lucas Sieff, was accused of having raped the rules of his 90 -day American tourist license, said the couple.
They returned on February 18, just 22 days in the Tourist permit of Sielaff at 90 days, and Tyler said that his partner had been interviewed aggressively and had struggled to respond in his second language. The authorities then handcuffed and chained Sielaf and sent him to a crowded American immigration detention center.
Sielaff said he had received a full body search and ordered his mobile phone and personal effects. He was placed in a detention cell, where he slept on a bench for two days, before being transferred to the Otay Mesa detention center in San Diego.
Two weeks later, he was finally told to get a direct flight to Germany and submit a confirmation number. After a frantic call from Sieff, Tyler bought a ticket for $ 2,744. His fiancé stolen on March 5.
“What happened on the border was only flagrant abuses of the power of the border patrol,” said Tyler, who plans to continue the United States government.
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US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said in an E -mail at AP that Sieff and Jessica Brösche – another German, who was detained for 45 days in a separate incident – “were deemed inadmissible” by customs and border protection.
This agency said that it could not discuss details, but “if the statutes or visa conditions are raped, travelers can be subject to detention and deletion”. The agencies did not comment on other cases.
The two German tourists were authorized in the United States as part of a renunciation program offered to a limited group in countries, mainly in Europe and Asia, whose citizens are authorized to go to the United States for business or leisure up to 90 days without obtaining a visa in advance.
Even if they are allowed to travel under this system, they can always be prohibited from entering the country.
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But Pedro Rios, director of the American Friends Service Committee, a non -profit organization that helps migrants, told the Associated Press during the 22 years he worked on the border, he has never seen travelers from Western Europe and Canada, longtime American allies, to be locked up, as has happened in a number of incidents reported to the media.
“The only reason I see is that there is a much more fervent anti-immigrant atmosphere,” said Rios.
Contested French scientist
A French scientist has also recently been refused entry into the United States for a conference, in disputed circumstances.
“I learned with fear that a French researcher in assignment for the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) who went to a conference near Houston was denied entry to the United States before being expelled,” said the Minister of Higher Education and Research, Philippe Baptiste in a statement to the France-Presse agency.
The measure was apparently taken because the scientist had expressed personal opinion on the research policy of the Trump administration, he added, but did not develop.
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A customs spokesperson and American border protection said that confidentiality restrictions have prevented the agency from discussing specific cases, but a spokesperson for the Ministry of Homeland Security vehemently denied this allegation.
The spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin declared on social networks that “the French researcher in question was in possession of confidential information on his electronic apparatus of Los Alamos National Laboratory – in violation of a non -disclosure agreement – something he admitted to take without authorization and tried to hide.”
The French government has not yet responded to McLaughlin’s statement.
Aggressive tactics, legal challenges
So far, Trump in his second term An even more aggressive approach to immigration problems than in his first presidency. So far there have been controversial incidents involving Detention of a university campus demonstratorand the denial of the entry to a Lebanese doctor who had studied and worked in the United States For several years, among others.
In another case, a former student of the University of Columbia, based in New York, Ranjani Srinivasan, is temporarily in Canada after the revocation of her visa and she says that she was sought by American immigration and customs agents.
The doctoral student at Columbia University, Ranjani Srinivasan, calls the accusations that she is a “terrorist sympathizer”, telling David Common of CBC that she feared for her security after immigration and customs officials presented themselves at her door.
A few days after the inauguration of Trump in 2017, some American airports saw chaos scenes, because travelers in several Muslim majority Muslim countries were prohibited as a result of an executive decision that even certain government agencies and senior high -level officials received no prior warning.
The travel ban did not initially resist a legal examination of the courts and was then modified by its administration.
Trump also moved to his first mandate to cancel the protections for young immigrants, sometimes called dreamers, brought to the United States illegally as a child and acted against the states and cities that protect illegal immigrants.
At the start of this term, he moved To end the citizenship of the right of birthwhich was immediately disputed before the courts.
While Trump has focused on reducing illegal immigration, Often use degrading and dehumanizing languageThe file of his first administration was marked by a decrease in legal immigration Even before the COVVI-19 pandemic was declared in March 2020.
Companies in a variety of industries, from Silicon Valley technology to agriculture and manufacturing, noted a drop in work visas issued.
