Is it secure to go to the US? – podcast | US information

“Border Patrol at all times had the best to grill individuals attempting to enter the US, proper,” Guardian US reporter Adam Gabbatt tells Michael Safi. “However from what we are able to inform now, Border Patrol brokers at the moment are more likely to principally get into individuals’s enterprise, so to look individuals’s units, significantly cellphones, and there appears to have been an actual spike within the variety of individuals being questioned and now detained. We’ve seen that with vacationers, but additionally individuals on inexperienced playing cards and dealing visas.”

A kind of individuals was Jasmine Mooney, a Canadian entrepreneur who had travelled to the US on a piece visa many occasions.

When Jasmine travelled to the US in March, an officer questioned her on her earlier points getting a visa granted and she or he was advised she would want to reapply for a visa by the consulate.

“She goes: You didn’t do something flawed. You’re not in hassle. You aren’t a prison. And she or he was being so good at this level, and it was so odd however now, after I look again, I’m like: Oh, she knew it was about to occur to me.”

When the officer advised Jasmine she can be despatched again to Canada, Jasmine assumed she would simply must e-book herself a flight residence. As an alternative, she was detained and despatched to an Ice detention centre for 2 weeks.

“This guard took me,” Jasmine tells Michael. “Fingers me this little mat and this aluminum foil factor that I’ve by no means seen earlier than. And she or he goes, that is your blanket. And I’m like: What do you imply? That’s my blanket? After which they open like, it’s jail. It’s a jail cell precisely such as you see on the films. This tiny little cement cell with an open bathroom. There have been 5 different ladies in there.”

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