The young woman had planned to spend a month with a friend in Los Angeles and then fly home to Berlin. But she’s been in federal custody since late January.

Brösche, 26, never made it to LA. She’s been in federal immigration custody since Jan. 25 — the day they tried to cross into the United States through the San Ysidro Port of Entry.

Brösche had her German passport, confirmation of her visa waiver to enter the country, along with a copy of her return ticket back to Berlin, Lofving said. A U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent pulled Brösche aside for a secondary inspection.

She didn’t know it then, but it would be 25 days before Lofving would see her friend again. Brösche would spend that time in federal detention, where she remains, waiting for a deportation flight back to Berlin.

  • @[email protected]English
    43•14 days ago

    In Norwegian, live in Denmark and work for a Danish company, who also operates in the US. If my manager were to say, it ask, if I can go to the US office for work, I’ll say no unless I get a really fucking good life insurance while I’m there. I don’t want to go to the US for whatever reason.

    • @[email protected]English
      7•14 days ago

      Nordic countries > EU countries + Switzerland > Oceania > rest. Unfortunately, I have to admit it as a German.

    • @[email protected]English
      3•14 days ago

      I was refusing to travel to the US for any reason, even before this latest insanity. Would I trust the average human being with a gun? No.

      Then why the fuck would I go to the US, where any person can buy a machinegun from Walmart? Where multiple times every year there are mass murders with guns, even in schools?

      Okay, a mass murderer might have to illegally travel through some states with said machinegun (if I went to one of the more reasonable states where they aren’t sold/allowed), but it’s not like there are checkpoints between borders. I doubt a mass murderer would care if their gun was illegal in the state they planned to shoot up. Insanity. I’m not sure why any reasonable person would have travelled to the US before, but now…?!

      • @[email protected]English
        2•13 days ago

        Just a point of order, we’re not selling machineguns in Wal Mart yet. I have no hope of stopping such a future though. The court case against the machinegun ban is already moving to the Supreme Court.

        • @[email protected]English
          2•13 days ago

          I heard its okay to ignore laws in the US now and just dare someone to stop you. Or is that rule only for the orangest of them all?

          • @[email protected]English
            2•13 days ago

            You do indeed need to pass the orange test. They hold a Florida Orange up and if you aren’t at least that shade of orange you have to abide by the law.