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posted by martyb on Tuesday May 02 2017, @05:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the Get-Me-Outta-Here! dept.

The Guardian

An Australian man has been handcuffed and locked up in a US detention centre after apparently breaching his visa conditions by just over one hour.

Sydney man Baxter Reid, 26, was in the US on a five-year visa and had travelled to Canada as part of a requirement for him to exit and re-enter America every six months to keep his visa valid.

But his American girlfriend Heather Kansco said Reid was arrested by US Border Patrol officers on 23 April after delays receiving clearance to cross into Canada meant he breached his visa conditions by just over an hour.

According to Kansco's account, the couple were given "the runaround" for more than four hours at the US-Canada border. By the time Canadian authorities referred them back to US Border Patrol, Reid had "technically violated his visa requirements".

"The US Border Patrol ended up taking Baxter away, because after waiting for hours with the Canadians, he ... was illegally in the US for a SINGLE HOUR," wrote Kansco.

Australian Broadcast Corp

A Canberra man has been detained in the United States for reportedly overstaying his visa by less than two hours.

... Mr Reid's brother, Alexander, said Canadian officials did not want to let Baxter through because his visa was close to expiring. "Because they had kept him, his visa had expired by 90 minutes," he said.

"He wants to go back home, but he wants to go of his own accord," Alexander said. "He doesn't want to get deported because he still wants to go back to the US because that's where his girlfriend lives."

"He wants to get a court date so he can say to the judge 'I was leaving [of] my own accord, I don't want to stay here illegally'," he said.

"But unfortunately a court date can be anywhere from a few weeks to six months.

"He could be locked up in detention for months only because his visa expired by 90 minutes."

Offering (forced) accommodation for free (on tax money) for at least a few weeks will prove a good investment in advertising the US tourism industry, right?


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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by edIII on Tuesday May 02 2017, @07:30PM (21 children)

    by edIII (791) on Tuesday May 02 2017, @07:30PM (#503072)

    Her was trying to spell out the German word for sir or man, "Herr".

    "Herr Donald Trump" was what he meant. Which is incorrect anyways. It's Mein Fuhrer, Dark Emperor God of the Fourth Reich, bringer of the best chocolate cake. Everybody talks about the chocolate cake.....

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @07:39PM (15 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @07:39PM (#503082)

    I voted for Dr Jill.

    • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @08:10PM (14 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @08:10PM (#503108)

      Also terrible. In fact every listed option disgusted me in one way or another. I ended up writing in the registered write-in candidate that said the least just because he didn't say enough to disgust me in some way.

      Worst. Election. Ever.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @08:19PM (13 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @08:19PM (#503114)

        You must miss Calvin Coolidge, president of few words, whose incompetence caused the Great Depression.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @08:31PM (12 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @08:31PM (#503124)

          My choice was for the one with no red flags among a sea of others with obvious red flags. There was no good choice.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @08:45PM (3 children)

            by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @08:45PM (#503133)

            Is that like how you decline dates and break off relationships based on deal breakers? Wow I never knew voting was exactly like dating in every way. We need a voting app which lets you swipe left or swipe right on the candidates.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @09:01PM (1 child)

              by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @09:01PM (#503147)

              Hey, if I'm going to be stuck with my choice for 4 years, then yeah.

              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @09:14PM

                by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @09:14PM (#503164)

                Elected official stopped giving head after the first year in office. Would not elect again.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @08:36PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @08:36PM (#503926)

              We need a voting app which lets you swipe left or swipe right on the candidates.

              You forgot the center. :(

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @09:30PM (7 children)

            by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @09:30PM (#503179)

            Unless you wanted someone with an actual jobs plan.

            ...and someone pledged to cut back on the grossly overweight "defense" budget.

            ...and someone committed to stopping the kinds of cop-related abuses mentioned in TFS.

            ...and someone pledged to put the white collar criminals who crashed the economy in prison.

            Dr. Stein had all of these as planks in her platform.
            There were others on the ballot with "Socialist" in the names of their parties and/or in their philosophies who had similar platforms.

            The majority of voters didn't even know about these folks because they are lazy and stick to the 2-party horse race narrative of Lamestream Media that avoids any actual issues which concern working class USAians.

            -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @09:41PM (6 children)

              by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @09:41PM (#503191)

              Don't blame me, I voted for Frau Stein and her Green New Deal.

              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @10:27PM (5 children)

                by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @10:27PM (#503218)
                • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @11:20PM (4 children)

                  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @11:20PM (#503284)

                  After Bernie came from zero to get 44 percent in the primary season and after he was completely marginalized at the Blue's convention, a bunch of Bernie supporters switched over to Jill.

                  Her platform is more worker-friendly than Bernie's.
                  Here, she contrasts herself with Bernie. [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [theintercept.com]
                  On the topic of cops in particular, she's for civilian review boards and increased accountability.

                  -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

                  • (Score: 2) by butthurt on Wednesday May 03 2017, @02:21AM (3 children)

                    by butthurt (6141) on Wednesday May 03 2017, @02:21AM (#503415) Journal

                    Stein got 1% [of the total votes in November 2016.]

                    [...] Stein’s total votes in Michigan and Wisconsin were greater than the margin Clinton lost each state, so had the Stein backers in those states voted as a bloc for Clinton instead, she would have carried each state (although Clinton still would have lost the Electoral College).

                    -- http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/16-for-16/ [centerforpolitics.org]

                    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @05:38AM (2 children)

                      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @05:38AM (#503491)

                      ...after getting roughly zero percent of the TeeVee air time.
                      One wonders if she couldn't come up with the money or if THEY SIMPLY WOULDN'T TAKE HER MONEY.

                      ...meanwhile, Trump got $5B of airtime, gratis.
                      Do I really have to quote CBS's CEO yet again?

                      had the Stein backers [voted for Killery]...

                      Yeah. Right.
                      ...because folks who voted for Jill really wanted a documented warmonger and Neoliberal as president (another 4 years of O'Bummer).
                      Do you even -think- about this stuff before you type it in??

                      Clue: There are actually people who are INFORMED and vote for the IDEAS they like best.
                      They want their choices to show up in the tally and they won't vote defensively for the second-worst choice.

                      ...then there's the folks who had only consumed what TeeVee had to offer, saw nothing worthwhile, and stayed home on Election Day.
                      That was about half of eligible voters.
                      What the DNC and Lamestream Media did in the 2016 election cycle was shameful.

                      ...and had the League of Women Voters still been in charge of the debates and The Big 2 -not- been allowed to exclude candidates, I think Jill and her ideas would have kicked the asses of both Donnie Tiny Hands and Killery.

                      -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

                      • (Score: 2) by butthurt on Wednesday May 03 2017, @08:17AM (1 child)

                        by butthurt (6141) on Wednesday May 03 2017, @08:17AM (#503524) Journal

                        I was responding to your earlier comment in which you said:

                        After Bernie came from zero to get 44 percent in the primary season and after he was completely marginalized at the Blue's convention, a bunch of Bernie supporters switched over to Jill.

                        I wondered how many "a bunch" amounted to.

                        Clue: There are actually people who are INFORMED and vote for the IDEAS they like best.
                        They want their choices to show up in the tally and they won't vote defensively for the second-worst choice.

                        Agreed. According to the page I linked, around 1% of the total votes in the November election were cast for Ms. Stein--and had all of Ms. Stein's supporters instead cast votes for Ms. Clinton, it likely wouldn't have made a difference in the final outcome.

                        Yeah. Right.
                        ...because folks who voted for Jill really wanted a documented warmonger and Neoliberal as president (another 4 years of O'Bummer).
                        Do you even -think- about this stuff before you type it in??

                        My point was simply that the people you described are few in number. I didn't mean to imply that they should have done anything differently.

                        ...and had the League of Women Voters still been in charge of the debates and The Big 2 -not- been allowed to exclude candidates, I think Jill and her ideas would have kicked the asses of both Donnie Tiny Hands and Killery.

                        According to this video, Ms. Stein and Mr. Johnson debated each other in 2012 under the aegis of RT, attracting "millions" of viewers.

                        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4HJBE62IzI [youtube.com]

                        In 2016, Mr. McMullin invited them to debate him, but I don't know whether the debate happened.

                        http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/294880-mcmullin-challenges-johnson-stein-to-undercard-debate [thehill.com]

                        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @09:57AM

                          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @09:57AM (#503540)

                          Yeah. I linked to a transcript of that.
                          (I don't do video and I especially don't stream; I like text and, occasionally, audio downloads.)

                          I had a link to transcript of a debate with 4 third-party candidates, but the page is gone now.

                          -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @09:09PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @09:09PM (#503159)

    Führer. Get it right.

    • (Score: 2) by edIII on Tuesday May 02 2017, @09:22PM

      by edIII (791) on Tuesday May 02 2017, @09:22PM (#503171)

      How? I'm an American. *Looks for the ü key* .....hmmmm.... nope. Can't find it :)

      Seriously, I don't even know what the fuck all those things are. At all. They don't teach you any of that in America, and really, it's not on our keyboards either. I need a small side keyboard with all of those symbols, but more importantly, I'd need to know what the fuck they are....

      Wait. "Umlulao". Is that one of them?

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  • (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Tuesday May 02 2017, @09:31PM (2 children)

    "Herr Donald Trump" was what he meant. Which is incorrect anyways. It's Mein Fuhrer, Dark Emperor God of the Fourth Reich, bringer of the best chocolate cake. Everybody talks about the chocolate cake.....

    I prefer the wienerschnitzel, butterkase and weissbier myself.

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    • (Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Wednesday May 03 2017, @04:19AM (1 child)

      by AthanasiusKircher (5291) on Wednesday May 03 2017, @04:19AM (#503477) Journal

      Ja, you're on the right track with the Weissbier. For Herr Trump, all will be weiss... Weissbier mit weisser Spargel mit weisser Spaetzle mit Weisswurst! Your whole meal will be weiss!

      Heck, alle Welt will be Weiss! Und Wurst! (worst?)

      • (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Wednesday May 03 2017, @05:47AM

        Ja, you're on the right track with the Weissbier. For Herr Trump, all will be weiss... Weissbier mit weisser Spargel mit weisser Spaetzle mit Weisswurst! Your whole meal will be weiss!

        Heck, alle Welt will be Weiss! Und Wurst! (worst?)

        Für die orangen Eins vielleicht, aber nicht für mich.

        Ich habe das Essen wirklich gemeint.

        Ich hätte auch Hefeweizen sagen müssen, und ich hasse wirklich Weißwurst.

        Ich möchte gerne den tag sehen, an dem jeder eine schöne Bronzfarbe ist.

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