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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.
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?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @08:33PM (3 children)
Nobody knows what the fuck they are doing anymore, and Millenials have the life skills of entitled pampered Elites in King Louis XIV's France.
You know that's your fault, right? Somebody failed to teach them. The car runs out of gas, and there's no spare gas can. You can blame the kid in the back seat for not having the foresight to put a spare in the trunk all you want. The only option is to walk to the gas station, even if it's ten or twenty miles away. "It will teach you a lesson," I believe is a common sentiment currently.
I hope you get out in time. The fuel gauge is on E.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Tuesday May 02 2017, @09:01PM (2 children)
If you're blaming him for not raising the Millennials correctly, you could be wrong. If he's an Xer like me (I'm close to at the younger edge of the X generation), which is probably fairly normal for this site, then he's not to blame for the Millennials, because he's too young to have had one himself. The Millennials go up to age ~35; the kids in college now are the generation following that. Someone who's in his 40s isn't old enough to have a kid that's 30 or so, or really even in their late 20s. So if you want to blame someone for raising the Millennials poorly, you need to blame the Boomers, namely people over 55. (Now if the OP is a Boomer, then he's culpable in this way.)
Also, it's quite possible he never had any kids, in which case I say he's off the hook for that too. You can't blame someone who never had kids for raising kids poorly.
Assuming the OP isn't a Boomer and/or has no kids, the only thing I think you could rightfully blame him for is poor voting. But that seems pretty weak to me; our political leaders only have so much to do with how kids are raised, and societal attitudes. It's really an emergent property of the populace at large.
Personally, I prefer to lay all the blame for society's ills on the Boomers and also their parents (who enabled them).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @09:11PM (1 child)
There's too much generational strife nowadays. Let's just kill everyone and let something else evolve to replace us.
On second thought, let's just fucking kill all the Boomers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @01:39AM
is made of elderly people!
Let's start with anyone pro oil or having held a political office and work our way down the list :)
Sounds like the best way to make oil into the renewable resource it was always meant to be...