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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: 0, Troll) by VLM on Tuesday May 02 2017, @09:09PM (3 children)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday May 02 2017, @09:09PM (#503158)

    I enjoyed ACs rant, in that this story reminds me of similar outrage propaganda pieces where the preferred two minutes hate target has already been determined and pointing out the carefully manufactured and censored nature of the story mostly falls on deaf ears because, hey, its time for the two minutes hate and some critic pointing out the whole narrative is fake is kinda harshing my buzz.

    So I propose the true full story is probably something like the lazy dude showed up 5 minutes late knowing he's 5 minutes late and blew his wad in a 90 minute long hour (wtf was this during daylight savings time night or something?) lecture to the border patrol officers antifa style just like ACs rant going on and on all boring about how they're all fascists and they'll be the first against the wall when antifa takes over blah blah blah and finally some officer is like "OK we've now met the biggest asshole in the country of Canada" and points out the date and the date on the visa and here we are.

    I'm just saying I've been thru customs and I'm not patronizing or kissing up but I'm professional and relaxed and respectful and what a surprise they treat me the same way right back. I mean they want to get their shift over with ontime while filling out minimal paperwork and experiencing minimal annoyance as much as I want to get the hell out of there with minimal annoyance, and oddly enough my behaving in a civilized manner seems to greatly assist in that.

    Any normal human goes thru customs and this kind of thing would get a chuckle or it would get "fixed" on the spot in an hour or two. But "the biggest asshole in Canada" goes thru the line, well, things happen.

    Do I feel a profound sense of loss that the biggest asshole in Canada can't contaminate our US soil with his rant filled presence? Nah bro, I'm good.

    What a surprise the coverage is exclusively one side of the story with no details and a coincidental political slant. I'm so shocked! Thats like never happened before in the history of coverage of the God Emperor. What a brilliantly new strategy. Wow just wow.

    Progressive values are obsolete and dead. The sooner people get over that, the happier they'll be. In the modern world they just look silly like that monty python sketch with the knight claiming its just a flesh wound and all that. What a fascinating philosophy progressivism was, but its dead now, lets move on with something new. Arguing about the liveliness of progressivism is kinda like arguing that Texas is not really a state or the south never lost the civil war or whatever. You know how people looked at hippie burnouts in the 80s, thats antifa in 2017, laughable pitiable relics. Can't live in the past forever...

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @12:35AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @12:35AM (#503342)

    Regardless of how much of an "asshole" someone might be, that does not justify authority figures mistreating them. So no matter what, outrage is justified. I'm not sure why you're making excuses for government thugs - poor excuses, at that.

  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday May 03 2017, @01:14AM (1 child)

    by kaszz (4211) on Wednesday May 03 2017, @01:14AM (#503382) Journal

    How do you know the Australian man was an asshole?

    • (Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday May 03 2017, @11:56AM

      by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday May 03 2017, @11:56AM (#503572)

      Because its a man bites dog ridiculous story that doesn't fit in with real experience.

      To get on the news someone can complain "a cop punched me"

      The back story might be spit on the cop for five minutes and pulled a baseball bat and THEN the cop punched him.

      Take a wild guess how it will be reported, and of course its all Trumps fault, etc.