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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: 2) by edIII on Tuesday May 02 2017, @09:11PM (6 children)
What Internet? Did you understand what I said about the fucking cell phone?
Who is left in dystopia, while people are running around hoarding food and water, to manage the BGP routing tables that are keeping a city online and connected to a disparate collection of networks with peering and transit agreements?
The Internet is a bit more fragile than people think that it is. Does your city have enough local repositories to re-install your software in the event of an emergency? What do you need to do exactly to keep these systems properly functioning? Are the people responsible for that strong warriors more than capable of defending themselves and gathering resources unto their budding empires? Hardly. Most sysadmins would be the first to leave the cities, or the first to die.
Cardio. Do you know cardio mother fucker? :)
LOL. Internet is a huge concern of mine when the world falls down. ROFL.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @09:24PM (5 children)
So have you gone hunting yet? You'll need deerskin and skunk blood to write your political pamphlets when industrial paper and ink production vanishes. Will you be holding elections for chief of the lodge, or are you planning to seize power by assassinating your rivals? Get yourself a swanky coonskin cap for your outfit too.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Tuesday May 02 2017, @09:44PM (4 children)
You're cute with your banal attempts to troll me, but yes, I have hunted. Not so interested in creating pamphlets for America when I'm not there and it is on fire..... but I liked your prose at least :)
There are no skunks where I'm going, but there are plenty of chances for local meat actually. A cow literally falls down the mountain every so often, and then the surrounding villages have steak. Works pretty nice and laid back.
Of course, on the farm there are chickens, pigs, ducks, and rabbits. No coonskin cap, but rabbit fur bedding is quite nice. I'm going for a Bedrock feel, so I'll try to dye the rabbit furs or something.
As for the ink? I'm smart enough to bring the equipment that I need.... and my own copy of the software repositories I would need to build whatever the fuck I want. You'd be surprised what you are capable of making with 3D makers these days and some software.
No need to write diatribes or anything once the world falls. I'll use whatever power is left to look at pictures from around the world, or print out pages from Wikipedia onto stone for the generation of humans that try to rise from the ashes :D
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @10:13PM (1 child)
Plenty of skunks where I live. The other day I was walking home from the store and I spooked one. I saw a skunk walking down the sidewalk on the other side of the street, the skunk saw me, and it got spooked and it sprayed a full load on the sidewalk before it ran away. Even though I was all the way across the street at the time and the skunk had aimed squarely at the sidewalk on its own side, my clothes still smelled of skunk when I got home. Turns out I had been just close enough to the spray puddle to absorb some of the evaporated vapor.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @08:30AM
My cat got into it with a skunk last week.
Now, the whole back yard reeks of skunk.
It will probably be a couple of weeks before I can pick up my cat again. Wooo does that cat stink!
(Score: 2) by art guerrilla on Tuesday May 02 2017, @10:27PM (1 child)
pretty sure lamp-black/soot can be used to make ink...
hell, not like when The Fall happens, all the ballpoint and felt tip pens disappear (not to mention pencils); after the first couple months when most die off, just have to scrounge some up...
Empire must fall,
the sooner the fall,
the gentler for all...
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @11:07PM
Go hunt a skunk and get sprayed with skunk spunk.