Summary

German tattoo artist Jessica Brösche, 26, is indefinitely detained by ICE after being denied entry at the San Diego border from Tijuana.

Despite possessing a valid German passport, visa waiver, and return ticket to Berlin, she underwent secondary inspection and spent days in detention, including eight in solitary confinement.

Accused of planning to violate the terms of the visa waiver by working in Los Angeles as a tattoo artist, her ordeal is described as "like a horror movie.”

Brösche‘s friend Amelia Lofving was finally able to track her down and visited after 25 days.

  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    Like a horror movie

    IE. It’s all good when the darker people are butchered until it happens to a white person.

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      9 hours ago

      “She says it was like a horror movie. They were screaming in all different rooms. After nine days, she said she went so insane that she started punching the walls and then she’s got blood on her knuckles,” Lofving said of her friend’s experience.

      It’s a quote from her friend. But yes, obviously this article is intended to show that it could happen to anyone, not just 'the bad one’s.

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      10 hours ago

      you morons that think mexicans don’t come in white varieties are the real fucking ignorance problem.