The young woman had planned to spend a month with a friend in Los Angeles and then fly home to Berlin. But she’s been in federal custody since late January.

Brösche, 26, never made it to LA. She’s been in federal immigration custody since Jan. 25 — the day they tried to cross into the United States through the San Ysidro Port of Entry.

Brösche had her German passport, confirmation of her visa waiver to enter the country, along with a copy of her return ticket back to Berlin, Lofving said. A U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent pulled Brösche aside for a secondary inspection.

She didn’t know it then, but it would be 25 days before Lofving would see her friend again. Brösche would spend that time in federal detention, where she remains, waiting for a deportation flight back to Berlin.

  • jpreston2005@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1033·
    22 hours ago

    CBP agents at the border accused Brösche of planning to violate the terms of the visa waiver program by intending to work as a tattoo artist during her trip to LA

    Oh wow, a visiting artist might come do some art, fucking arrest her!

    Jesus fucking christ the sociopathic cowards running these ABC agencies are dumber than shit

    • GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.socialEnglish
      3·
      5 hours ago

      Hey, on the bright side she has an opportunity to make a sone money. Either through a potential lawsuit (doubt.) or the smarter option: oil on canvas artwork of her experience in the detention center. Her story is global now and the notoriety may boost the sale price.

    • spacesatan@leminal.spaceEnglish
      142·
      8 hours ago

      Work doesn’t stop being work because it’s artistic.

      If you violate your visa you can get deported, that’s pretty normal globally and does involve an arrest. It’s only exceptional because of the inhumane conditions of detention facilities in the US and because she was arrested immediately instead of being denied entry or educated on the restrictions of the visa. If she presumably told CBP she was intending to violate the visa waiver she probably thought it was acceptable for some reason.

      “Why yes customs agent, I am intending to perform work in exchange for money while in the US on a tourism entry permit” -Privileged and naive white tourist used to the Schengen area about to dive face first into a poisoned spike pit that was meant to catch brown people

      The problem is the spike pit, not really the person diving into it making headlines because they happen to be a white woman.

      • PixelPinecone@lemmy.todayEnglish
        13·
        8 hours ago

        Yeah, but she didn’t violate it yet. We don’t arrest and detain people for what they might do(excluding threats to national security). Well at least on paper.

        I agree that the tattoo work is still work, and I’m not implying you think she was rightfully detained. But if you are, she wasn’t. If you’re not, then this comment is to add context.

        • M0oP0o@mander.xyzEnglish
          4·
          3 hours ago

          We don’t arrest and detain people for what they might do(excluding threats to national security). Well at least on paper.

          The “excluding threats to national security” can be very flexible when you purposely do not define national security.