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.

  • @SpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    255•3 months ago

    And this is just a story that made the news out of sheer luck. Imagine how many more innocent people are locked up or worse.

    • @ShepherdPie@midwest.socialEnglish
      84•3 months ago

      Imagine how many American citizens are sitting in these camps and will be deported to some other country as Trump tries to eliminate due process and rob them of their day in court.

    • @captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
      45•3 months ago

      Not sheer luck, but because she’s german. Germans haven’t been mass migrating to America since the 60s at the latest and her detention is a change from the norm of us mostly only doing this to Latin Americans, Caribbean folks, Middle Easterners, and Africans

      • @SpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9•3 months ago

        It’s certainly notable because of that, but her Germanity isn’t what led people to finally locate her - what the article outlined was a series of fortunate events.

    • @P1nkman@lemmy.worldEnglish
      43•3 months ago

      In Norwegian, live in Denmark and work for a Danish company, who also operates in the US. If my manager were to say, it ask, if I can go to the US office for work, I’ll say no unless I get a really fucking good life insurance while I’m there. I don’t want to go to the US for whatever reason.

      • @NewDay@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6•3 months ago

        Nordic countries > EU countries + Switzerland > Oceania > rest. Unfortunately, I have to admit it as a German.

        • @Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2•3 months ago

          Just a point of order, we’re not selling machineguns in Wal Mart yet. I have no hope of stopping such a future though. The court case against the machinegun ban is already moving to the Supreme Court.