Your Homeland Security Dollars in Action
Dan Hughes of TheyBlinked points us to a story about his brother and his fiance. Here’s the intro to the article:
The love story of Trevor Hughes and his fiancee began in an elementary school in the Himalayan foothills.
They were “global nomads.” He was a diplomat’s son. She the daughter of missionaries. They lived in Asia, attended school together, fell in love and want to get married in June.
But when Hughes’ fiancee, a German national, tried to visit him on a six-month tourist visa Monday, she was detained in Atlanta, handcuffed, jailed—even stripped of her diamond engagement ring.
Then, after 20 hours without food, she was put on a plane and shipped back to Stuttgart.
“This isn’t the America I fought for,” said Hughes, who served in the Navy and U.S. diplomatic corps. “You don’t expect that from a great country like ours.”
It’d be easy to say this is an isolated instance if it were an abuse of the system rather than being the system.
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http://www.bitter-girl.com/archives/000931.html
I don’t even know where to start on this one. (found via David Weinberger). Was it because she was born…
Do you feel safer now…
… the Bush Administration has saved you from this dangerous person? I remember a movie like this once. What was it’s name? Midnight Express? Papillon? Gorky Park?…
not my america, i hope, yet it is….
Your Homeland Security Dollars in Action .