Jogger crosses US/Canada border, held over 2 wks.

[kadee79]

A French citizen was detained for two weeks in a U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) facility after accidentally jogging from Canada into Blaine, Washington.

On May 21, Cedella Roman was running along a beach in British Columbia when the tide started to rise, causing her to alter her path. As she turned to head back to visit her mother, who lives in British Columbia, two U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents appeared.

“An officer stopped me and started telling me I had crossed the border illegally. I told him I had not done it on purpose and that I didn’t understand what was happening,” Roman told Canada’s CBC News. “I said to myself, 'Well, I may have crossed the border, but they’ll probably only give me a fine, or they’ll tell me to go back to Canada, or they’ll give me a warning.'”



Instead, the agents detained her and sent her to the DHS-operated Tacoma Northwest Detention Center, located more than 124 miles south of the U.S.-Canada border.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/jogger-crosses-us-canada-border-is-held-for-2-weeks/ar-AAz1MTy?li=BBnb7Kz

[apple 2]

The area this happened hasn't changed as long as I can remember.

Suddenly it's a problem?

[weltschmerz]

Jun 22, 2018 22:17:53 GMT -5 apple 2 said:

The area this happened hasn't changed as long as I can remember.

Suddenly it's a problem?

With this new administration, suddenly everything and everyone is a problem.

[swamp]

I did something like that in BC. We were snowmobiling and ended up in advertently crossing the border. I'm sure I'm not the only one.

[kadee79]

Jun 22, 2018 22:17:53 GMT -5 apple 2 said:

The area this happened hasn't changed as long as I can remember.

Suddenly it's a problem?

Yes, due to how long she was detained.  Perhaps due to the color of her skin & her accent?

[retread]

Jun 23, 2018 8:23:14 GMT -5 kadee79 said:

Jun 22, 2018 22:17:53 GMT -5 apple 2 said:

The area this happened hasn't changed as long as I can remember.

Suddenly it's a problem?

Yes, due to how long she was detained.  Perhaps due to the color of her skin & her accent?

Or perhaps because she's not Canadian.   
I'll let you try to figure out why that definitely does make a difference and it has nothing to do with race.  Let's see if you're up to the challenge.

[Gardening Grandma]

That it took two weeks (even though her mother promptly produced documentation) says something about the competency (or lack of) of the border patrol officers.  If not incompetency, what else?

[kadee79]

Jun 23, 2018 8:44:12 GMT -5 retread said:

Jun 23, 2018 8:23:14 GMT -5 kadee79 said:

Yes, due to how long she was detained.  Perhaps due to the color of her skin & her accent?

Or perhaps because she's not Canadian.   
I'll let you try to figure out why that definitely does make a difference and it has nothing to do with race.  Let's see if you're up to the challenge.

Just how long does it take to verify all the papers no matter what country she happens to be a citizen of and as GG said, since her mother provided all the proper documents to prove her citizenship?
I wouldn't think with today's communications speeds that it would take over 2 wks. unless someone wasn't doing their jobs in a timely manner.

[retread]

Jun 23, 2018 12:02:34 GMT -5 kadee79 said:

Jun 23, 2018 8:44:12 GMT -5 retread said:

Or perhaps because she's not Canadian.   
I'll let you try to figure out why that definitely does make a difference and it has nothing to do with race.  Let's see if you're up to the challenge.

Just how long does it take to verify all the papers no matter what country she happens to be a citizen of and as GG said, since her mother provided all the proper documents to prove her citizenship?
I wouldn't think with today's communications speeds that it would take over 2 wks. unless someone wasn't doing their jobs in a timely manner.

If you're going to let GG lead you around by the nose, it's unlikely you'll ever be able to figure it out.

Re-entry into a country to which one has travel documents but isn't a citizen isn't a streamlined process.  She violated the terms of those documents by leaving Canada without them.  And violated US immigration laws by entering without them.  So now we have three countries involved.

The officers performed their duties exactly as the law prescribes.

As much as you might like to think it should be otherwise, the process is necessarily long.  And it has nothing to do with race.

[thyme4change]

Yikes!