British Comic Creator R.E. Burke Banned From Visiting USA For 10 Years

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/british-comic-creator-r-e-burke-banned-from-visiting-usa-for-10-years/

35 comments

  1. From the article:
    “She wasn’t allowed to tell her family she was on her way home, but one of the women offered to ring her parents to notify them. Becky was shackled at the ankles, wrists and waist, and then made to shuffle out into a van… While every item in her bag was swabbed and dismantled, she was subjected to a full body search. “I was in this very loud, weird, industrial space with pipes and conveyor belts and lights and sirens, being told to open my legs. I was silently crying, watching all my stuff being torn apart as someone else was searching every crevice of me.”

    Jesus Christ, my heart hurts for all those women.

  2. Media suppression via targeting journalists who speak out against leaders.

    That’s supposed to be from the dictators playbook, not the free world’s.

  3. This is gonna become the new “I got sanctioned by Russia” soon.

  4. No one should visit the United States right now – coming from an immigration attorney. It’s not worth the risk.

  6. What the living fuck has the US Government become?

    I’d love to spend our tax money helping the poor, the homeless, the friendless, the stranger, the foreigner rather than locking these people up.

    I mean, WHAT THE LIVING FUCK!?!

  7. Good news, the second civil war should be over by then.

  9. Yea not a goddamn chance I’m visiting the US anytime soon.

  10. Hey dumb dumbs, yes everyone reading this. We’re in a coup. The US is being taken over by dictatorship. It’s called Project 2025. Track their progress here: [https://www.project2025.observer/](https://www.project2025.observer/)

  11. The article says that she was time pressured into signing a 10+ page document of her statements, and that hidden in that document was a fake admission that she received lodging in exchange for work while in the US and that’s how they got her.

  12. >””It was really long, loads of pages.” As she flicked through it, she saw the officer had summarised everything she told him about what she had been doing in the US as just “work in exchange for accommodation”. “I remember thinking, I should ask him to edit that.””

    Not a great plan.

  13. On the news here in Ireland we have been advised to scrub or delete our social media on our phones with regard to anything critical of Trump if planning to visit the US. Or advised to use an old phone with nothing on it 😐

  14. The woman stuck there for 11 months!!!!!!! This is unreal

  17. She is making a comic about the experience of being detained by ICE, the new American gestapo. I hope she makes millions on it.

  19. On a tourist visa. Said she had been working. Foolish. The fact that the yanks are choosing to be as harsh as possible to anyone who breaks immigration rules that would, until recently, have only involved a ban or refusal of entry is purely spiteful and ideological but honestly, NEVER TELL IMMIGRATION OFFICIALS OF _ANY_ SORT THAT YOU HAVE BEEN WORKING WHEN YOU’RE ON A TOURIST VISA.

  24. Why isn’t the British government filing official complaints about this kind of treatment of their citizens?

  25. That is hysterical. I hope she writes a comic about her experiences, it becomes a world wide phenomenon and she makes a mountain of cash off it. Two mountains actually. F’n Gestapo in America. Shame.

  27. Honestly at this point I’d consider being banned from the USA a badge of fucking honour.

  29. „Yeah guys I didn’t want to visit you cunts within the next 20 years anyway“

  31. Given her recent experience I doubt that she will want to

  32. Trump and his wingnuts are willing to deport anyone, to include US citizens so this is no surprise.

  33. However, alleged rapist Russel Brand has some sort of MAGA prayer circle wrapped around him as he enjoys freedom in the USA.

  34. You don’t treat people this way for bullshit like unknowingly stepping over the border or ‘working’ on a visitor visa (even though she didn’t).

    If this is how they treat visa holders that violate the terms of their visa, I expect Elon and Melania to spend some time in an ICE detention facility.

  35. But Europes free speech is at risk…
    But a french politician guilty of fraud is just a witchhunt for an “Accounting error”

    This is totally not the ” dont look this way, look over there, here is nothing to see trust me” tactic

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