I'm never going to the US, no way fuck that.
No, not all Americans condone this, just like not all Americans speak English. But we Americans can absolutely be assumed to condone this overall. We chose this, and it's not just the latest election with Trump; this kind of thing was going on under Bush and Obama too. This country has been going this way for a long time.
>"I thought: 'How can human beings treat other vulnerable human beings in this fashion, in public, in full view of everybody?'
Somehow makes me think that the same things if done privately and not in public could even be admissible?
And yup being sixty or seventy isn't going to help you. Perhaps new rules have made this common (I don't know) but this is how American border personnel are. It's fairly well known among the affected communities.
That said, she's absolutely right to stay out of the US. This place is not safe for foreigners, and the treatment she described can be assumed to be the norm now. Take your tourism dollars to a country that treats you right.
Two hours of questioning is nothing in comparison, and the "I felt like I was physically assaulted" line when there was no actual assault makes me sick. Actual assaults happen all the time, people from supposedly friendly nations are routinely treated like animals, and nobody even receives a letter of apology.
Note this writer is white and "anglo"; but her books support respect among the different and a melting-pot worldview, so she's a dangerous subversive and worth of intimidation.
Dark times.
She got a 'charming' apology letter only because she's famous and the US got caught with its pants down. To think that this happens every day to people without a platform.
