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U.K. family held at detention center after accidentally crossing Canadian border into U.S.

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A couple from England who was visiting Canada and took a wrong turn into the United States — swerving to avoid an animal in the road — has been detained with their 3-month-old baby and shipped to the Berks Detention Center in Leesport, Pa., according to their attorneys.

The baby boy has been subjected to frigid and filthy conditions, developing blotchy skin and what seems to be an eye infection, his mother wrote in a sworn statement. At one point the child was left naked and exposed for several hours in the cold jail, after all his clothes and blankets were taken for washing, she said.

The couple, David Connors, 30, and Eileen Connors, 24, says they were denied the right to contact their embassy.

“We will be traumatized for the rest of our lives by what the United States government has done to us,” Connors wrote in her statement.

Attorney Bridget Cambria, of Aldea – The People’s Justice Center, filed a complaint on behalf of the family with the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the nation’s immigration agencies.


U.K. family held at detention center after accidentally crossing Canadian border into U.S., attorneys say
 
In her statement, Connors said that on Oct. 3 her family was visiting Vancouver, Canada, and did not intend to enter the U.S. Her husband’s cousin, Michael Connors, was driving close to the border, and when an animal suddenly appeared in the lane, he turned onto an unmarked road to avoid a collision.

In moments, multiple police cars and Border Patrol agents appeared.

David and Michael Connors were immediately arrested, she said, despite their protestations of innocence.

“You crossed an international border,” the officer told them.
 
The next morning, the couple was told they would be released to a family member in the United States. “It didn’t matter that we told them all we wanted was to go home.”

Later that day, immigration officials said there was a change in plans and they would not be released to a family member. That night, she wrote, immigration agents took the family from their cells, put them in a van and drove — “like an abduction or kidnapping.”

They were taken to a new detention center, where her husband was led from the van to what he later described as a freezing cell. She and the baby, Connors wrote, were taken to a hotel, a Red Roof Inn in Seattle. She had nowhere to boil water for her baby, relying on a microwave.

The next day, the family was taken to the Seattle airport.

“I thought, finally we’re going home.”

Instead, she wrote, the family was flown across the United States to Pennsylvania. They arrived at the Berks center on Oct. 5.

Berks is one of three centers in the county that hold migrant families — the two others are in Texas — with a combined capacity of about 3,100 people.

All her child’s clothes and blankets were taken for washing, even new items, she said, and the center had no clothes small enough to fit. She tried to wash the child as best she could while sitting on a sofa, because the baby bathtub that was offered was filthy, she wrote.
 
In her statement, Connors said that on Oct. 3 her family was visiting Vancouver, Canada, and did not intend to enter the U.S. Her husband’s cousin, Michael Connors, was driving close to the border, and when an animal suddenly appeared in the lane, he turned onto an unmarked road to avoid a collision.
In moments, multiple police cars and Border Patrol agents appeared.
David and Michael Connors were immediately arrested, she said, despite their protestations of innocence.
“You crossed an international border,” the officer told them.


Sounds to me like the guys didn't have their passports with them when they entered the US - intentionally or unintentionally.

They are lucky we don't treat them like Mexico does when you enter their country accidentally.
 
Can't possibly be true. They are white and everybody knows that Trump's immigration policies only victimize minorities.
 
Can't possibly be true. They are white and everybody knows that Trump's immigration policies only victimize minorities.

Not sure I believe this story. At any rate you cannot illegally come into the country.
 
"Swerved to avoid an animal in the road" & >accidentally< ended up in the US...

Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure.

:roll:
 
The next morning, the couple was told they would be released to a family member in the United States. “It didn’t matter that we told them all we wanted was to go home.”

Later that day, immigration officials said there was a change in plans and they would not be released to a family member. That night, she wrote, immigration agents took the family from their cells, put them in a van and drove — “like an abduction or kidnapping.”

They were taken to a new detention center, where her husband was led from the van to what he later described as a freezing cell. She and the baby, Connors wrote, were taken to a hotel, a Red Roof Inn in Seattle. She had nowhere to boil water for her baby, relying on a microwave.

The next day, the family was taken to the Seattle airport.

“I thought, finally we’re going home.”

Instead, she wrote, the family was flown across the United States to Pennsylvania. They arrived at the Berks center on Oct. 5.

Berks is one of three centers in the county that hold migrant families — the two others are in Texas — with a combined capacity of about 3,100 people.

All her child’s clothes and blankets were taken for washing, even new items, she said, and the center had no clothes small enough to fit. She tried to wash the child as best she could while sitting on a sofa, because the baby bathtub that was offered was filthy, she wrote.

This sounds familiar - has anyone put a pea under this lady's mattress to see what happens?
 
UK family enters States by accident and its Trump fault....oh my.
 
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A couple from England who was visiting Canada and took a wrong turn into the United States — swerving to avoid an animal in the road — has been detained with their 3-month-old baby and shipped to the Berks Detention Center in Leesport, Pa., according to their attorneys.

The baby boy has been subjected to frigid and filthy conditions, developing blotchy skin and what seems to be an eye infection, his mother wrote in a sworn statement. At one point the child was left naked and exposed for several hours in the cold jail, after all his clothes and blankets were taken for washing, she said.

The couple, David Connors, 30, and Eileen Connors, 24, says they were denied the right to contact their embassy.

“We will be traumatized for the rest of our lives by what the United States government has done to us,” Connors wrote in her statement.

Attorney Bridget Cambria, of Aldea – The People’s Justice Center, filed a complaint on behalf of the family with the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the nation’s immigration agencies.


U.K. family held at detention center after accidentally crossing Canadian border into U.S., attorneys say

Whenever government officials are charged with wrongdoing, it should be a matter of standard procedure to hear the charges from one side and the articles of defense from the other side before issuing a verdict. What are we hearing from the government officials in this case?
 
Not sure I believe this story. At any rate you cannot illegally come into the country.

I have issues with the how they entered the US story. They just happened to end up on an unmarked border crossing swerving to miss an animal and there just happened to have been "multiple police cars and Border Patrol agents" on this road with an unmarked border crossing. Seems a bit far-fetched.
 
I have issues with the how they entered the US story. They just happened to end up on an unmarked border crossing swerving to miss an animal and there just happened to have been "multiple police cars and Border Patrol agents" on this road with an unmarked border crossing. Seems a bit far-fetched.

I can drive you down a gravel road past the little aluminum obelisk that marks the border. I haven't gone far down the road but I bet you that now there's multiple Border Patrol agents on it.
 
I can drive you down a gravel road past the little aluminum obelisk that marks the border. I haven't gone far down the road but I bet you that now there's multiple Border Patrol agents on it.

Take some pictures and post it.
 
Horrifying. I really hope ICE doesn’t succeed in disappearing them in the system as it appears they’ve tried to do once already. Congress needs to bring in the ICE Director to answer for this and testify as to their whereabouts and date for release.
 
Take some pictures and post it.

It's a ways away. Out past Abbotsford, BC is the Chilliwack River and at the south end of it is Chilliwack Lake. At the south end of that is a campground called Sapper Park, named for the regiment of Army Engineers that used to be based nearby. And, finally, at the south end of that is the gravel road I described.
Or go down a residential street in my home town, Surrey. The street is 0 Ave. and those aluminum obelisks are along there too. I could cross the street, across the grass verge and be standing on a residential street in Washington state.
 
In her statement, Connors said that on Oct. 3 her family was visiting Vancouver, Canada, and did not intend to enter the U.S. Her husband’s cousin, Michael Connors, was driving close to the border, and when an animal suddenly appeared in the lane, he turned onto an unmarked road to avoid a collision.

In moments, multiple police cars and Border Patrol agents appeared.

David and Michael Connors were immediately arrested, she said, despite their protestations of innocence.

“You crossed an international border,” the officer told them.

Something doesn’t sound right. You don’t accidentally cross the border at Vancouver.
They swerved and ended up in the US.
 
The culprit?

One of these guys in a MAGA hat:

 
Sounds like they were treated the same as every other illegal alien captured crossing the border. I wonder what the outrage would be if the CBP had let the white people go.
 
Can't possibly be true. They are white and everybody knows that Trump's immigration policies only victimize minorities.

Show me one Democrat who has said that - only Republicans who lie have said it, to change the subject.
 
Sounds like they were treated the same as every other illegal alien captured crossing the border. I wonder what the outrage would be if the CBP had let the white people go.

Making it wrong for everyone. Yes, treating only non-white people wrongly is also wrong. Treating everyone wrongly is wrong.
 
I can drive you down a gravel road past the little aluminum obelisk that marks the border. I haven't gone far down the road but I bet you that now there's multiple Border Patrol agents on it.

Now I'm tempted as a US citizen to drive down that road over and over. "Hi, me again".
 
I have issues with the how they entered the US story. They just happened to end up on an unmarked border crossing swerving to miss an animal and there just happened to have been "multiple police cars and Border Patrol agents" on this road with an unmarked border crossing. Seems a bit far-fetched.

It does sound fishy. It might be that they, for example, had 'gone exploring' and changed the story to sound better. Who knows. But unless there's any evidence they were doing wrong - plotting violence for example - the issue is how they were treated.
 
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A couple from England who was visiting Canada and took a wrong turn into the United States — swerving to avoid an animal in the road — has been detained with their 3-month-old baby and shipped to the Berks Detention Center in Leesport, Pa., according to their attorneys.

The baby boy has been subjected to frigid and filthy conditions, developing blotchy skin and what seems to be an eye infection, his mother wrote in a sworn statement. At one point the child was left naked and exposed for several hours in the cold jail, after all his clothes and blankets were taken for washing, she said.

The couple, David Connors, 30, and Eileen Connors, 24, says they were denied the right to contact their embassy.

“We will be traumatized for the rest of our lives by what the United States government has done to us,” Connors wrote in her statement.

Attorney Bridget Cambria, of Aldea – The People’s Justice Center, filed a complaint on behalf of the family with the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the nation’s immigration agencies.


U.K. family held at detention center after accidentally crossing Canadian border into U.S., attorneys say

Keep your identification handy kids and don't "swerve to avoid animals, only to end up in another country illegally"

This is just another "Orange man bad" story for the pile.
 
Keep your identification handy kids and don't "swerve to avoid animals, only to end up in another country illegally"

This is just another "Orange man bad" story for the pile.

But the baby bathtub!

It was filthy!!

Just like in a...

...CONCENTRATION CAMP!!!

:eek: :eek: :eek:
 
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