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German tattoo artist Jessica Brösche, 26, is indefinitely detained by ICE after being denied entry at the San Diego border from Tijuana.

Despite possessing a valid German passport, visa waiver, and return ticket to Berlin, she underwent secondary inspection and spent days in detention, including eight in solitary confinement.

Accused of planning to violate the terms of the visa waiver by working in Los Angeles as a tattoo artist, her ordeal is described as "like a horror movie.”

Brösche‘s friend Amelia Lofving was finally able to track her down and visited after 25 days.

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[–] yesman@lemmy.world 11 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

I feel sorry for this woman, but this is the second article I've seen about this blonde and you can imagine that there are hundreds of thousands of brown-eyed women going though that and worse who aren't "worthy victims".

[–] Squirrelsdrivemenuts@lemmy.world 11 points 4 hours ago

I'm just hoping this story will reach more people because she is a western european (nothing to do with looks or gender) and will get people to pay attention to all the horrible stuff happening to a lot of people in these detention centers.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 45 points 8 hours ago

The value of this case is to make exactly your point: "if they're doing this to German tourists just imagine what they do to people from other less privileged nationalities". It shows the depth of the depravity.

(That there are hypocrites who would be content so long as this only happens to "those" people and not to white women is of course a given.)