Please USA is not safe. They are luck not to have just been disappeared.
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So he was coming to the USA to do sex work, which is illegal. Did he think he was above the law?
They didn't know that until they had already decided he was "suspect" and detained him. His stated reason, which was legitimate, was that he was attending an awards ceremony on official business. Detaining someone without cause is illegal and a rights violation, even if you later find "evidence" of a crime.
Also, escort work in not illegal in all areas, so this is like detaining someone for planning to visit a weed shop in Colorado.
The journalists at lgbtqnation seem to think it's illegal.
According to U.S. travel law, any individual coming to the U.S. to engage in prostitution or who has done so in the past 10 years is prohibited from entry. Travelers found inadmissible due to sex work can be banned from entry for up to ten years, as is the case with Myles.
Escorting is not prostitution.
You absolutely cannot argue against it being a grey area though, there are plenty of 'escorts' that are just prosititutes with extra steps.
Granted, I don't have anything against sex workers — I just don't think your argument is very strong when it boils down to 'I didn't have sex with him because he paid me, I had sex with him because of this beautiful platinum necklace he bought me! Totally different.'
The point is escorting often isn't about sex.
You hire a prostitute specifically for the sex. You hire an escort for the company, often as eye candy, but an escort may very well deny you sex.
i’m pretty sure receiving an award for making adult videos is not illegal sex work.
making porn isn’t illegal either, but that’s not why he was traveling there.
Do you think that you’re above basic literacy?
I guess you missed this part of the literature.
“This officer decided to be a lot more thorough with his search and interrogation. After about two hours of intense interrogation, he found evidence that I do porn on my personal phone. Then, over the next two hours found evidence of escorting on my other phone.”
Miles keeps a second phone specifically for professional calls and texts.
“While searching my second phone, which was dead, they charged it up and found text conversations I had with past clients. They banned me based on previous text message conversations with clients, confirming that I had met up with clients in the past.”
Miles added, “I was having text message conversations with potential clients in Vegas, but no solid plans had been made to meet with any clients in Vegas.”
He made a point to differentiate between the escort work he provides and prostitution.
I guess you missed this part of the text:
He made a point to differentiate between the escort work he provides and prostitution.
“Escorting is an exchange of money for time spent with an individual. For example, most of my clients are looking for ‘the boyfriend’ experience. Or someone to go to dinner with. Prostitution is an exchange of money for sexual services. There was never any evidence of prostitution on my phone, only escorting.”
You're right, you need to go to a buddy's island for that kind of thing to be ok.