Australian with work visa deported

[Anonymous]

Look at how shabbily the Border Patrol/ICE have treated visitors to this country.

German tourist:
https://apnews.com/article/border-tourists-german-canadian-detention-immigration-408cd27338e8065268fabc835f8b0c34

Canadian actress with a work permit:
https://www.newsweek.com/jasmine-mooney-immigration-lawyer-2046328

Other cases:

*Rebecca Burke, a British artist, was detained during a North American trip and held for three weeks in Washington State, facing questions about her visa.

*Two German tourists were detained and deported after entering the U.S. from Mexico, with unclear reasons for their detention.

*A woman from Canada was detained at the border after her husband was detained in a traffic stop.

*A girl from India was detained for overstaying her student visa by three days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Now they're deporting Australians. Why???

Nothing makes sense.

Also, where does Kristi Noem find all the sadists?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/11/australian-with-us-working-visa-detained-insulted-deported

It is based on Australia being a former penal colony. They all have a criminal history!

Oh and the Australians are thinking about canceling US nuclear submarines orders to be replaced by French submarines.

[Anonymous]

I am a naturalized US citizen and my dad is a green card holder. Dad isn’t flying anywhere for sure; I don’t think I am, either.
But one thing is clear: I should not have any even slightly weird items on me. No urns, no tattoos, no frog embryos (yes a real case of a white woman on a visa), etc etc.
Stay safe everyone and let’s hope it’s only 4 years. I’ve lived something similar in my country 20-30 years ago so I have a bit more immunity than most Americans but I am starting to get unnerved too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Now they're deporting Australians. Why???

Nothing makes sense.

Also, where does Kristi Noem find all the sadists?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/11/australian-with-us-working-visa-detained-insulted-deported

The article doesn't say why his visa was canceled, but does contain a fair amount of unsubstantiated quotations that beg credulity (as if they were enhanced by The Guardian article author).

Also, in a decision on Bourfa v. Mayorkas, the court unanimously affirmed the secretary’s discretion to cancel approved immigration petitions “for what he deems to be good and sufficient cause” under 8 United States Code (USC) §1155, with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson delivering the court’s opinion.

They don't "beg credulity" at all. You're a moron living in denial.

PP, I don’t disagree with your assessment, but I fear that poster is more than that. I really think someone from the administration — or perhaps from a pro-Trump think tank — has, as part of their job, the duty to monitor DCUM and post here. Do we really think the typical DCUM poster would be citing Mayorkas and the USC off the top like that? This person is U.S. based, is probably an lawyer, and has a specific style which is pretty recognizable.

I am the least likely conspiracy theorist around and I have been thinking exactly this!

Why would they waste time here arguing on DCUM when they have the White House and Congress?

Seems like some folks don't like having their opinions challenged

To them it is their job. So it is not wasting time. These are true believers in the cult.

[Anonymous]

The problem is rules were never enforced so now that rules are being enforced people are getting upset.

If you come on a working visa you have to continue to maintain you do not have an intent to stay permanently in the US. He had been in the US "for a better part of a decade". It sounds from the article he intended to make his life in the US.


The article says Jonathan says the official suggested he was carrying human remains and sent for Centers for Disease Control agents to assess the empty ashes urn. He says when he explained he had been living in the US for more than five years, he was asked: “Oh you live here, do you?”

Jonathan says: “Then he told me I didn’t have the right visa – apparently saying I lived there showed that I had intent to stay and not leave.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a naturalized US citizen and my dad is a green card holder. Dad isn’t flying anywhere for sure; I don’t think I am, either.
But one thing is clear: I should not have any even slightly weird items on me. No urns, no tattoos, no frog embryos (yes a real case of a white woman on a visa), etc etc.
Stay safe everyone and let’s hope it’s only 4 years. I’ve lived something similar in my country 20-30 years ago so I have a bit more immunity than most Americans but I am starting to get unnerved too.

It's a good idea not to come to the US right now, even as a tourist.

And don't fly even if you are here legally.

[Anonymous]

if he's deporting white people what kind of america does he want??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:he probably has brown skin. That’s all he needed to have

No last name but they've been doing the same to white European tourists so why not?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:he probably has brown skin. That’s all he needed to have

Or is Asian.

To MAGA, that is a red flag.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The problem is rules were never enforced so now that rules are being enforced people are getting upset.

If you come on a working visa you have to continue to maintain you do not have an intent to stay permanently in the US. He had been in the US "for a better part of a decade". It sounds from the article he intended to make his life in the US.


The article says Jonathan says the official suggested he was carrying human remains and sent for Centers for Disease Control agents to assess the empty ashes urn. He says when he explained he had been living in the US for more than five years, he was asked: “Oh you live here, do you?”

Jonathan says: “Then he told me I didn’t have the right visa – apparently saying I lived there showed that I had intent to stay and not leave.”

I don't understand your rationalization. His visa was not expired. When I did a semester abroad in Spain, I said I "lived" there. What in the world is your point? What rule?

Who are you actually trying to save America for?

The reason you and the other PP - maybe you are the same person - sound like you are in the Trump administration is because you are rationalizing actions taken by the this horrific and sadistic administration after the fact. You sound like you are feeding chat gpt and lamely coming up with explanations that you don't fully understand.

No intelligent and sincere person thinks that this behavior is making our country safer or better off. You are ruining the tourist industry and deporting innocent people. You will be villains in the History books. Your children grandchildren will revile you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is terrible. He had all the right papers.

No foreigner in their right mind would come here now.

I would not come here to study; I would not stay here and work with any kind of visa.

I would leave right now. The USA is no longer safe for visitors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The problem is rules were never enforced so now that rules are being enforced people are getting upset.

If you come on a working visa you have to continue to maintain you do not have an intent to stay permanently in the US. He had been in the US "for a better part of a decade". It sounds from the article he intended to make his life in the US.


The article says Jonathan says the official suggested he was carrying human remains and sent for Centers for Disease Control agents to assess the empty ashes urn. He says when he explained he had been living in the US for more than five years, he was asked: “Oh you live here, do you?”

Jonathan says: “Then he told me I didn’t have the right visa – apparently saying I lived there showed that I had intent to stay and not leave.”

lol yes Trump the law enforcer who breaks the law and subverts the constitution!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:if he's deporting white people what kind of america does he want??

A scared populace. That’s what dictators want.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The problem is rules were never enforced so now that rules are being enforced people are getting upset.

If you come on a working visa you have to continue to maintain you do not have an intent to stay permanently in the US. He had been in the US "for a better part of a decade". It sounds from the article he intended to make his life in the US.


The article says Jonathan says the official suggested he was carrying human remains and sent for Centers for Disease Control agents to assess the empty ashes urn. He says when he explained he had been living in the US for more than five years, he was asked: “Oh you live here, do you?”

Jonathan says: “Then he told me I didn’t have the right visa – apparently saying I lived there showed that I had intent to stay and not leave.”

I don't understand your rationalization. His visa was not expired. When I did a semester abroad in Spain, I said I "lived" there. What in the world is your point? What rule?

Who are you actually trying to save America for?

The reason you and the other PP - maybe you are the same person - sound like you are in the Trump administration is because you are rationalizing actions taken by the this horrific and sadistic administration after the fact. You sound like you are feeding chat gpt and lamely coming up with explanations that you don't fully understand.

No intelligent and sincere person thinks that this behavior is making our country safer or better off. You are ruining the tourist industry and deporting innocent people. You will be villains in the History books. Your children grandchildren will revile you.

You studied in Spain for a semester. If you had been there "the better part of a decade" and said you lived there and that you were bringing your sister's urn to Spain there is a good chance that Spain would think you never intended to leave.

There aren't words to describe how much I despise Trump but we need to find a credible sympathetic immigrant who is deported. This story isn't even verified. That is the only way most of the US will care. No more El Salvadorans or Venezuelans who may or may not be gang members, students who had anything to do with encampments, doctors who go to Hamas funerals, students on visas who have been fingerprinted because they were speeding recklessly, had DUI's etc.

We need to find a story from a sympathetic appearing immigrant not from the Middle East or Latin America whose story is airtight. Maybe a veteran or Irish immigrant? Physically attractive? An immigrant who rescued a child from a fire? This sounds so wacky since most of these cases are appalling but most of America simply doesn't care unless they can relate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:if he's deporting white people what kind of america does he want??

Billionaires on private jets.