Beloved Australian Children's Author Detained by Immigration, Left Sobbing

[nolabear]

AUSTRALIA’S best-loved children’s author, Mem Fox, was left sobbing and shaken after being detained for two hours and aggressively interrogated by immigration officials at Los Angeles airport.

Fox says she’s unlikely to ever travel to the United States again after being made to feel like “a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay”.

President Donald Trump had created the climate for this sort of behaviour, she said, adding: “This is what happens when extremists take power.”



http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/accused-of-having-an-incorrect-visa-mem-fox-detained-by-immigration-officials-at-la-airport/news-story/aa712d3867d1509c52c3608798e19db5

We are going to be rejected by the rest of the world if this madman has his way, and he'll use it to justify his actions.

[Wounded Bear]

1. Tourism is already down, by most reports I've read...

It sucks.

[gopiscrap]

2. Just one more example of the mess that the trumpenfurher is causing

I have my own immigration narrative that I will share when I feel it is safe to share

[MFM008]

3. I would apologize

to this poor person on behalf of all of us who feel the same way.

[ismnotwasm]

4. Didn't I read that tourism is already down?

Stories like this are going to hamper the tourism industry thoroughly.

Oh edit--the link wants a suscription to read the article

[HipChick]

6. Yep..all of my Euro friends have cancelled their trip

First time in 10yrs...

[Demit]

5. Unfortunately your article is behind a paywall. Here's a better link.

Apparently this happened sometime before February 9th, the date she was scheduled to speak at a literary conference in Milwaukee:

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/accused-of-having-an-incorrect-visa-mem-fox-detained-by-immigration-officials-at-la-airport/news-story/aa712d3867d1509c52c3608798e19db5