Australian man arrested in US for overstaying visa by 90 minutes

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A Canberra man has been imprisoned by immigration officials in the United States for overstaying his US visa by less than two hours, after being denied entry to Canada.

Baxter Reid, 26, and his American girlfriend, Heather Kancso, travelled to the Canadian border in upstate New York before Mr Reid was arrested by US border police on Sunday, April 24 local time.

Mr Reid is now imprisoned at Buffalo Federal Detention Centre where he could face six months in jail before his case is heard by a judge.

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http://www.smh.com.au/act-news/australian-man-arrested-in-us-for-overstaying-visa-by-one-hour-20170501-gvw3yh.html

[uppityperson]

1. That's sick

[tanyev]

2. Trump really doesn't need to build a physical wall.

We're quickly getting to the point where nobody will want to come here as long as he's president.

[Warpy]

4. I'm getting to the point that *I* don't want to be here until he's gone

His performance on Saturday in front of a bunch of Storm Front types was scary.

It CAN happen here. It is happening here.

[Equinox Moon]

3. We have serious problems in this country!

[McCamy Taylor]

5. There goes tourism.

[dalton99a]

6. Braindead stupid

[HeartachesNhangovers]

7. Sounds like Canada screwed him:

"For some reason the Canadians kept them until 1:30am and then they refused them entry." And they're both Commonwealth countries (Canada & Australia).

Canadian officials knew exactly what would happen if they refused him entry and sent him back to US immigration with an expired visa. US immigration can't ignore what a visa says. If you overstay by an hour and a half, it may as well be a month.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

9. Canadian immigration has it in for the english speaking Southern Hemisphere

Australians and South Africans get a really rough go of it from them.

[HeartachesNhangovers]

10. Well I guess he should have planned accordingly

and ducked into Mexico to do the visa shuffle, instead of showing up with 2 hours to go on his visa and expecting prompt Canadian service. Dang! I show up more than 2 hours ahead of time for domestic flights.

[Doreen]

8. YUP

[Sunlei]

11. six months in jail before he even gets to see a Judge. detention 'for profits' love republicans.

about $18,000 revenue to earn from one man alone. jail can probably feed & water him for $3.00 a day, maybe less.

[BSdetect]

12. Why Australia is now home to the sixth largest American population in the world

http://www.smh.com.au/national/why-australia-is-now-home-to-the-sixth-largest-american-population-in-the-world-20150512-ggznm3.html

Gee, he could have done so much harm in those 90 minutes right at the border.

Maybe deface a sign or two?

[Lee-Lee]

13. He set himself up for that

Crossing out of the country with 2 hours left on a visa without having his affairs in order to enter Canada was stupid.

I never cut my travel down to minutes left on a visa, that's idiocy because you have to allow for delays. And I don't try to go into countries without being 100% my travel affairs and paperwork are in order.

Had he done either of those two things above he wouldn't be in the mess.

But once he was turned back at the Canadian border US officials had no choice to to take him into custody. No valid visa is no valid visa be it 12 minutes or 12 days or 12 weeks.