French woman jogs over border in Wash. state, is detained 2 weeks (Canada, fence)

[Badger]

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/fre...-weeks-report/
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...eeks-1.4717060



The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reports that Cedella Roman, 19, was jogging along the beach in White Rock, just north of the border. After taking a photo, Roman had reportedly turned and started jogging north when two border patrol officers detained her.

The teenager, who was visiting her mother who lives in nearby North Delta, had not brought any ID with her for her jog, but still tried to explain the situation to the border patrol.

“I told him I had not done it on purpose, and that I didn’t understand what was happening,” Roman recalled, by saying she had not seen any warning signs.

Nevertheless, she was detained and transferred over 100 miles away to the Tacoma Northwest Detention Center, run by the Department of Homeland Security.

“They put me in the caged vehicles and brought me into their facility,” she said. “They asked me to remove all my personal belongings with my jewellery, they searched me everywhere.”

“Then I understood it was getting very serious, and I started to cry a bit,” Roman recounted.

“It was just unfair that there was nothing, no sign at the border,” said her mother. “It’s like a trap … anybody can be caught at the border like this.”


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I guess she forgot to check her White European Privilege at the unmarked border.


thoughts?

[LordSquidworth]

Disgusting.

[LifeIsGood01]

It's not surprising with this administration of hate and intimidation.

[Biker53]

Anyone who is going to go jogging near the border and chooses to do so without any identification can't complain when border patrol has no way of identifying who or what she is. Terrorists and criminals don't announce their true status. My guess is that there were signs but she didn't pay attention to any of them.

[ohhwanderlust]

Originally Posted by Biker53

Anyone who is going to go jogging near the border and chooses to do so without any identification can't complain when border patrol has no way of identifying who or what she is. Terrorists and criminals don't announce their true status. My guess is that there were signs but she didn't pay attention to any of them.

So...guilty until proven innocent?

[Retroit]

A wall or fence would have prevented this.

[BruSan]

Originally Posted by Retroit

A wall or fence would have prevented this.

And the U.S. can pay for it.

[emm74]

I see people are commenting without bothering to read the article. Go ahead and look and you'll see exactly how clear the border marking was.

Spoiler alert: it's basically invisible

I'm also curious how this black woman failed to exercise her white European privilege. And yes, there are plenty of Europeans who are not white

[BobNJ1960]

Originally Posted by Retroit

A wall or fence would have prevented this.

[EastwardBound]

Originally Posted by Biker53

Anyone who is going to go jogging near the border and chooses to do so without any identification can't complain when border patrol has no way of identifying who or what she is. Terrorists and criminals don't announce their true status. My guess is that there were signs but she didn't pay attention to any of them.

This ^^