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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.”
I'm not buying her story. I'm not saying she is a bad person or a security threat but I don't believe she was lost. It doesn't pass the sniff test. You're young, in a foreign land, you're going to map out your jog. If nothing else to prevent getting lost.
She could have done that and still gotten lost. I have a horrible sense of direction, especially in places without many road signs or if there are lots of twists and turns in the route. This easily could've happened to me, though I always do carry ID.
Common sense is an oxymoron. Didn't you know that?
I suspect things like this happen every day, and that the "guilty" parties include citizens from both the US and Canada. God forbid that this kind of detainment and fuss become the normal way of dealing with them.
They should have just got an interpreter, checked out her story and saved the US Taxpayer thousands of dollars, which is what it would cost to detain someone for two weeks. Furthermore it would have saved the girl a lot of heartache and upset.
I really do worry about the common sense of some people employed by Government Agencies.
They had every opportunity to simply check her story with her mother who lived perfectly legally nearby, rather than detain her for 2 weeks.
She crossed an unmarked border while jogging, which is different to crossing clearly marked borders for illegal reasons.
You don’t get it. The issue lies with Canada. They have to allow her to be readmitted to Canada, in the meantime the US is stuck with her until Canada agreed to allow her to return. As I have succinctly stated earlier, if BP took her to the border crossing Canada Border Services Agency CBSA would turn her back to the US since she has no documentation to support her story about her legal entry to Canada. The issue resides with Canada and until they say ok, the US was stuck with her.
She could have done that and still gotten lost. I have a horrible sense of direction, especially in places without many road signs or if there are lots of twists and turns in the route. This easily could've happened to me, though I always do carry ID.
First, I was simply stating what most likely happened, in my opinion. Not making any declarations that it happened like that.
Second, she was taking photos. That is usually done these days with a smartphone, which usually has plenty of other identifying information on it.
It's with lazy officals who couldn't bothered to check out a young girls story rather than International Law.
Point the finger at Canada.
The US acted appropriately.
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