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Re:French scientist denied entry into the U.S., French gover... by klipt on Thursday March 20, 2025 @02:10PM (#43426798)
Looking at the stories it seems much safer to fly in than cross the land border.

This French guy flew in and was turned around. Unpleasant but much less unpleasant than the Canadian woman who crossed the land border from Mexico and was imprisoned in a for-profit prison for weeks while begging repeatedly to pay for a flight back to Canada (then after she was released, ICE claimed she would have been released earlier if they'd known she'd pay for her flight...)

Re:French scientist denied entry into the U.S., French gover... by briandear on Thursday March 20, 2025 @02:39PM (#43427216)
She crossed from Mexico because she had been denied entry previously at another crossing.
Re:French scientist denied entry into the U.S., French gover... by tim333 on Thursday March 20, 2025 @03:21PM (#43427718)
From her story

>He asked why I had gone to the San Diego border the second time to apply. I explained that that was where my lawyer’s offices were, and that he had wanted to accompany me to ensure there were no issues.

Re:French scientist denied entry into the U.S., French gover... by chrisco255 on Thursday March 20, 2025 @03:44PM (#43427979)
When you apply for entry into a country after a denial, you do so from outside the country.
Re:French scientist denied entry into the U.S., French gover... by square_usual on Thursday March 20, 2025 @04:28PM (#43428518)
Are you her lawyer?
Re:French scientist denied entry into the U.S., French gover... by krowek on Friday March 21, 2025 @03:48AM (#43432838)
Your comment is out of context, but to add to the case, yes that's how you do it. You don't need to be a lawyer to know this, you can consult one.
Re:French scientist denied entry into the U.S., French gover... by tim333 on Friday March 21, 2025 @05:11AM (#43433415)
Mexico is outside the US. My guess is she fibbed on the form in some way. Or they thought she did.
Re:French scientist denied entry into the U.S., French gover... by ziddoap on Thursday March 20, 2025 @02:52PM (#43427390)
Does that justify the two weeks of detainment in a for-profit prison?
Re:French scientist denied entry into the U.S., French gover... by wdr1 on Thursday March 20, 2025 @07:05PM (#43430080)
He didn't say at at all it justified.

As someone not familiar with the case, I personally did find it pertinent information.

Re:French scientist denied entry into the U.S., French gover... by jajko on Thursday March 20, 2025 @02:50PM (#43427367)
Which in normal moral fair society doesn't change anything. But US treats other nationalities like subhumans, and thats not even the issue of current administration but a long term situation for at least 2 decades I keep following the topic.

But as long as its not happening to them or their closest ones US folks generally don't seem to care (enough). I don't think EU has it any better just to be clear, we humans seem to be generally deeply flawed creatures.

Re:French scientist denied entry into the U.S., French gover... by seec on Saturday March 22, 2025 @10:02AM (#43445686)
Treating people from other countries as a threat either politically or economically has nothing to do with think they are subhuman.

In fact, if it was actually what they thought they would allow entry to them for exploitation, because a subhuman cannot reason or compete properly right?

It's funny that the real bigots are realizing that plenty of people have had enough of the racist moralist and that they would rather had tightly controlled entry to their country.

In the case of the article, it's quite funny, because the guy was apparently a political dissident, one that does not even live in the country (so what he has to say is not only irrelevant but also dangerous because he won't have to bear the weight of his choices/propaganda).

Of course, this nonsense come from people complaining about Musk meddling in German politics. Before you can complain about others behavior, you need to fix yours so that it at least matches your stated ideal.