The business administration student arrived in the U.S. from Colombia in 2022, De Bremaeker said. He said she overstayed her visa and applied for asylum based on experiencing “severe gender-based violence” in her home country, an application that is still pending. She had a valid work permit, De Bremaeker said, and had attended San Jose City College before transferring to Berkeley where she was conducting research on artificial intelligence.
On Friday night, her boyfriend Anthony said, the couple had arrived early at the airport for a weekend getaway that he hoped would help take Albornoz Hernandez’s mind off her heavy course load. They were waiting in the gate area, he said, when an ICE agent in plain clothes approached Albornoz Hernandez and asked her name, saying she looked familiar. Without identifying himself as working for ICE, the agent guessed a couple of different names, Anthony said, to which Albornoz Hernandez said no.
The third time, Anthony said, he guessed right. Once Albornoz Hernandez confirmed her name, ICE agents separated the couple, then told Albornoz Hernandez that her visa was expired and they were going to detain her, Anthony said. …
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Albornoz Hernandez spent most of the weekend at Stockton Detention Center, De Bremaeker said, before being taken to California City, a facility northeast of Los Angeles where earlier this year, a court-ordered investigation found major flaws in the medical care provided to people detained there.
A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security confirmed by email that ICE agents had detained Albornoz Hernandez at SFO.
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There is ZERO reason to have a facility in California City. Zero.
They want it be away from any population centers so no one bothers them.
Booking flights for recreation when you already overstay a visa WHILE THE USA ARE DOING EVERYTHING LAST YEAR is really mind blowing stupid. Like fuck ICE etc. but do you really need to directly go to them on your own? Hope she will be okay and get out of this without any permanent damage. Fucking hell how dense some people are.
It’s a recurring theme that is absolutely baffling to me. Like absolutely ICE is out of line and every one of them should be put to death, but if you’re a mouse and see a sign that says “pit full of hungry cats ahead” and the cat in chief is doing hitler salutes on stage maybe it’s not a good idea to walk straight into the hungry cat pit with your ID stapled to your forehead?
It’s almost as baffling as you somehow not understanding that she had applied for asylum, meaning she already had to hand ICE paperwork with her home address, place of work, etc. on it, because that’s the only way people are allowed to apply for asylum. There is no reason she should have been detained just for trying to use a plane, especially for a fucking domestic flight.
Nah, this take is bullshit, she wasn’t a fugitive, she had a pending asylum application that was going to result in a hearing she’d have to attend where ICE agents would have had the same opportunity to kidnap her they did here. Fact is that asylum application is a total response to their visa overstay claim that should have preempted any attempt by ICE to do an enforcement action off of that claim but our legal system is total bullshit that lets ICE get away with all sorts of totally unnecessary violence.
can’t believe so many on lemmy would support victim blaming. thought lemmy would be better than this.
It’s not.
It’s like the Democratic party, it’s the best possible option but that certainly doesn’t mean it’s always great
I missed the part about a pending application, so that’s my bad. When I misread the article I thought it was an application after the fact, not pending.
So that’s my bad, she was fucked either way
Edit your prior comment with this admission then if you’re so remorseful
I commented elsewhere but I’ll update the top level one, Ty for the reminder
victim blaming
Edit:
I missed the part about a pending application, so that’s my bad. When I misread the article I thought it was an application after the fact, not pending.
So that’s my bad, she was fucked either way
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Yes, and? You’re not convincing unless you elaborate more when the situation is nuanced.
There’s nuance to many situations, especially when the victim has some control over their incident. If you jump off a cruise ship in the middle of the ocean and drown, you’re gonna get some of the blame. If you’re driving 70 in a 25, lose control of your car, and wrap around a tree you’re gonna catch some blame.
It’s stupid to give ICE a reason in America (more than just being brown). Idk why they would go on a vacation via airplane while overstaying a VISA, and then let a stranger play 20 questions with them on their identity.
For a lack of better words, you’re a dickhead for this statement.
Get some better words then, you’re not convincing me of anything with insults
At some point, you gotta take responsibility for being an idiot. Fuck ICE but man is it asking for it by presenting them a real reason to arrest you and then going to an airport where your identity and documentation is known to be heavily scrutinized.
I hope you get to spend some time in the detention center yourself so you can realize it doesn’t matter one bit how smart you are about it. They will lock you up without any due process anyways just because they want to.
Must be nice living in a world where you don’t have take any accountability.
In this instance, it 100% mattered how they went about it. We don’t know that she’d be caught otherwise, and I don’t want her to be, but ringing their doorbell and admitting to being an actual “illegal immigrant” is pants-on-head stupid.
Yet again, you are displaying your inability to be a normal person. If we lived in a world where people should take accountability, we wouldn’t be bagging up harmless students because of stupid paperwork bullshit for a pedophile rapist president.
You genuinely deserve to be abused in an American concentration camp and I say that knowing every single crime they love to commit in there.
