Hawaii visitor(s) detained, strip-searched, and deported (again!)

[randomq]

Based on women I've known, none of this seems that odd. Life is messy and people don't always make logical decisions, especially in love. How nice (and ironic) that people's personal lives now come under that much more scrutiny.

[Durian Fiend]

Homeland Security
@DHSgov
FACT CHECK: Nicolle Saroukos’s recent long-term trips to the United States and suspicious luggage resulted in her being reasonably selected for secondary screening by CBP.

Officers determined that she was traveling for more than just tourism...

I give up.  What was her nefarious purpose?

[MyManao]

I give up.  What was her nefarious purpose?

Not a bootlicker, like the DHS apologists.

What gets me is how anyone can find taking a person at the point of entry and, unless hey have actually committed a crime, treating them like criminals acceptable. That's unfathomable. And still, like Yak's struggles with giving up our shared vision of a law based democracy.. here we are.. this is us.

[ironyak]

Obie - Australia's Border Security YouTube channel. Seems it worked the same https://youtu.be/DG6_keG-w9Q?si=0mFx_bPfQR06ul6J
lol - wasn't Nicolle Saroukos’s situation pretty similar to Florida Man's with the too many bags and cooking pots? She didn't even bring all the possible ingredients needed for a luau like he did, yet she ended up strip and cavity searched in federal prison and then deported while Florida Man was granted entry to Australia. Maybe Border "Security" doesn't actually work the same in Hawaii?

If you attempt to enter the United States under false pretenses, there are consequences.
That whole DHS message has big Crispy Gnome energy - reality is whatever they say it is. But if they're willing to misstate the law to congress, what chance does a visitor at HNL have?

MM - Not a bootlicker, like the DHS apologists.
Careful there - those that don't learn to heel get taken to the gravel pit and put "down under".

[randomq]

In reality there are so many laws on the books in Hawaii or federally that we are probably all breaking the law every single day. Unfortunately that can lead to some pretty fascist outcomes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_me_th...gainst_him

I don't think there would be such a jack-booted enforcement right now, though, if the flagrant abuse of "requesting asylum" hadn't been encouraged for so many years.

As in many of these issues, our highly paid yet lazy elected officials need to update the laws, so they can be fairly enforced and eliminate loopholes. Assuming the government is still following laws in a few years time.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

In reality there are so many laws on the books in Hawaii or federally that we are probably all breaking the law every single day.

Laws? Who needs laws to get arrested ? (Screenshot from Bluesky as it’s a Washington Post paywall article:

   

[ironyak]

Separate thread with the full story of the Honolulu Police's fake DUIs to help keep PW from collapsing into a singularity :)