Travellers refused travel, deported from US

zell12

UK family "accidentally" cross Canada-USA border, are arrested and deported to UK for being illegal immigrants.
They say:

The family claim they were visiting Vancouver when Michael swerved to avoid hitting an animal following a fishing trip and in the confusion ended up on a country road into America where border police arrested them.
'I was in the back as a passenger but the car swerved suddenly went down a dip and ended up on a road into America.

Cops say:

US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said its evidence contradicted that of the Connors family.
'A vehicle was observed via remote video surveillance system turning west onto Avenue 0 in British Columbia, Canada, at approximately 9pm, October 2.
The vehicle then turned south and entered the US illegally, by slowly and deliberately driving through a ditch onto Boundary Road in Blaine, Washington.
The vehicle travelled west on Boundary Road continuing on the United States side, and was pulled over by a Border Patrol agent a short time later.'

The CBP added two adult family members were previously denied travel authorisation to come to the United States

"During processing, record checks revealed two of the adults were previously denied travel authorization to come to the United States. Attempts were made to return the individuals to Canada, however, Canada refused to allow their return and two attempts to contact the United Kingdom consulate were unsuccessful,"

Ridiculous amount of luggage for a fortnight away.
They also had $16k in cash in the car
Wonder why they were refused visas initially by the US, then Canada refused to take them back
Daily Mail
That British Family Of Border Jumpers Was Probably More Than They Seemed

nullzero

Racists, they were doin no harm to nobody.

pappyodaniel

Travellers be travelling...

CoBo55

Caught rotten, modern times have caught up with these chancers.

Odelay

In before the claims of another traveler bashing thread!

Next, CPB tried to contact the British embassy to see about sending them home. Their call was not returned.

Classic

PinotNero

'I was in the back as a passenger but the car swerved suddenly went down a dip and ended up on a road into America'
:pac::D

padd b1975

pappyodaniel wrote: »

Travellers be travelling...

A first.

padd b1975

PinotNero wrote: »

'I was in the back as a passenger but the car swerved suddenly went down a dip and ended up on a road into America'
:pac::D

And that's the truth Sir!

begsbyOnaTrain

I'm told patrolling your countries borders is racist. Add in the ethnicity of the group involved, and this incident is racist^squared.

Not exactly a massively secure looking part of the border :pac:


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weldoninhio

Should have claimed asylum and AOC would have put them up.

ednwireland

simon reeves documentary last sunday he was do ing a peice to camera on the usa canada border, candian police told him to be carful as american border patrol would pick him up pretty quickly if he crossed the ditch at the edge of the road.

Your Face

They'll be back in time for Brexit.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

If they observed him on video surveilence, surely they can tell whether or not he swerved to avoid an animal or not...?

recyclebin

What's the point of this thread? Do they have to be travellers to enter the USA illegally before you can start a thread about it or what?

Pointless thread. Go troll somewhere else.

whippet

more than likely a record the length of your arm ... hence the refusal in the first place.

16k in working capital to start off a roofing or gutter cleaning business no doubt

zell12

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

If they observed him on video surveilence, surely they can tell whether or not he swerved to avoid an animal or not...?

They saw it crossing the border, read post#1

vehicle then turned south and entered the US illegally, by slowly and deliberately driving through a ditch ..and was pulled over by a Border Patrol agent a short time later

whisky_galore

"You’d think they would be using plastic or at least traveler’s checks."

With a name like Connors, cash is king.

bodhrandude

Off to Gilead with them. :D:D

begsbyOnaTrain

recyclebin wrote: »

What's the point of this thread?

There have been threads before on other Irish people who have deported from the US.

What is it about this one that makes you uncomfortable? Sit down, let's talk about it.

jimgoose

Water-pikeys, most likely. They'd have been a lot better off narrowboating down along the Georgia Strait.

Cee-Jay-Cee

Unfortunately as they have been deported and returned to the UK, there's every likely hood they will be back visiting here in the near future.

Corvo

Straight to Guantanamo Bay, please.

The Satanist

They could do a deal with Donald to put up a few new gutters on the White House

Neyite

Apparently the area where the swerved to avoid a moose and accidentally entered the US is not a part of Canada that actually has any moose.


And such bad luck with the Bureau de Change giving them $16,000 USD for their holiday to Canada instead of $16,000 CAD. What are the chances?

gwalk

**** them hahahahaha

and that other fella from Cork too

Neyite

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

If they observed him on video surveilence, surely they can tell whether or not he swerved to avoid an animal or not...?

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/british-family-detained-after-accidentally-crossing-border-gets-deported-as-video-raises-new-questions-1.4641667


this is the video of them crossing.

Bigbagofcans

gwalk wrote: »

**** them hahahahaha

and that other fella from Cork too

I feel sorry for that fella from Cork after him building a life over there.

gwalk

Bigbagofcans wrote: »

I feel sorry for that fella from Cork after him building a life over there.

I don't,

He lied about a criminal record and overstayed his Visa...

topper75

Bigbagofcans wrote: »

I feel sorry for that fella from Cork after him building a life over there.

Emotion can be applied to anybody who has ignored rules and got caught. In Ireland, being such a small country, emotive appeal is rampant.
You can't run a system designed to process thousands of people on such emotion though. The U.S. do it by the book. Numerically they have to.

Quantum Erasure

ednwireland wrote: »

simon reeves documentary last sunday he was doing a peice to camera on the usa canada border, candian police told him to be carful as american border patrol would pick him up pretty quickly if he crossed the ditch at the edge of the road.

THATS who it it was, i saw that but couldn't remember where, thanks

whisky_galore

Bigbagofcans wrote: »

I feel sorry for that fella from Cork after him building a life over there.

Shouldn't have lied on the forms then, yanks take a dim view of that. If he came clean day 1 and not try to act cute things would be better for him.
Same with this collection of imbeciles and their bullsh1t story. If you're part of a "cultural group" or a big wheel in the GAA, or from a "well respected family" it doesn't wash with them.

Cee-Jay-Cee

They said the four adults and three children, one of them an infant, were "treated like criminals" while held in custody over the past two weeks.

Maybe that’s because they are criminals.

Eileen Connors, 24, says the conditions her family, including three-month-old son, have been in are filthy and cold with broken bathrooms.

So just like home then.