Detained for 3 Weeks for Overstaying 11 Hours?

Boiler · April 22, 2015

But you can't on VWP. Time spent in Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean all count against your 90 days. Harsh? Fair? That's not my point, and I can't really speak to that. But them's the breaks.

Maybe someone at the border on one of the "runs" didn't notice, and accidentally gave her a fresh 90 day stamp (but it still wouldn't have counted because it was from Canada) or she did it at a period of time that she was within 90 days. But clearly....if the end result here is a 10 year ban.....she wasn't doing this legitimately and overstayed her VWP by a very long time just like at a *minimum* 40% of other illegal immigrants have done.

So why does she get all the moral outrage on her behalf? Change her situation and her demographic ever so slightly and the folks in the comments section would have gladly run her out of the country themselves. And why doesn't the media seem to care about legal immigrants suffering the system, only publishing the self-inflicted sob stories of illegal immigrants (she's not the first and she won't be the last)? It's maddening.

It was HuffPo, they love illegals of all shapes and sizes. Who would do the gardening or cleaning?

Pennycat · April 22, 2015

It was HuffPo, they love illegals of all shapes and sizes. Who would do the gardening or cleaning?

The moral outrage was in reference to the comments section who, as I mentioned before, seem to be outraged that they'd deport her instead of all those Mexicans. The media attention is obvious. Most media outlets cover sob stories generally and illegal immigrants' sob stories are no different. Some are more prone than this to other. So as others have astutely noted. ... there's an ugly reason behind the comments section does not consider her illegal or at the very least give her the benefit of the doubt to the point believe her very thin and frankly absurd story.