{"id":132886,"date":"2025-04-08T02:14:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T02:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/is-it-safe-to-visit-the-us-podcast-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-04-08T02:14:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T02:14:05","slug":"is-it-safe-to-visit-the-us-podcast-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/is-it-safe-to-visit-the-us-podcast-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it safe to visit the US? \u2013 podcast – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adam Gabbatt reports on the visa and green card-holders being held in US detention centres
\u201cBorder Patrol always had the right to grill people trying to enter the US, right,\u201d Guardian US reporter Adam Gabbatt<\/strong> tells Michael Safi<\/strong>. \u201cBut from what we can tell now, Border Patrol agents are now much more likely to basically get into people\u2019s business, so to search people\u2019s devices, particularly mobile phones, and there seems to have been a real spike in the number of people being questioned and now detained. We\u2019ve seen that with tourists, but also people on green cards and working visas.\u201d
One of those people was Jasmine Mooney<\/strong>, a Canadian entrepreneur<\/a> who had travelled to the US on a work visa many times.
When Jasmine travelled to the US in March<\/a>, an officer questioned her on her previous issues getting a visa granted and she was told she would need to reapply for a visa through the consulate.
\u201cShe goes: You didn\u2019t do anything wrong. You\u2019re not in trouble. You are not a criminal. And she was being so nice at this point, and it was so odd but now, when I look back, I\u2019m like: Oh, she knew it was about to happen to me.\u201d
When the officer told Jasmine she would be sent back to Canada, Jasmine assumed she would just need to book herself a flight home. Instead, she was detained and sent to an Ice detention centre for two weeks.
\u201cThis guard took me,\u201d Jasmine tells Michael. \u201cHands me this little mat and this aluminum foil thing that I\u2019ve never seen before. And she goes, this is your blanket. And I\u2019m like: What do you mean? That\u2019s my blanket? And then they open like, it\u2019s jail. It is a jail cell exactly like you see on the movies. This tiny little cement cell with an open toilet. There were five other girls in there.\u201d
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Adam Gabbatt reports on the visa and green card-holders being held in US detention centres\u201cBorder Patrol always had the right to grill people trying to enter the US, right,\u201d Guardian US reporter Adam Gabbatt tells Michael Safi. \u201cBut from what we can tell now, Border Patrol agents are now much more likely to basically get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}