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shallanelprin) wrote2007-09-18 03:37 pm
shallanelprin) wrote2007-09-18 03:37 pm
Power crazy government officials
I am sick to death of everything about the US government right now. How the hell do people get away with this?
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The woman is a musical scholar who has lived and worked in the US for the last ten years. This is just...infuriating. "To create a more perfect union" my ass. You know what, I'm okay with not being totally secure. I'd rather have liberty than this.
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Ms. Ghuman’s descent into the bureaucratic netherworld began on Aug. 8, 2006, when she and Mr. Flight returned to San Francisco from a research trip to Britain. Armed immigration officers met them at the airplane door and escorted Ms. Ghuman away.
In a written account of the next eight hours that she prepared for her lawyer, Ms. Ghuman said that officers tore up her H-1B visa, which was valid through May 2008, defaced her British passport, and seemed suspicious of everything from her music cassettes to the fact that she had listed Welsh as a language she speaks. A redacted government report about the episode obtained by her lawyer under the Freedom of Information Act erroneously described her as "Hispanic."
The woman is a musical scholar who has lived and worked in the US for the last ten years. This is just...infuriating. "To create a more perfect union" my ass. You know what, I'm okay with not being totally secure. I'd rather have liberty than this.