Harrowing tale of an American woman caught up in UK border security. And, yes, it mirrors other tales I've heard of folk caught up in US border security.
As she sums up:
'This is the system we asked for. We thought it wouldn’t apply to “us.” We built it to keep Them out, to keep Us safe. But how quickly that system turns and engulfs the ones we love. Then it’s not “Us vs Them.” It’s Us vs Ourselves.
[…] The next time a politician starts talking about “cracking down on the borders,” remember that they are asking to gamble with your own rights and the rights of good well-meaning people.'
WTFUK
People have been asking me what happened when I didn’t show up to give my talk on the Web Animations API at Smashing Oxford. Here I’m…
57 view(s)
I have a friend who was denied access to the US when using a diplomatic passport, because it was the version from two weeks earlier. Took the state department several hours to sort it out.