Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained
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Originally from Germany, Fabian Schmidt was stopped on his way home from Luxembourg, questioned, and held in Rhode Island.

Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.

  • floofloof@lemmy.ca
    211·
    1 day ago

    Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.

    She said Schmidt told her immigration agents pressured him to give up his green card. She said he was placed on a mat in a bright room with other people at the airport, with little food or water, suffered sleep deprivation, and was denied access to his medication for anxiety and depression.

    “He hardly got anything to drink. And then he wasn’t feeling very well and he collapsed,” said Senior.

    He was transported by ambulance to Mass General Hospital. He didn’t know it at the time, but he also had influenza.

    Other countries need to start issuing advisories against traveling to the USA. And residents of the USA need to understand that it’s not safe for them to try to re-enter their country.

    • SuperCub@sh.itjust.worksOP
      811·
      1 day ago

      I agree. I know there are tens of thousands of international travelers entering the US daily and he was a single case, but the question remains, why? The article mentions a DUI on his record from a decade ago as well as a marijuana possession charge that was dismissed when legalization passed. So, is that literally it? It’s fucking insane that they are violating his rights like this and fucking torturing him.

      • SuperCub@sh.itjust.worksOP
        13·
        12 hours ago

        Being that he renewed his Green Card recently, it would make no sense that his very minor record would pose any issue, otherwise the government could have denied his renewal.