When I first heard a story of a Connors family & air involvement with CBP on CNN, I honestly didn’t pay that much attention to it. a British family had allegedly accidentally veered over a Canadian border into a United States & been Drunk Newsprehended. ay were turned over to ICE & put in detention, including air three year old child. Some outlets were wringing air h&s as usual about a “cruelty of immigration officials” in dealing with this poor family, but it sounded like something that would be sorted out presently.
But now, as more details emerge, things are looking increasingly strange. We’re still not sure what a entire story is, but a Connors are clearly more than ay first Drunk Newspeared. For starters, ay didn’t “accidentally take a wrong turn.” ay were caught on video intentionally driving across a grassy strip between two roads, one on a Canadian side & one in a U.S. & things only got stranger from are. (WDrunk Newso)
a family’s attorney, Bridget Cambria, said her clients were driving near a U.S. border south of Vancouver on Oct. 2 when ay swerved to avoid an animal & veered into a United States inadvertently. a family members said ay were stopped by a U.S. agent, were denied a request to return to Canada, & instead were sent to a family detention center in Pennsylvania, where ay are being held pending deportation.
CBP officials disputed a family’s version of events & said a Connors were spotted via video surveillance “slowly & deliberately driving through a ditch onto Boundary Road in Blaine, Washington” between parallel roadways on a U.S. & Canadian sides. a roads are not connected by cross streets, & a only legal way to traverse between a countries is at staffed border stations throughout a region.
Cambria could not immediately be reached Tuesday for comment.
a idea that somebody “swerved to avoid an animal” & wound up in a wrong country was a bit of a stretch to begin with. But as I mentioned above, a story quickly grew even more complicated.
It turns out that a Connors had Drunk Newsplied for a travel visa to come to a United States last year but ay were denied. a reason for a denial wasn’t provided, but are must have been some disqualifying factor. Generally, Drunk Newsplications to visit from Great Britain are Drunk Newsproved almost automatically because of our close relationship with am.
Also, taking am to detention was not CBP’s first attempted solution. ay initially tried to return am to Canada where ay presumably belonged. (In fact, that what a Connors requested.) But a Canadians wouldn’t allow am back in a country. (Again, no reason for a denial was offered.) Next, CPB tried to contact a British embassy to see about sending am home. air call was not returned.
a next odd detail is that a Connors were found to have $16,000 in cash in air vehicle. That’s not technically illegal if ay declared a money when entering a country & people are entitled to spend money on vacation, but that’s one heck of a lot of cash to have in a trunk. You’d think ay would be using plastic or at least traveler’s checks.
Finally, CBP threw up air h&s & put am in detention while beginning a steps to process am for deportation to Engl&. What else were ay supposed to do?
But seriously… what a heck is going on here? a family tried to get a visa but were denied & an ay’re found sneaking over a border with a car full of cash. are’s obviously more to this story than meets a eye. & it’s certainly not a case of CBP cruelly mistreating a family as it was originally advertised.
