Dan Hughes sez,
This just hit the wire about
my brother, who works *for* Homeland Security, and his fiancée who was
incarcerated on Yom Kippur last week *by* Homeland Security. The story broke on
the front page this morning.Beate (Bay – ah – tah), Trevor's fiancée, was returning to the US from Germany.
She had interviewed with career diplomats at the American Embassy just weeks
before and was granted a 6-month visa. Nevertheless, when she landed in Atlanta
she was interrogated for six hours, led away in handcuffs with criminals,
booked into the Atlanta prison system (finger prints, mug shots and a group
cell) and the next day was placed in solitary confinement in a white room with
nothing save a toilet. She was left without food for 20+ hours and finally
deported to Germany. The whole time being told that she was not a criminal, nor
suspected of any crime!
(Thanks, Dan!)
