A Window on Inhuman Detention

http://solidarity-us.org/atc/193/p5243/
Date Written:  2018-03-01
Publisher:  Against the Current
Year Published:  2018
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX23286

A first-hand account of the inhumane conditions of immigration detention by a Korean woman seeking asylum in the US.

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I still don't know exactly why I was selected out for an extensive search and interview at the San Francisco airport when I arrived in April 2017. [She was able to travel to the United States without a tourist visa for a 90-day period.] The Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers that apprehended me treated me disrespectfully, asking intrusive but unrelated questions about the purpose of my visit....

When I was told that I would be sent back to Korea, I told them that I did not want to go back because I came to the United States to escape my abusive father. So, they told me to apply for asylum. I didn't know what it would entail, but I followed their instruction.

The result was that I was sent to a detention center. I later found out that I could have been given humanitarian parole instead of detention, but since the Trump administration [took over], most of those in similar situations as me have been detained.