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Welcome to America - Part Two

VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SZ9oj1W ... r_embedded

Thanks to STV Scotland TV for publicizing this story.

Because of widespread and out of control abuses by ICE (Immigration, Customs) and the lack of legal protection for non-citizen travelers, the US is NOT a risk-free place to visit. The bogus "drug war" (ICE is the biggest enabler of the illegal drug trade in the US) and "war on terror" are used to abuse people mercilessly.

http://news.stv.tv/scotland/highlands-i ... ir-ordeal/

Couple's dream road trip in US turns to nightmare after pair are jailed

Barbara Dixon and Richard Cross from Newtownmore were thrown into jail in Texas over a visa blunder.

A Highland couple have told how they were treated as common criminals after a mix up during a dream road trip saw them arrested for being in America illegally.



Barbara Dixon and Richard Cross from Newtonmore were detained in squalid conditions in a high security detention camp in El Paso, in Texas, for five weeks after their 90-day visa ran out.

The couple had spent three months visiting family in the US before travelling to Canada for a short trip and then returning.
Couple's dream road trip in US turns to nightmare after pair are jailed

But as they re-entered America the customs staff forgot to stamp their visa and when armed Border control guards in Texas spotted the error they were remanded.

The pair were then questioned for five hours and then thrown in jail as "illegal aliens".

The couple, who live in Inverness, were eventually deported back to the UK in April and say they plan to file a complaint about their treatment with the UK Foreign Office.

Despite protesting their innocence, the couple were detained in separate dormitories and held like criminals for five weeks.

They were forced to sleep on bare mattresses and use open toilets with fellow inmates, none of whom spoke any English, saying it was like being in a third world country.

Ms Dixon said: “We spent hundred and hundreds of dollars on water and these honey buns which were just full of sugar so I didn’t lose weight but my husband Richard he did.

“I could just see him fading away.â€