Re Australian man arrested in US for overstaying visa by 90 minutes

["Dave Farber" <dave () farber net>]

Joint blame.  D jf
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Dave Crocker <dcrocker () gmail com>
Date: Tue, May 2, 2017 at 2:21 PM
Subject: Re: [IP] Australian man arrested in US for overstaying visa by 90
minutes
To: <dave () farber net>, ip <ip () listbox com>


On 5/2/2017 10:33 AM, Dave Farber wrote:
>
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/australian-man-arrested-in-us-for-overstaying-visa-by-one-hour-20170501-gvw3yh.html

The headline is nicely misleading, on two counts.

The first is that while the arrest took place 90 minutes into the
'violation', the physical circumstances guaranteed a continuing
violation:  The guy had no way to remedy the problem.

More importantly is that his violation took place in the midst of his
/trying/ to remedy the situation before there was a violation, but
apparently the Canadian government folk balked.

That is, a guy with a visa was attempted to follow the rules but got
caught in a cascading sequence of Canadian and US border staff hiccups.

So the real issue here is not that the US government folk got petty but
that we seem to have such a toxic level of indeterminacy about US border
behavior, all sorts of government folk are behaving erratically.

d/


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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net



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