{"id":1549,"date":"2025-03-17T18:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T18:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=1549"},"modified":"2025-04-07T19:46:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T19:46:51","slug":"1549","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=1549","title":{"rendered":"Update on tourist detentions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NYT on the detained tourists I&#39;ve been writing about: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/13\/world\/europe\/german-tourists-detained-deported.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/13\/world\/europe\/german-tourists-detained-deported.html<\/a>.\u00a0 Better late than never.\u00a0 The German woman is now back in Germany, but the Welsh tourist is still in detention, AFAIK.\u00a0 I called the UK Embassy in San Francisco, but they are unable to give out information on British nationals due to privacy constraints.\u00a0 I called the ICE number for verification of detention, but the voicemail system I was directed to was full and not accepting more messages.<\/p>\n<p>Update on the update: the letter I sent to the Welsh woman in detention in Tacoma was returned with the words &quot;Not Here&quot; handwritten on the envelope.\u00a0 Looks like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cly67j35y99o\">she was released<\/a> to return home after three weeks in a cell.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#39;t have a US passport, you should not travel to the US at present.\u00a0 Detention is cruel and unpleasant, and for an indeterminate length of time.\u00a0 This warning should be posted as a travel advisory on other countries&#39; government web sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NYT on the detained tourists I&#39;ve been writing about: https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/13\/world\/europe\/german-tourists-detained-deported.html.\u00a0 Better late than never.\u00a0 The German woman is now back in Germany, but the Welsh tourist is still in detention, AFAIK.\u00a0 I called the UK Embassy in San Francisco, but they are unable to give out information on British nationals due to privacy constraints.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1549"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1572,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions\/1572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}