Becky Burke, a 28-year-old comics artist from Wales, was backpacking her way across North America when she was suddenly stopped and detained by immigration agents for 19 days in an ICE detention center before being sent back to her country on March 19. Uh-oh – must be one of them dangerous illegal criminals we been hearing about… At the end of February Burke had traveled to Seattle with plans to go to Vancouver, in Canada. But Canadian authorities refused her entry, saying she needed to return to the US. There she was held at a detention center in Tacoma, in Washington state.
Welsh tourist held in US was chained like Hannibal Lecter, says family
— Unofficial BBC Top Stories Bot (@bbctopstories.bsky.social) March 20, 2025 at 1:55 AM
From the BBC:
The Northwest ICE Processing Center said in a statement: “All aliens in violation of US immigration law may be subject to arrest, detention and, if found removable by final order, removal from the United States regardless of nationality.”
It said that Ms Burke was repatriated to the UK on March 18 after being detained “related to the violation of the terms and conditions of her admission.”
Apparently, as Burke traveled her way across the U.S., she received free accommodations in exchange for helping host families “around the house,” which her father believes authorities may have suspected broke the terms of her tourist visa. The US State Department says people on visitor visas are prohibited from carrying out “employment” during their stay. Her parents told the BBC their daughter was traumatized after being taken in “leg chains, waist chains and handcuffs,” adding, “She said she could only walk with the support of an ICE officer.”
Good news on a story we have been following – 28-year-old Becky Burke has arrived back at Heathrow and been reunited with her family after three weeks detention in a US immigration facility. pic.twitter.com/7Zrvsn0d7O
— Mark Stone (@Stone_SkyNews) March 18, 2025
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