I am glad #BeckyBurke is home now, but of course a white British national placed in our large immigration prison system is going to be prioritized. Think of all the folks trapped in these oppressive places who receive little to no attention. F--k CBP. F--k ICE.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Does anyone know where and how #BeckyBurke
Is NOW?
All of the posts I find about her are about a month old!
✨🙏✨💙✨
Arizona wildcats women's basketball 🏀 welcome your new head coach #beckyburke #tucsonaz Arizona wildcats #Beardown
The deportation paper Becky signed bans her from the US for the next 10 years. Paul tells me they are going to try to appeal it, but Becky says America isn’t the country she thought it was. Her advice to anyone planning to travel to the US is simply not to go. “First, because of the danger of what could ‘happen to you. And, secondly, do you really want to give your money to this country right now?”
Do not give Gilead your money, whether you are a lone tourist or a nation.
The fascists run that country now. Nobody can protect you from that.
#BeckyBurke #USPOL
The Father of #BeckyBurke has posted about his daughter's ordeal at the hands of #ICE in the #USA. For those who don't know, she was staying with families and travelled to the USA, then to Canada, but when she tried to get back into the states, she was refused entry on the grounds she should /1
“I think this experience will change all of us.” he said. “I don’t think I'm going to say to anyone, ‘that’s it, she’s home, we can lock the door, and this has now gone away’. “This will never go away, and what we want to do is to warn other young people, and anyone planning to travel to the US, to be extra careful and to check and double-check their visa requirements.”
She wanted to travel to the US for the experience and they tortured her for it, like thousands of others.
All our governments say is "It's their own fault basically, do as you're told"
Who will go missing next? Will UKGOV give a single fuck?
#BeckyBurke
They had her in chains like Hannibal Lector, and her crime was doing the dishes at a house she was staying at.
This is how America treats it's guests.
www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/r...
#BeckyBurke #ICE #Fascism #UK
Kinda wish the UK's Travel Advisory on the US was a bit more than "if you break any laws, of which there are many, it's probably your own fault for not doing as you are told"
Reminder Becky Burke (who is safely back in the UK now) was disappeared for the crime of "doing the dishes at a house […]
Alt-text: A person in a blue hood and gray beanie with text overlay about their situation. Transcribed Text: This is Becky Burke, a 28-year-old British cartoonist and backpacker. She was on a back packing tour of North America when she crashed into Trump’s immigration pogroms. Her father writes: "Our daughter Becky, a tourist, has been caught up in the recent immigration crackdown in the US. What was meant to be a life-changing four-month backpacking trip across North America has turned into a nightmare. Despite being a tourist with no criminal record, she was handcuffed and taken to a detention facility in Tacoma, Washington. Her current conditions are deeply concerning. She is sharing a cell, surviving on a diet of cold rice, potatoes, and beans (she is vegan), and has limited access to phone calls. We are doing everything we can. But progress has been slow. Becky is a kind, adventurous young woman who simply wants to return home to her family."
Another case of a #tourist being detained by #ICE !
If you don't have to, don't go near the #border. I'm not victim blaming, just reiterating that it's dangerous to travel to the #usa right now.
I hope #BeckyBurke is home safe and sound right away!
#uspoli
Fortunately, #BeckyBurke situation has been resolved?
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If it can happen to #BeckyBurke, it can happen to anyone.
With, I suspect, significant additional risks for those who are not white Europeans.
America is no longer a safe place to travel.
Becky Burke has finally been released, for the crime of 'doing the dishes while staying with a family'
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/18/brit...
DO NOT VISIT GILEAD
#BeckyBurke #USPOL #ICE
Visiting the United States right now is very risky. Details here. take-note.ca/2025/03/12/p... #travel #humanrights #ICE #detentions #donaldtrump #beckyburke #MahmoudKhalil #immigration
Canada denied Becky entry and when she tried to return to the U.S., she was refused re-entry and classified as an "illegal alien."
Canadian officials were concerned she planned to work in the country illegally. The US should have allowed her to return to her homeland, the UK.
#BeckyBurke 🇬🇧
A British citizen is drawing portraits for food while in an ICE detention center in Tacoma WA. She’s vegan and not getting the food she needs.
Becky Burke was a tourist whose dream backpacking trip turned into a nightmare when she tried to leave the US via Canada.
#BeckyBurke 🇬🇧 #ResistTyranny
Becky Burke still hasn't been released, Jessica Brösche still hasn't been released although that was promised, hundreds of people are going missing in America every week due to ICE, but because these people aren't rich, governments won't give a fuck.
Do not travel to the United States. You are […]
An ofrenda style memorial for immigrants who have died while in the custody of ICE and GEO Group at the NWDC
I don’t photograph people at rallies but here’s a nice shot of the pop-up memorial for those who have passed away within the walls of the NWDC
#BeckyBurke #FreeThemAll
…be angrier that a young brown Spanish-speaking woman is being held there without access to medical care even tho she’s 3 months pregnant. I heard her speak via the prison phone into a mic at a rally held by @laresistencianw.bsky.social a couple weeks back; if you have cash … #BeckyBurke
The NW Detention Center is run by GEO Group, notorious for making profits by not hiring staff to cook or clean in their prisons. Instead they make the prisoners do it for slave wages. If it makes you angry that a nice white lady hiker is in there, please … #BeckyBurke
The BBC understands all 23 crew on board the Stena Immaculate are Americans. They are all in Grimsby and are likely to be repatriated in due course.
Not until the Americans release Becky Burke.
Two can play at that game Gilead....
#BeckyBurke #StenaImmaculate #Hull #ICE
Fact Check: British Tourist Becky Burke WAS Detained By ICE At US-Canada Border
#CheckTok #FactCheck #BeckyBurke #ICE #USCanadaBorder #Tourist #British
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Since ICE has no qualms about separating children from their parents, bringing your kids on a @workaway holiday is not recommended. #Workaway customer #BeckyBurke is now in detention with no timeline for getting out.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Yep. And there's this. 👇
UK citizen #BeckyBurke has spent 10 days so far in an ICE detention center!!!!😰
Can you imagine the impact this one story will have?! Billions of dollars!
Tourism operators: Have fun!
www.theguardian.com/uk-new,s/202...
41m ago 16.40 GMT Almost a third of Britons now see US as unfriendly or threat to UK, poll suggests Almost a third of Britons (30%) now see the US as either a hostile threat (11%) or unfriendly (19%) to the UK, according to polling by YouGov. When Joe Biden was president, only about one person in 10 had a negative view of the Us. 53% of Britons see the US as an ally or friendly rival to the UK and other European countries, down from 67% in December and the lowest level since YouGov began asking the question Friend and ally: 33% (-9 from 28-30 Dec) Friendly rival: 20% (-5) Unfriendly: 19% (+10) Hostile... pic.twitter.com/zT5hFidfly — YouGov (@YouGov) March 10, 2025
No ally to us, wake up and see what's happening Britain.
Read about Becky Burke.
#UKPOL #UKPolitics #USPOL #BeckyBurke
The Brit Becky Burke, has been arrested by Gilead for the crime of "helping out around the house in which she was staying" ie: being a good house guest.
That's against American rules, so she's in a prison camp now.
This is America. It hates us, it hates people who are good houseguests, which […]
Thinking about all those British youths that go over to the US to be Summer Camp counsellors and how this year some of them will go missing for 'visa reasons' and they'll have the worst experience of their lives while the company that operates it will be giving absolutely no fucks what happens […]
Ms Burke's family have been in touch with Monmouthshire MP Catherine Fookes, ‘who has raised the case with Foreign Secretary David Lammy and Foreign Office minister Stephen Doughty. "Tam deeply concerned about my constituent's welfare and the distress this situation is causing her and her family," said Ms Fookes. The MP said her team have been in regular contact with the FCDO and other relevant authorities to "press for urgent action". The FCDO confirmed it was supporting a British national detained in the United States and were "in contact with the local authorities".
Sounds like bullshit to me. I swear Lammy is a CIA asset, spent time in America as a young man, somebody paid for it....
#BeckyBurke #UKPOL #UKpolitics #USPOL
Ms Burke had organised some of her trip through Workaway, which matches hosts ‘with travellers. A spokesperson for the company said it was "very sad" to hear about what had happened but that it was "the responsibility of the host and person travelling to make sure they are within the law, have the correct visa or permit and insurance in place before travelling".
American Agency: "Tough shit, she's a Foreigner and deserves what happens to her. I WANT MONEY! GOD AND GUNS! LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME!"
What an ugly and predatory culture....
#Workaway #USPOL #BeckyBurke #UKPOL #UKPolitics
The dad said, as their family is not American, they cannot add money to Ms Burke's inmate account for her to buy essentials, so they have reached out to some American friends to help. Mr Burke said his daughter just wants to come home and has asked for voluntary departure but it has been "radio silence". The family have been told voluntary departure has to be approved by a judge, but added they do not know "how to make that happen".
Don't anybody from the British consulate or anything help this British citizen, clearly that's not their job /s
This is exactly what happened to Jessica Brosche as well, they're using arcane 'visa rules' to disappear any foreigner coming across the border […]
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