News story about my friends Beate and Trevor
Turned Away at the Border
The love story of Trevor Hughes and his fiancee began in an elementary school in the Himalayan foothills.
They were "global nomads." He was a diplomat's son. She the daughter of missionaries. They lived in Asia, attended school together, fell in love and want to get married in June.
But when Hughes' fiancee, a German national, tried to visit him on a six-month tourist visa Monday, she was detained in Atlanta, handcuffed, jailed--even stripped of her diamond engagement ring.
Then, after 20 hours without food, she was put on a plane and shipped back to Stuttgart.
"This isn't the America I fought for," said Hughes, who served in the Navy and U.S. diplomatic corps. "You don't expect that from a great country like ours."
Beate has a blog covering her ordeal at: .
LandoftheFree.blogspot.com
Turned Away at the Border
The love story of Trevor Hughes and his fiancee began in an elementary school in the Himalayan foothills.
They were "global nomads." He was a diplomat's son. She the daughter of missionaries. They lived in Asia, attended school together, fell in love and want to get married in June.
But when Hughes' fiancee, a German national, tried to visit him on a six-month tourist visa Monday, she was detained in Atlanta, handcuffed, jailed--even stripped of her diamond engagement ring.
Then, after 20 hours without food, she was put on a plane and shipped back to Stuttgart.
"This isn't the America I fought for," said Hughes, who served in the Navy and U.S. diplomatic corps. "You don't expect that from a great country like ours."
Beate has a blog covering her ordeal at: .
LandoftheFree.blogspot.com
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That's fucked. Iit is a different country then it was four or five years ago. It's a country where fear rules (perpetrated by the government and the media) and no one is allowed to contradict our president in the public eye or they are crucified (see Dixie Chicks). I served in the Army. I went to battle twice, and in this big Bush-loving state, I can't be against a war or criticize our beloved president without backlash. As long as there is this ever-present fear, and people believe that we are always in danger of another attack, I suppose that our government can do whatever they want, whenever they want. And I'm pissed.
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It's going to be a while before publishing, like six months they say.