Fabian Schmidt was arrested and interrogated at the Boston airport, according to his mother and partner. They say they don't know why he is being held in an ICE facility.

Summary

U.S. immigration authorities detained Fabian Schmidt, a 34-year-old German national and legal U.S. resident, at Boston Logan Airport on March 7.

He was interrogated, hospitalized, and later transferred to an ICE detention facility in Rhode Island. His family, unaware of any legal issues, has hired a lawyer.

Schmidt had recently traveled to Germany and was returning home to New Hampshire. His case raises concerns amid Trump’s stricter immigration policies.

The German embassy is monitoring the situation but has not disclosed details. ICE has not commented.

      • @jonne@infosec.pub
        33•1 day ago

        My guess is they trawled his social media and saw he posted something about Palestinians deserving to be treated as humans.

        • @Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works
          7•1 day ago

          Yep. Remember folks, they will search your phones. I imagine as the fascist regime grows they will eventually be black-holing any and all dissenters of the rapist felon nazi occupying the whitehouse.

          • @jonne@infosec.pub
            4•1 day ago

            Ever since the Bush years, the Supreme Court held that the 4th amendment doesn’t apply for border crossings. And again, nobody did anything to try and overturn that.

            The border also extends to 100 miles from the actual borders, so like 80% of Americans are basically permanently under the jurisdiction of border patrol.

      • VoytrekkEnglish
        13•1 day ago

        My wife was about to leave to visit Canada soon. Might be time to rethink that trip.

    • @halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9•1 day ago

      Clearly it’s because they stopped him to verify he was a Nazi. When it became obvious he wasn’t, everything else is the natural response of the ICE immune system of course. Purging anything non-Bald Eagle Screeching Aryan.

    • azuthEnglish
      3•1 day ago

      And in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People on the Face of the Earth.

      Benjamin Franklin, delusionally Anglo supremacist and US God founding father