The teens claimed CBP targeted them because they hadn’t booked hotels for their entire stay in Hawaii.

“They found it suspicious that we hadn’t fully booked our accommodations for the entire five weeks in Hawaii,” Pohl said. “We wanted to travel spontaneously. Just like we had done in Thailand and New Zealand.”

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    They’re lucky they were sent home instead of to an El Salvador concentration camp.

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        It likely saved them, but being white still doesn’t guarantee your safety from the US gulags.

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          are you implying that fascists might not be reliable?

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        I’ve been seeing a lot of reports lately of white people getting screwed over like this. They all had one thing in common: women traveling without male company.