UK Tourist Was Chained By ICE “Like Hannibal Lector”

The BBC reports:

A tourist held in the US for 19 days was removed in chains like Hannibal Lecter, according to her parents. Becky Burke, 28, arrived home in Wales on Tuesday from her ordeal which began half way through a backpacking trip across North America. Parents Paul and Andrea Burke, of Portskewett, Monmouthshire, said their daughter was “traumatised” after being taken in “leg chains, waist chains and handcuffs”.

Ms Burke’s detention came as what her family think was a misunderstanding of her accommodation arrangements. She got free accommodation 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.

Read the full article. Burke says she was forced to wear the same clothes for all 19 days she was locked up.