German tattoo artist Jessica Brösche on the lens of photographer Thorsten Briese.
Holidays in the US eventually became a nightmare for German tattoo artist Jessica Brösche who has been detained for about a month in immigration services facilities.
Jessica, who is a native of Berlin, Germany, was in the US for some three -week vacation. But he took the opportunity to travel to Mexico with an American friend, Nikita Lofving, who is a clothing designer in Los Angeles.
It was on the return to the US, through the border of San Diego, that was eventually detained by immigration servicesthe so -called Ice, on the 25th of January.
“They took her right in front of me as we walked,” says Nikita Lofving in statements to.
“Two hours passed, and then she called me and said, ‘I’ll be Deported back to Germany“The clothing designer reports, noting that her friend promised to call her when she arrived at her homeland within” a few days. “
But, past More than a monthJessica continues at the Detention Center waiting for deportation.
But why was the German tourist detained?
Jessica entered the US with a seen this (Electronic System for Travel Authorization), an electronic system that allows citizens from countries participating in the Visa Exemption Program (Visa Waiver Program), as is the case with Germany, traveling to the US in tourism, business or traffic for up to 90 days.
Nikita Lofving explains to the channel that her friend told her that Ice agents accused of “working” in the USA. The two friends would be traveling with tattooing material.
The clothing designer also reveals to CNN that immigration officials may have noticed her friend bad when she said she was going to get a tattoo in Los Angeles.
“She came to work, but Not really for money“, Nikita Lofving assures CNN, stressing that the two have” an agreement between artists. ” “We are working on this tattoo project on my body Five or six years ago and, in return, I make clothes for her, ”he says.
Jessica is “desperate”
In a telephone interview with 10News channel, Jessica says that is “desperate” And guarantees that he was in solitary confinement for eight days. It was horrible, ”he laments.
The friend says Jessica told her that it was “Like a horror movie” and that “after nine days, it was so crazy that began to punch the walls and got blood on their fingers. ”
However, an element of the company that manages the ICE detention center where Jessica is, belies that the institution has even confinement spaces.
“Unusual” and “extremely worrying”
The president of the American Association of Immigration Lawyers, Jeff Joseph, tells CNN that he does not understand why the German tattoo artist has been detained for so long, considering that it is a “quite unusual” case and “Extremely worrying”.
Usually, when entry into the US is denied to a tourist, it can simply remove the intention to enter the country. “Instead of undergoing deportation procedures, It is allowed to go back For the plane, turning and going home, and that doesn’t seem to have happened in this case, ”laments the lawyer.
“I don’t understand why it is taking so long to return to Germany,” says Jessica.
However, Nikita Lofving reveals on her Instagram profile that her friend has a scheduled trip to Germany to March 11.
