Teenage German tourists were handcuffed and deported from Hawaii instead of “suspicious” hotel bookings
Two global German teenagers were subverted when they were denied entry into the United States and detained by border officers, calling their trip “suspicious”, a report said.
Charlotte Pohl, 19, and Maria Lepère, 140 miles north of Berlin, have visited New Zealand and Thailand after graduating from high school.
According to German newspapers Ostsee Zeitung.
Pohl and Lepère were interrogated for hours at Honolulu International Airport and allegedly performed body scans and stripping searches after U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents eventually refused entry to the country and said they would be deported, according to the store.
“It's all like a fever dream,” Lepoel said. “We've noticed what's going on in the United States, but at the time, we didn't think it happened to the Germans. It's maybe naive. We feel so small and powerless.”
according to The rhythm of Hawaii.
“They found that we hadn't booked our accommodation for five weeks throughout Hawaii, which was doubtful,” Pohl said. “We wanted to travel spontaneously. Just like we did in Thailand and New Zealand.”
Pohl and Lepère said they were handcuffed and given green prison uniforms.
Two German tourists said they were aerial views of people wearing prison uniforms (Getty Images)
The women said they were placed in a cell next to other detainees charged with serious crimes. The teenagers accused them of spending the night in a frozen double cell.
On March 19, young travelers were allegedly brought back to Honolulu International Airport in handcuffs and asked to be taken to Tokyo, Japan.
Three days after their arrest, they returned to Tokyo, Qatar and Frankfurt AM's return to Rostock. Ostsee Zeitung.
The German Foreign Ministry told the media that it was involved in the case of Pohl and Lepere and provided consular support based on their experience.
The office reminds travelers that ESTA approval does not guarantee entry to the United States – the remaining decision on border officials upon arrival.
Germany updated its travel consultation with the United States last month under Donald Trump's border crackdown, with some tourists turbulent experiences in the country.
It stressed that visa or entry exemption does not guarantee entry into the country after a German national recently detained at the border.
Western European tourists experienced a 12% drop in total in March, one of the largest tourists outside the pandemic, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Tourism and Tourism Agency.
The decline in visitors to the United States fell sharply last month, with visitors down more than 28% next month compared to the same period last year.
independent For more information, the CBP and the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs have been contacted.
