{"id":291374,"date":"2016-09-03T16:51:20","date_gmt":"2016-09-03T20:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=291374"},"modified":"2021-01-09T16:57:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T21:57:33","slug":"media-blackout-brazilian-teen-travelers-detained-unlawfully-in-us-for-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/media-blackout-brazilian-teen-travelers-detained-unlawfully-in-us-for-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Media blackout: Brazilian teen travelers detained unlawfully in US for weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
Boycott tourism in the US.<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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The United States media seldom discusses Brazilian migration to the United States, mostly because of the relatively small number of immigrants flowing into the country each year.<\/p>\n

In 2014, one percent of the 42.4 million immigrants in the country\u00a0were from Brazil. Among the 336,000 Brazilians living in the United States at the time, about one-third had remained in the country without authorization, meaning roughly 100,000 Brazilian immigrants were \u201cundocumented.\u201d<\/p>\n

But reports related to Brazilian visitors being detained at U.S. airports have been making the rounds abroad, prompting many to ask whether U.S. officials changed their policies.<\/p>\n

In the past six months, the Brazilian press reports, at least three teenagers have been detained while traveling unaccompanied to the United States. The last three cases, the country\u2019s most popular news organization reports, involved teens who traveled to America assuming they had all the documentation required to enter the country as tourists. But once they arrived, they were stopped and detained without being promptly given a reason for the alleged incarceration.<\/p>\n

In the most publicized\u00a0case, 16-year-old Anna St\u00e9fane Radeck from Embu-Gua\u00e7u, S\u00e3o Paulo was on her way to Orlando, Florida to visit her aunt when the authorities questioned her about traveling outside of Brazil on her own. After spending ten hours in a room inside the Detroit airport, the teen was then transferred to a shelter for illegal migrant minors in Chicago, Illinois. \u00a0The girl\u2019s mother, Liliane Carvalho\u00a0said\u00a0her daughter was ordered to wear a uniform and was then subjected to a string of vaccinations.<\/p>\n

The foreign teenager was only allowed to call her family three days after being detained.
\nWhen she finally talked to her mother, she claimed she did not know why she had been detained. The girl told her mother authorities gave her ten vaccines at the shelter. Reporters did not say whether or not Carvalho was asked to authorize these procedures beforehand.<\/p>\n

Overall, the teenager stayed 20 days in the shelter for illegal immigrants in Chicago \u2014 despite having authorization to travel from both the United States and Brazilian governments.<\/p>\n

On August 30th, the teen was\u00a0finally allowed\u00a0to leave the shelter with a promise from U.S. authorities that she was allowed to return to America \u201cwhenever and as many times as she pleases.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the court hearing prior to the girl\u2019s release, the judge apologized to Radeck and her mother \u201con behalf of the American government over the incident.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Radeck\u2019s attorney, Ana Paula Dias Marques, the United States\u00a0is allowed\u00a0to revoke entry authorization from anyone, even if the individual in question has a visa stamp on their passport. But according to protocol, persons who lose their authorization to remain in the country are placed on the next flight back. Neither detention nor vaccination are required.<\/p>\n

While Radeck is now free, Miss Brazil Model 2015 Lilian Matte\u00a0remains\u00a0in a shelter in Chicago.<\/p>\n

The 17-year-old was also detained after authorities claimed she was not allowed to enter because she was a minor traveling without a parent or a guardian. She remained in the Miami, Florida airport between August 22 and 24 before she was transferred to the Chicago shelter.<\/p>\n

But according to the Miss Brazil\u2019s mother, Anaide Matte, there\u2019s more to this story. \u201cShe was detained because she took a \u2018selfie\u2019 in a restricted area in the airport,\u201d Matte\u00a0told\u00a0Globo. \u201c[O]fficials didn\u2019t like it and, while they checked her documents, they decided to arrest my daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n

Matte was on her way to the United States from Venezuela to try to retrieve her daughter from the shelter earlier this week. She\u00a0told reporters\u00a0she contacted Radeck\u2019s mother to learn more about her own experience with the American authorities.<\/p>\n

In May, another teenager went through a similar situation.<\/p>\n

Seventeen-year-old Anna Beatriz Theophilo Dutra\u00a0was detained\u00a0by immigration officials in Detroit, where she was allegedly accused of \u201cbeing an illegal immigrant, of having entered the country to meet men and of also having the wrong visa.\u201d According to Dutra\u2019s mother, authorities lied. She was released after spending two weeks in the Chicago detention.<\/p>\n

No news sources in America seem to have picked up any of these stories.<\/p>\n

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